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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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Barrier Miner. Monday, January 23, 1893. Mines Taxation Again

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 January 1893 · page 2

ONE result of the taxation of the mines for municipal purposes in the manner provided by law does not appear to be so well understood and remembered as…

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Peak Hill. a Warning to Miners

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 January 1893 · page 2

MR. JOHN O'SHANNESSY, president of the Peak Hill branch of the Miners' Association, this morning telegraphed to the MINER as follows:—"Miners…

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The Lead Board. Mr. Thomas' Exclusion from the Mines. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 January 1893 · page 2

In the Assembly last evening Mr. W. A. Murphy (Balmain) asked the Premier—1. Whether he was aware that one of the members of the…

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Terrible Mining Disaster. The Walls of a Shaft Fall In. Numbers of Men Entombed. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 January 1893 · page 2

News has just been received of a terrible mining calamity at Aberdare, in South Wales. It appears, from the particulars so…

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Gold Leases

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 January 1893 · page 3

A RETURN showing the gold leases in force in New South Wales at the end of the year has been prepared. The only gold leases held at Broken Hill,…

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Warden's Court. The Block 14 Maybell Mine

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 January 1893 · page 4

MR. A. N. BARNETT delivered judgment in the Warden's Court thia afternoon in the case of Phiiip Eddy v. George Lewis, in which Messrs. W. Welsh and Justin…

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Eva's Experience. [Written for the Barrier Mines by A. J.] Chapter I.

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 January 1893 · page 4

MY landlady had just left me, and the horror of my position was forcing itself upon me alone in the world, with not a friend to whom I could turn, and well…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Proprietary Company. Half-Yearly Meeting

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 January 1893 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday Evening. The half-yearly general meeting of shareholders in the Broken Hill Proprietary was held this afternon, Mr…

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The Smelting Returns. The Week's Work at the Mines

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 January 1893 · page 4

FOLLOWING are the smelting ead other return from the undermentioned mines for the past week:— BLOCK 14 —14,848oz. Average [?]ilver…

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Colliery Explosion. Terrible Loss of Life. Scenes at the Pit's Mouth. The Gendarmes Reinforced. [By Cable] London

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 January 1893 · page 2

A terrible disaster, due to an explosion of fire damp, has occurred in a colliery at Teplitz, Bohemia, a German province of Austria. A large number…

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Mining Fatality. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 January 1893 · page 2

A fatal mining accident occurred at the North Old Chum mine, Bendigo, yesterday. John Grant and James Quick were working in the stopes at…

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The Mines Assessments. The Legal Opinion. The "Miner's" Copy a True One

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 January 1893 · page 2

AT the municipal council meeting last night the question of the assessment of the mines came on for consideration under the orders of the day…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Queensland. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 31 January 1893 · page 2

The Mount Morgan G. M. Co. has declared a dividend of 6d. per share for January. THE Register reports:—"The initial…

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Mining

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 February 1893 · page 2

A mineral lease is ready, for delivery at Silverton to H. Smith, respect of mineral lease 43, Byjerkerno. The detailed returns for Tasmania…

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"Who Is to Boss the Mines?"

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 February 1893 · page 2

WE regret to learn, on what ought to be good authority, that the management of Block 14 has been taken out of the hands of Mr. Z. Lane. We…

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The Lead Board. Its Exclusion from the Mines. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 February 1893 · page 2

In the Assembly last evening Mr. Cann asked the Minister for Mines (Mr. Slattery) if the Department had given authority to the Lead Commission…

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Some New Gold Finds

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 February 1893 · page 4

SOME important discoveries of gold have recently been made in two portions of the American continent—in Utah, between the Rockies and Sierras, it has been…

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Threatened Lockout of Welsh Miners. LONDON, Wednesday Evening

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 February 1893 · page 4

Owing to the determination of the Welsh miners to reject the sliding scale, and join the Miners' Federation of[?] Great Britain, a lockout effac[?]ing 100.000 men is…

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Mining Near Tamworth. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 February 1893 · page 4

Gold-mining in the Trmworth district is "looking up." A telegram from there states that the Storm King has crushed seven tons for 40oz. of retorted gold,…

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The Central. The Rules Adopted. The Directors to Visit the Mine. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Thursday Evening

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 February 1893 · page 4

A special meeting of Central shareholders was held this afternoon to consider a resolution adopting the rules as passed at the general meeting in November last…

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