Tales of the Mines. the Little Diggers
To die when young is to escape. A thousand [?] and woes: From love and hate and care set free, From heartless friends and [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1878
64 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 4
The Barrington Gold Field
Mr. Fletcher, of Branxton, who has just returned from a visit to the Barrington gold field at Back Creek, has favoured us with the following information with reference to the crushings…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Mining Accideat at Ballarat
A terrible accident (reports the Melbourne Age) occurred on Saturday, at the [?]im of the Britannia Quartz Company, Ballarat East by which two miners, William Martin and Michael Devine, were…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fatal Mining. Accident at Ballarat
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the claim of the Britannia Quarts Company, Ballarat East, by which two miners, William Martin and Michael Divine,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold on the Old Eureka Reef
The Minister for Mines has forwarded to the Herald the following copy of an official letter just received by him:— "Mining Registrar's Office, Hargraves,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Newcastle Coal Trade
IT has been stated that the associated colliery owners concerned in the Newcastle trade have determined to end the agreement under which 14[?]. per ton is now the soling price…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Late Fatal Occurrence at the Lambton Colliery. Corner's Inquest
Yesterday forenoon Mr. T. W. Pearse, Coroner, proceeded to Lambton to hold an inquest on the bodies of Thomas M. Seymour, manager at the Lambton Colliery, and a young man named Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lamentable Accident at Lambton Colliery. the Manager and an Overman Suffocated by Choke Damp
On Tuesday evening, reports the Newcastle Pilot of yesterday, there was much excitement in town, caused by the circulation of a report, which unfortunately proved only too true, to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Fatal Occurrence at the Lambton Colliery. Coroner's Inquest
The inquest on the bodies of Thomas Martyn Seymour, manager of the Lambton Colliery, and Robert Brown, miner, who were suffocated at the Lambton Colliery on Tuesday last, was resumed by the coroner, Mr. T. W. Pearce, yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bag of Gold. Author of "Scripopolis."
THE Rev. Bayar Barry was the sole representative of the Roman Catholic faith in the wild and mountainous district of Jimbellico, an isolated stretch of country in one of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Gold from the Barrington. Gloucester
Five hundred ounces of gold from the Barrington, the result of a crushing from No. 1 Prospecting Claim, of one hundred and twenty-nine tons of stuff' passed through here for the southward, to-day'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tales of the Mines. the Little Diggers. (Concluded from Supplement 83.)
OVER two years have elapsed since we left the little diggers in the charge of Jack the Blower. Vast changes have taken place in Sandy [?]reek. The alluvial claims have all…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reported Gold on the Manning. [Telegram to the "Mercury."] Tinonee
It is reported that a party has been fitted out by public subscription in Tinonee for the purpose of prospecting the district for gold. Sufficient colours have been obtained to encourage the undertaking…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Gold from the Barrington. [Telegram to the "Mercury."] Gloucester
Three hundred ounces of gold, the result of a crushing of one hundred and ten tons of stone from the Hidden Treasure, passed through Gloucester to-day, under police protection…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Barrington Gold Fields. [From a Correspondent.] Gloucester. Wednesday evening, received 8.38
It is reported that a crushing of fifteen tons of stone from the Rainbow Prospecting Claim have turned put eighty-nine ounces of gold, A new reef has been discovered on the Bowman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Price of Coal at Newcastle
Some little time ago we wrote on this-subject, and saw in the course of our remarks that we had not been able to learn how the matter stood. It appears, however, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tales of the Mines. on the Road to Bendigo. an Incident at Mount Macedon
"WERE there any bushrangers in Victoria?" said the old pioneer, as we sat in our hotel. a few days since. " Were there ? I should say so. Why, I came across three of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →California Agriculture Versus Mining
New York, August 24.—The Times says: Despite the immense yield of gold in California, it is now shown that her tillable soil produces more, actual wealth than her richest mines. Her grain and her fruit exceed in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Selling Arrangements at Newcastle
The following circular explains more clearly than we have yet had it, the arrangement made at Newcastle for selling coal: —Newcastle, New South Wales, 4th…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Maitland Mercury. Thursday, November 14, 1878. Coal-selling Arrangements at Newcastle
A[?] CIRCULAR, issued by the secretaries of the Coal-miners' Mutual Protective Association, has been read by us with great pleasure. Friendly in spirit, it is wise in suggestion,…
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