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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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The gold-fields elections have been conducted, this time, under rather peculiar circumstances, it appears that the Attorney-General has been consulted upon a somewhat doubtful question…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As might have been expected during the festivities of Christmas, mining operations upon this field have been in abeyance. Hennessy and party have brought to the surface several loads…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On November 15, an explosion took place in No. 5 pit of the Moss Hall Coal Company's collieries, at Platt Bridge, three miles from Wigan. The shaft is two hundred and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The second half-yearly meeting of this company rras held in the City Hall, Newcastle, on Saturday afternoon; F. J. Shaw, Esq., ohairman of the company, occupied the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SIR—Having from time to time noticed in your widely-circulated paper several reports and extracts from other papers on account of the Hulf Gottes mine, I, as a man largely interested…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There is little new to add respecting our goldfields. The Thames exhibits two rather large towns closely adjoining each other, and having a joint population of 22,000. Along…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[Herald.]—The nomination for the election of a member to serve in the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Goldfields electorate, took place to-day. Mr. J. F. Burns was proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The nomination of a member to represent the Northam Gold-fields in the Legislative Assembly in the room of Mr.R. Wisdom, resigned through his electing to sit for the Lower Hunter, took place…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE WEATHER.—More rain fell on Tuesday and Wednesday last, when it cleared off and has continued fine since then. The showers, although pretty heavy, only serve to convert the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An explosion of gunpowder used for sinking at the Morfa Colliery, near Neath, occurred on the 14th February, whereby, as far as can be ascertained, thirteen men were killed, and upwards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE received, on Thursday last, with other Parliamentary papers, the Report of the Examiner of Coal-fields for 1869, which appears elsewhere. In many respects the document is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir—I do myself the honour to forward you herewith the reports of the inspector of collieries (Mr. Thomas Lewis) for the year 1869; and in attention to the request in your letter of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One of our occasional Murrurundi correspondents furnishes us with the following particulars of the new colliery opened near Murrurundi. We should be glad to have any further…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I arrived here half an hour ago. Trunkey coach has just come in. The driver reports that a reef, six feet wide, was discovered yesterday, near Alexandra Reef, about a mile from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AMONGEST the whole range of questions coming under the notice of the Minister for Works, there are probably few, if any, more difficult to settle satisfactorily than those connected with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Discoveries have recently been made in New Mexico which reveal the existence of a vast deposit of silver ore, that is said to surpass, both in quantity and quality, all the stores of this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The half-yearly meeting of the Hulfe Gottes Mining Company was held on Satnrday in the City Hall, Newcastle, Dr. Brookes, M.L.A, in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Your correspondent here has been for some time silent, having nothing of importance to communicate. The heavy rains at the commencement of the winter, put a dead…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have much pleasure in being enabled to lay before our readers the following information with reference to the visit of the Gold Fields Commission in the North. It can be depended…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A singular robbery of gold from passengers on board the ship Kent, on the voyage from Melbourne to London, was before a London police court. The clearest account of the…
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