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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1888

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The Coal Miners' Strike

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 August 1888 · page 2

IN accordance with the resolution arrived at at the meeting of delegates on Saturday, the Newcastle miners gave 14 days' notice on Monday. Both sides are preparing for the coming…

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The Newcastle Colliery Crisis.—declaration of a Strike

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 August 1888 · page 4

MINING matters in the Newcastle district have assumed a most serious aspect, and the result of a ballot—in which 3927 miners recorded. their votes—was in favour of a strike by a…

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Melbourne Without Coal.—A Dreary Picture

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 August 1888 · page 4

THE Melbourne Daily Telegraph of Wednesday Wrote—"It is a doleful effort of the imagination to picture Melbourne fireless and unlighted, the trains moveless on the lines, the…

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The Effects of a Want of Coal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 August 1888 · page 2

THERE is no such thing as a reserve stock of coal at the collieries, the only coal there being "small" coal, which the colliery proprietors will require to keep their pumping engines going…

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The Stoney Creek Mines. Objection Against Registration of a Claim

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 15 August 1888 · page 2

IN the Warden’s Court un Monday morning, before Mr. S. Robinson; P.M., the warden for the district, John Chesworth and party lodged an objection against the registration of Ehrlich and…

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Miners' Wages

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 August 1888 · page 4

THERE is some difference of opinion in regard to the wages which coal-miners receive, or, rather, the wages they make—for they are not paid a weekly wage, but at so much a ton for…

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Fatal Accident in a Mining Shaft

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 August 1888 · page 4

BEGA, Tuesday.—A fatal accident is reported from Tanga. It appears that yesterday afternoon a settler named Neath and his brother-in-law, Thomas Shepherd, who was on a visit to…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 17 August 1888 · page 2

THE silver ore recently discovered in the Braidwood district is believed to be equal to the Broken Hill in richness. A sensational discovery of rich silver is…

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The Coal Trade

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 17 August 1888 · page 2

THE impending strike amongst the colliers in the Newcastle district has drawn forth various comments from the local and metropolitan press. There can be no doubt but that the…

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Broken Hill Silver Mines Town

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 August 1888 · page 3

A CORRESPONDENT writes:—"Anyone who may contemplate coming here to settle may read this short epistle and derive some advantages. I had similar…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 August 1888 · page 7

A GREAT quantity of loading has reached Tarago from Sydney within the past week for the different new mines which are being opened up in this district. Mr. R. Hassall has had a…

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Mining in the Grenfell District. the Local Silver Boom

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 18 August 1888 · page 2

THE excitement over silver finds still continues, though there is evidence of some abatement In some instances supposed finds have been abandoned while in other localities more leases have been…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 August 1888 · page 2

WE have been show a certificate of assay from Messrs. Hodson and Co.'s, Sydney, of are obtained at Ruby Creek, Mount Werong, some 30 miles from Taralga on the Abererombis Ranges…

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Mining in the Grenfell District

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 22 August 1888 · page 4

WE learn from the Vedette that at Sandy Creek the battery is all but complete, and when the needful water comes the result of the crushings will be anxiously looked…

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The Coal Strike

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 August 1888 · page 2

THE S. M. Herald's special reporter at Newcastle telegraphs that the conference between the parties on Wednesday terminated unsatisfactorily, and that the strike now seems certain to…

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 23 August 1888 · page 4

CAPTAIN'S FLAT.—The Koh-i-noor Gold and Silver Mining Company started smelting on Monday, with a fair prospect of success, 150 baks of bullion were ran through by three o'clock on Tuesday. The mine…

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The Day Dawn Gold-Mining Company, Limited

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 August 1888 · page 3

MANAGER'S Report for week ending August 24:—Dam is now completed, also excavations for machine site. Boiler and pumps already here; engine and winding machinery arrive…

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The Miners' Strike

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 August 1888 · page 4

WORK at all the collieries in the Newcastle district co[?]sed on Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The men took away their implements, and the pits were seen deserted. A good deal of…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 August 1888 · page 7

UNLESS the lessees execute and take delivery of the following gold-mining and mineral leases within thirty days from 17th August they will be void and the land open to be taken up by…

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 25 August 1888 · page 3

THE Mount Costigan Lead and Silver-mining Company. Limited, August 22.—Drives: The drive north from B. shaft on western lode is being continued, lode looking well. The drive south on same lode…

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