Mining in New South Wales in 187[?]
We have received the annual report of the Department of Mines for 18[?]6, and purpose to [?]an abstract of its contents. The report is that of the Under-S[?]retary Mr Harrie Wood…
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Mining & the mines, 1877
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The Coal Trade of New South Wales
In a recent issue we gave a summary of Mr. Harrie Wood's report to his principal, the Minister for Mines, upon the condition of the mining industry of the colony generally in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A New Rush in the Mudgee District. Payable Gold Struck. (By Electric Telegraph to the Evening News.) Mudgee, Thursday, 11 a.m
A new rush has taken place to a locality about eighteen miles from this town. Its situation is between Mudgee and Hargraves, and about three miles from Maitland Bar. The prospectors reported in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Hoax at Mudgee. (By electric telegraph to Evening News.) Mudgee, Friday 9 a.m
Our correspondent telegraphs as follows:—I have just returned, with several others, from an inspection of thw alleged new gold field near Maitland Bar. The whole thing was a hoax,…
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The following official report has been politely forwarded to us (Echo) for publication:- [COPY] "Gulgong, 4th June, 1877…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Mining Hoax ax Mudgee. (From the Mudgee Correspondent to the Evening News.) June 8
It will doubtless be a surprise to many of your readers, to learn that the report of pay able gold having been struck at a locality in the auriferous district of Hargraves and Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Inundation of a Colliery Pit. (Home News, April 28.)
On the afternoon of Friday last, April 20, soon after the dispatch of the mail for India, news arrived in London confirming the rumour which had been in circulation at the early part…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, July 3, 1877. the Mining Department
AMONG the many untimely discussions which have delayed the passage of the Estimates for the current year, was the one started by Mr. Cameron, when the Estimates of the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Mining at Glen Morison
A correspondent of the Uralla and Walcha Times writes on June 23:—Mining business is still very dull here Stretton, Kitcher & Co., are at it on the old Star, trying to get a second…
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THE mining industry is not one of those games of which bystanders see the most, and we must confess to a very hazy knowledge of its intricacies and technicalities But certain…
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At the Police Court yesterday, says the Newcastle Herald of Thursday, the above case in which the Government Inspector of Collieries (Mr. Thomas Lewis) summoned William Turnbull for a breach of…
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Yesterday afternoon (says the Herald of Thursday) a depuation of colliery owners and colliery represetives waited upon the Minister for Mines respecting the powers of the Inspector of Colleries under the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Terrible Mining Accident at the Kumara, N. Z. Four Men Buried Alive. (By Electric Telegraph to the Evening News.)
A serious mining accident occurred on the Kumara lead on the 8th instant. Four men have been buried through the ground caving in. The claim was being worked by Cooney, Kelly,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New castle Coal Mining Company. (From the S. M. Herald.)
The first ordinary general meeting, of the above company was held at the head-office, Watt street, Newcastle, on Tuesday forenoon. There waa a good attendance, and Dr. Richard…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Mines, Vegetable Creek, 4th July, 1877. The Directors of the Vegetable Greek Tin Mining Co. (Limited), West Maitland
Glentlemen,—I beg to report upon the Company's operations, at the mines, during the half-year ending 30th July ultimo. At No. 1 mine, the main deposit, we have had to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Raising Gold-bearing Gravel from River Beds
What appears to us an ingenious apparatus for raising gold bearing stuff out of river beds, is described in the Californian papers just to hand by the late mail. It will be remembered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Late Firs at the Anvil Creek Colliery. Resumed Coroner's Inquiry. (From our own Reporter.)
The inquiry touching the origin of the fire which happened in the tunnel of the Anvil Creek Colliery on the 1st August was resumed at half-past nine o'clock on Saturday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Branxton. (From our Correspondent.) Police Court. Thursday, August 30, 1877. (Before Mr. J. N. Brooke. P.M., T. Drinan, R. Wyndham, and G. Wyndham, J.P.'s). Coal Miners' and Colliery Act
WALTER ROURKE summoned Charles Harper for balance of wages due to him, viz., 36s, for Work performed at Greta coal mine. Defendant pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Selling Price of Coal at Newcastle. (From the Newcastle Herald of Thursday.)
On Wednesday, an important conference took place in the A. A. Company's office, Newcastle, between the associated masters and the officers and delegates of the Hunter River Co[?] Miners' Union, for the…
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The Minister for Mines (the Hon E. Baker) has forwarded to us (Echo) for publication, the following official report:— "Dungog, 6th September, 1877…
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