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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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During the last few years there has been in France a largely increased utilisation of the above description of coal in the preparation of coke and various sub-products. At one time anthracite, or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—In accordance with your instructions I proceeded to Gunnedah on March, l6th ult., and having inspected the coal seam on Mr. J. Pryor's selection I have the honour to report as follows:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are indebted to Mr. J. P. Abbott, M. P. for Gunnedah, for the following copy of Mr. David's report on the Gunnedah coal seam. Mr. Abbort writes us:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EARN money before you spend it. To a hasty question give a leisurely answer. A thousand probalbilities do not make…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The S. M. Herald of Tuesday gives some further particulars of the above terrible event:- Lithgow, Monday. Between 3 and 4 o'cloek this afternoon an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As to the Lithgow Valley Colliery disaster, following is the statement of John Duncan: "I was down with the men engaged in playing hose on the fire. While four other men were pumping, four were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. C. E. Dooley, of the firm of Adcock Brothers and Co., merchants, Palmerston and Derby, stationed at the latter place, gives some interesting particulars relative to the Kimberley goldfields,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne, Saturday.—A letter has been received by the Hon James Munro from Winginah, West Australia. It states that great excitement exists in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ADELAIDE, Friday- Mr C. E. Deeley, of the firm of Adcock Brothers and Co., merchants, Palmerston and Derby, and stationed at the latter place, gives some…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The moot point in connection with the fatal mishap at the Lithgow Colliery Company's mine which is forming the subject of the Royal Commission's inquiries appears to be whether the disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The following additional information as to the Kimberley goldfield in Western Australia, and the means of access to it, are supplied by an official report and by private letters which (says the Argus)…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Perth telegrams state that a great nugget and a number of small ones have been found within a hundred mile Derby by Morgan and Angus, by merely scratching…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The town of Derby is situated on a spit of land running out into the sea, and in surrounded on two sides and the base of the site by a mangrove swamp of some 17 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →ONE result of the prevailing depression in the colonies is seen in the large number of persons who are setting their faces towards the northern part of Western Australia. No…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →SIR,—So far we are not in possession of any very full details of the new gold rush to Western Australia, still the few somewhat contradictory particulars that are to hand from Melbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Perth correspondent of the Melbourne Argus, writing on May 8, says:—Our new goldfield at Kimberley, rich as it seems undoubtedly to be, is not locally causing the excitement which might…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I am in receipt of your letter of yesterday with reference to proposed alterations in the Northern train service. A proposal was submitted to discontinue the running of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following particulars have been forwarded to the Newcastle Herald embodying in a condensed form the alleged causes of the Greta coalmine difficulty:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The reported discovery of large g[?]ld fields in Russian Central Asia may possibly be of sufficient importance to affect, and in a slight degree to remedy, the undue…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The half-yearly report of the directors of the Scottish Australian Mining Company (Limited), shows a profit balance of £22,234. A dividend at the rate of 20 per cent, per…
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