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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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Mining Accidents. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 March 1893 · page 3

Silas May, a marned maa with a family, was attending to an air compressor in Lansell's 222 mine at Bendigo yesterday, when he got his fingers…

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Mining

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 2

Advertiser cable:—A party of Australian miners, who have been prospecting in various parts of Southern America, are reported to be…

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N. S. W. PARLIAMENT. The Coal Mines Bill. Dibbs on the Unemployed. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 4

The Assembly sat well into this morning d-aling with the Coal Mines Regulation Bill, which was passed through committee, the third reading…

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The Metropolitan Colliery. The Finding of the Arbitration Court. [By Telegraph.] Sidney

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 2

Some time ago a dispute arose between the owners of the Metropolitan Colliery and the miners, the former having demanded a reduction…

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N. S. W. PARLIAMENT. The Railway Autocrats. The Coal Hines Bill. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 2

It was a very uneventful evening in the Legislative Council. Dr. Bowker found his long-sought opportunity to move a motion in favor of the release…

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Robbing Mines

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 1

THE other day oar Melbourne correspondent told us that several robberies and attempted robberies of gold from mines ia the Bendigo district had…

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Miners' Eight Hours. The Coal Hines Bill. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Friday Evening

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 2

As reported earlier to-day, Mr. Sydney Smith this morning in the Assembly, in committee, got an amendment passed in clause 2 of the Coal…

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Mining

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 3

The following mineral leases are to cancelled on March 24:—G. Griffin, 128, Picton; Corona Silver Mining Company, 10 and 11, Bligh; J. O'Neill,…

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Barrier Miner. Saturday, March 18, 1893. the Coal Mines Bill and Party Government

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 2

WHAT transpired in the Assembly yesterday morning daring the consideration in committee of the Goal Mines Regulation Bill casts a bright…

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Mining

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 March 1893 · page 2

THE movement, at the British becomes more serious still. We learn now that expenditure to the extent of thousands of pounds has been going on to…

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Fatal Mining Accident. Two Men Killed at the Mount Stewart Mine. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 March 1893 · page 4

A telegram just received from Mudgee reports a very sad fatal accident at the Mount Stewart mine, in that locality. Two men named…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Perth

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 March 1893 · page 2

The Fraser's South, Yilgarn, has crushed 24 tons for 124oz. gold, and the Fraser's 115 tons for 229oz. Immense reductions of boots and…

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Floods in the Islands. Squalls of Resistless Violence. New Caledonia Swept. Mines Swamped, Plantations Destroyed. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 March 1893 · page 2

News has just been received by steamer here from the Islands of great destruction of property and acute distress caused by remarkable…

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"Better Than Gold." The Tyson Drink Cure. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 March 1893 · page 2

Some valuable light is thrown upon the much advertised Luther B. Tyson's "Better-than-gold" Drink "Cure" by the evidence tendered at the inquest…

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Mining on Private Property The Council's Rejection of the Bill. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 March 1893 · page 4

It is not often that the Legislative Council comes in for such general emphatic condemnation as it is doing to-day over its contemptuous rejection…

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Mining on Private Property. The Bill Rejected by the Council. The Division List. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 March 1893 · page 2

The Mining on Private Property Bill came on for its second reading in the Legislative Council last evening; and, as was anticipated in political…

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Mining

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 March 1893 · page 3

The first annual meeting of the Rutland Flux and Tramway Co. is to be held in Melbourne on April 12 "(1) to accept the report and balance sheet,"…

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Fatal Mine Accident. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 March 1893 · page 4

Samuel Rule, a miner, employed at Lucknow, near Orange, was engaged timbering, when a quantity of rock fell upon him and killed him…

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Mining on Private Property. The Government Questioned. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 March 1893 · page 2

Mr. Angus Chapman asked, in the Legislative Assembly last night, in view of the fact that the Legislative Council had thrown out the Mining on…

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Mining on Private Property The Council's Rejection of the Bill. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 March 1893 · page 1

It is not often that the Legislative Council comes in for such general emphatic condemnation as it is doing to-day over its contemptuous rejection…

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