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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
46 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 3
With the exception of the large find of 345 ounces here already reported in your columns, there is nothing fresh to chronicle from the Hanging Rock or Peel River goldfields. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Ballarat Courier gives the following particulars of the suicide of Mr. Robert Atkinson, manager of several gold companies in that district:—He was missed from home on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following report was adopted at the half-yearly meeting of the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company, held on Wednesday:- The directors have much pleasure in submitting their report…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The director of the United States Mint supplies a report for the year 1880 of the value of the quantity of gold and silver produced in that year throughout the world, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It was 1866, on the evening of a lovely spring day, and my heroine was gathering flowers in one of the loveliest of the lovely gardens of that sea-port city, Norfolk, Virginia…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →All attempts to explain satisfactorily the formation of coal have thus far proved unsuccessful, though it is generally understood that it is the product of the decomposition of vegetable matter. Just how that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Hon. Dr Renwick, Minister [?]or Mines, together with Messrs H. H Brown, R D Murr[?]y, Burdekin, J. Kidd, and J. Cass, members of the Legislative Assembly, arrived here by special train at a quarter to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The latest information received in reference to the condition of the miners at Mount Browne affords evidence of a very considerable amount of distress, and Sir John Robertson, on behalf of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Ministerial party arrived at Tingha, some eighteen miles from Inverell, at eleven o'clock this morning. They were met by the leading mine owners, storekeepers, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Hon. the Minister of Mines (Dr. Arthur Renwick) and party, including the representatives of the metropolitan press, left Inverell at a quarter to eight o'clock this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A few days ago another of those explosive fatalities which have given such unhappy notoriety to the Rhondda valley, occurred at the Coedcae New Steam Coal Pit, situated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is a curious [?] that Russia, one of the [?] of countries, makes a greater [?] of wealth in one respect then any other [?] The domes of all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. J. W. Jones, the Deputy Surveyor-General of South Australia, has returned from his trip to the Queensland goldfields, and furnished some interesting notes of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a time when attention has been specially directed to the position and functions of gold relatively to silver, Borne of the facts connected with its history and distribution among…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"There! I positively hate everybody! there is no one to be trusted; and I'm sure I don't see what use there is in living at all in such a treacherous, miserable world!"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The census of 1880 shows that the decade past is less remarkable for the increase of the country in population, large as that has been, than for the growth of our material…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Waldron, junior, was very like his mother in character—cold, calculating, ambitious. Like her, he continually chafed over the fact that his uncle's money had all been given to his orphan…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"I did not think the girl would hold out like this: she is too obstinate for anything," muttered Mrs. Waldron, as she closed and locked the door after Laura's exit; then going back to the bed she drew…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We reported in our issue of Saturday that John Barker, a miner employed at the Greta Colliery, had been killed by a fall of coal while at work in the pit on the previous day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Have you mentioned your suspicious regarding the manner of Trixy's death to Mr. Sutherland?' Eliot asked. "No, I have told no one but y[?]n, Eliet—not even…
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