Fatal Mining Accident
The Ballarat Evening Post of the 31st Dec[?] chronicles another of those mela[?]ly occurrences at one of our mining claims, which arc becoming so frequent. The scene of the last fatal…
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Mining & the mines, 1871
43 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 3
Telegraphic News. (From the Sydney Papers.) Gulgong Gold-field. Mudgeo, Thursday, 3 p.m
[Evening News.]—No. 11 North Black Lead struck gold, yielding 4dwt per dish, three-feet wash-dirt. Depth 130 feet. Great activity prevails on this gold-field…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gulgong Gold-fields. Mudgee, Tuesday, 11.30 a.m
[Evening News.]—No[?]. six and ten have struck rich gold. No. eight washed thirty-four loads and got sixty-seven ounces. The existing disputes cannot be settled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic News. (From the Sydney Papers.) Discovery of a New Gold Field
[Evening News.]—We are favoured with the following telegram, received this morning, from F. Dalton, Esq., P M., Forbes, by the hon. the Secretary for Lands, Sydney:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at the Anvil Creek Coal Mine
Last evening, between seven and eight o'clock, the residents of the western end of West Maitland were alarmed by the fire-bell, but there was not any appearance to indicate where…
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In our last issue we briefly recorded the fact that a fire had broken out in the coal mine at Anvil Creek, belonging to Mr. William Farthing, and that the No. 2 engine of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic News. (From the Sydney Papers.) Gold Discovery Near Tenterfield
[Evening News.]—The following telegram received yesterday from G. W. F. Addison, Esq., P.M, Tenterfield, by the Hon. the Minister for Lands, Sydney, has been kindly communicated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Mining Reports
We have lately received, from the Victorian Department of Mines, a copy of the reports of the Mining Surveyors and Registrars under that department, for the quarter ending 31st…
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The District Coroner (Mr. T. W. Pearse) proceeded to Anvil Creek yesterday for the purpose of holding an inquiry into the circumstances attendant upon the recent fire in the coal mine…
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The inquiry into the circumstances attending the recent fire at the Anvil Creek coal mine was resumed yesterday morning at Mr. Drinan's Morning Star Inn, Branxton, before the District…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Aggregate Meeting at Griffith's Flat. (Abridged from the Newcastle Pilot, March 8.)
Yesterday, at noon, a miners' aggregate meeting was held at Griffith's Flat, about eleven hundred of the men being present. Mr. R. Dainty occupied the chair, and opened the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arrival of the Suez Mail. Latest News to February 21. the War Is Over. Peace Restored. Paris Starved Into Capitulation. Prussians to March Through Paris. Armistice, and Terms of Peace Being Arranged. French Assembly Elected, Gambetta Resigned. Theers President of the Republic. England Recognises It. Paris French Army Surrendered. Bourbaki Tried Commit Suicide. Parisian Forts Surrendered. Australian Meat Sent to France. Joint Commission to Settle the American Disputes and Claims. Wool Advancing—sales Opened with Spirit. German Terms—surrender of Forts and Some Country, and Large Indemnity. Proposal to Disestablish Church of England. Fatal Colliery Accidents Colliers' Strike. Maitland Mercury Office, Tuesday morning, March 14
We have just received the following important telegram from our Sydney telegraphic agent. Sydney, Tuesday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Gold Fields. (From a correspondent of the Clarence Examiner.)
LUNATIC AND PERSEVERANCE REEFS—Up till lately a gradual development of these reefs and a gradual increase of population were taking place, but owing to the sensational telegram…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Virginia City Tragedy. (From the Gold Bill News, March 13.)
About two o'clock yesterday morning, Moses Remington, residing with his family, consisting of a wife and four children, on North C. street, Virginia, in a fit of drunken jealousy, attempted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Partnerships
An Act passed this Session, and assented to on Friday, 28th ult., amends and extends the operation of the Act of 1861 for limiting the hability of mining partnerships. It renders the Act of 1861 applicable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, May 20, 1871. the Coal-fields
WE have just received, with other parliamentary papers, Mr. Keene's report upon the condition and prospects of the coal-fields of this colony for the year 1870, and with it the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Water in the Staffordshire Collieries
Both divisions of Staffordshire have for some time past been impeded in their colliery advancement by reason of water in the mines. The Government inspectors in each place have not…
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The subjoined report was brought up by Mr. Lloyd in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday:— The Select Committee of the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Western Coal Mines and the Railway Charges. (From the S. M. Herald.)
In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, Mr. Garrett moved—"That the House resolve itself into Commuittee of the Whole, to consider the petitions of Mr. Andrew M'Cauley…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hulfe Gottes Silver and Lead Mining Co. (Limited.) (From a Newcastle Correspondent.)
It is the intention of this company to erect a concave buddle for the purpose of passing the silver-lead ore through the first process of amalgamation; leaving the retorting process,…
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