Deputations to the Ministers of Works and Mines. (From our own reporter.) Rose-street Level Crossing
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 14 October 1886 · page 3
Mr. R. W. Thompson, M.L.A., introduced to the Minister of Works, on Tuesday forenoon, at his office, in Sydney, a deputation from West Maitland, composed of Alderman Gillies and Pulbrook, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Kimberley Goldfields. [By Telegraph From Greville's Co.]
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 14 October 1886 · page 5
Sydney, Wednesday, received 12.10 afternoon. Greville's special message from Wyndham, dated 8th October, received via Port Darwin, states that George Craig, of the Kimberley Squatting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kimberley Goldfields. (By Telegraph to the Herald.) Adelaide
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1886 · page 2
Mr. Baines, of Phil. Saunders's party, who has returned from Derby, deprecates the adverse criticisms passed on the Kimberley goldfields until the place has been fairly tried this wet season. Saunders…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Teetulpa Goldfield. Heavy Finds. Brilliant Prospects. [By Telegraph From Greville's Telegram Co.] Adelaide
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1886 · page 5
There is considerable excitement owing to the discovery of gold on Teetulpa run. The directors of the Alma gold mining Company have been interviewed and said 200 men are working at Wankaring…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Gold Discovery In South Australia
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1886 · page 21
The Adelaide correspondent of the Melbourne Age telegraphs as follows:—The gold discoveries in the north-east have created intense excitement in this colony, and a special reporter of the South…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Increased Commonage. Department of Mines, Stock Branch, Sydney, 15th October, 1886
Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 October 1886 · page 2
Sir,—Referring to the application for increased Commonage at South Singleton, I have the honor to inform you that a communication has been received from the Lands…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Important Discovery of Gold in South Australia
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 October 1886 · page 4
THERE was considerable excitement in Adelaide on Saturday owing to the discovery of gold on the Teetulpa run. The directors of the Alma Goldmining…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Increased Commonage. Department of Mines, Stock Branch, Sydney, 15th October, 188[?]
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 28 October 1886 · page 3
Sir,—Referring to the application for increased commonage at South Singleton, I have the honor to inform you that a communication has been received from the Lands Department, intimating that the papers are still under reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Values of Gold and Silver
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 November 1886 · page 6
The following Treasury minute, dated September 6, 1886, on the appointment of a Royal Commissio[?] in England to inquire into the recent changes in the relative values of the precious metals, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Teetulpa Goldfield
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 November 1886 · page 2
Further splendid finds of gold are reported from the Teetulpa fields…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Colliery Explosion.—supposed Loss of 20 Lives
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 18 November 1886 · page 5
A terrible explosion occurred at the Silkstone pit of Messrs. Pope and Pearson's colliery, Altof ts, near Wakefield, on October 2. The shaft is 420 yards deep, and the seam worked is the Silkstone, one of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Teetulpa Goldfields
Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 November 1886 · page 2
THE Wardon of the Teetulpa goldfield telegraphs:—"About 60 men are washing at Tonkin's well. Two young men from the south-cast side of Brady's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Nundle Miners and Mr. J. P. Abbott, M.L.A.
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1886 · page 6
As the outcome of the recent meeting of miners at Nundle the following telegram (says the Tamworth News) was forwarded to Mr. J. P. Abbott:— It having recently come to the knowledge of the miners in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Teetulpa Goldfields. (From the Herald.) Adelaide
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1886 · page 6
J. R. Phillips, a well-known sheep-farmer, who has returned from a visit to Teetulpa, says that he saw two men, who were formerly employed by him, working at the bottom of Brady's Gully, with about £2000 worth of gold in their possession,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Shocking Accident in a Mine
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 November 1886 · page 1
A TERRIBLE fatality occurred in the Bute and Downes Company's mine, at Clunes, Victoria, at about 1 o'clock on Monday morning, when a young man…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Select Poetry. All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 November 1886 · page 4
WHO shall judge a man from his manner? Who shall know him from his dress? Pampers may be fit for princes, Princes fit for something less;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nol[?]teer Submarine Miners
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 November 1886 · page 8
An Engineer corps, called the Volunteer Submarine Miners, has recently been formed by the War Department for the defence of commercial harbours. A new company has just been raised at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Recent Progress in the Coal Tar Industries. (Engineer, Aug. 6.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 November 1886 · page 7
Sir Henry Roscoe, M.P., in his lecture at the Royal Institution upon the above subject, at which Sir William Bowman occupied the chair, said that Gœthe in his early years-about 1741—described a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The New Goldfield at Geraldton. (By Telegraph to the Herald). Brisbane
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 November 1886 · page 4
The Clerk of Petty Sessions at Geraldton has wired as follows to the Under-Secretary for Mines: Christie Falmerston's reported find of an extensive alluvial goldfield is still causing great excitement…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hlawarra Miners Strike
Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 November 1886 · page 2
Unless the Illararra coal strike terminates shortly the coal mine owners intend to ca[?] Home for miners in place of the late [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →