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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
113 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 6
The Mount Morgan mining case, the Queen v. Cribb, was commenced before the Full Court to-day. This was an application to make absolute a mandamus granted by Mr. Justice Harding to Richard…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Arthur Edmonds, an old resident of Border Town, and one of the earliest prospectors at Kimberley, has just returned from Kimberley. He went to Perth last year to select land, but was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Wednesday morning, reports the Herald, a largely-attended deputation of members of the recent Rabbit Conference waited upon the Minister of Mines, to present to him a series of resolutions…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wyoming Valley is famed, not only for its picturesque beauty, but also for its vast stores of mineral wealth that lie hidden be[?]eath its smiling surface. It is the centre of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our contemporary Invention is enabled to announce on the best authority that the Marchant engine, which embodies the solution of that most important problem, the return to the boiler, by…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The following communication respecting the preparation in case of war, which, were made in 1885, has been addressed by Earl Granville, Secretary of State for the colonies, to his Excellency…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Sir,—Be pleased to inform their lordships, owing to the fact that no stock of coal is kept in Australian ports, save in quite the outlying ones, it became necessary for me to consider the question,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some interesting information has been obtained relative to the Kimberley goldfields and the rival routes to the diggings. Mr. Durack, who has a station on the Ord River, on the boundary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Lithgow Mercury of Saturday gives the following particulars of the mining dispute at Lithgow, which has been settled so far as the Eskbank mine is concerned, by the management agreeing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Gambier arrived at Cambridge Gulf on the 5th June, the Afghan on the 12th, and the Victoria on the 14th. The three steamers landed about 620 men and 430…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The following from The Engineer of May 28, will we think surprise most of our Hunter readers. It is quite possible the coal beds of the Blue Mountains, at and near Lithgow, may really be of the great…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An experienced digger, who was a passenger to the Kimberley goldfields by the steamer Khandall, writes to the Melbourne Argus as follows:—The news sent south is greatly exaggerated, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dear Cousin,—In my letters to you I think never alluded to the New South Wales diggings. Every person knows that gold was found near Bathurst, situated in New South Wales during the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →A labourer named Thomas Leach, who had been employed at the Wallsend colliery, met his death on Thursday in circumstances of a very melancholy character. It seemed from the evidence elicited at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In the annual report of the Mint just issued, it is stated that it is well known that standard gold is rendered very brittle and unfit for coinage by the addition of a minute quantity of certain metals,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We give from the Herald's telegram, fuller particulars of the report of Sergeant Troy of which our Sydney telegrams on Thursday contained a summary…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Linda Webber has arrived at Port Darwin, four days out from Wyndham, with 75 passengers returning from Kimberley, including Mr. Keep, of Hedley and Keep, packers, who has come to have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The extent of the coal area in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, is 200 square miles, and over 100 square miles of adjoining sub-marine coals. The quantity of available coal, allowing…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Last night a young man named [?] Reynolds, a stonemason, was arrested at Newtown, on a charge of forcing his wife in swallow a cup of opium, whilst he stood over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The report of the secretary for mines for the year 1885 has just been issued, and it is an unusually interesting document, Mr. Langtree having treated at length many important subjects…
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