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Mining & the mines, 1888

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Discovery of Coal near Warkworth

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 November 1888 · page 2

ON Saturday last Mr Hen y Tavlor, while sinking a well on his selection, Eden Vale, some two miles this side of Warkworth, struck a splendid seam of coal nearly five…

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The Botany Gold Cup

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 December 1888 · page 5

The running for the Botany Gold Cup commenced to-day. The following men won their heats:— Byrnes, Cameron, Clarke, Nowland, Sharpe, Hope, M'Gilvery, Sutton, Clarke, Banks, Samuels, Burtt,…

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Late Sporting News. (By Telegraph.) the Botany Gold Cup. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 December 1888 · page 2

M'GARRIGAL is now first favourite for the Botany Gold Cup at 4 to 1. Nowland is at 6 to 1, Cameron 6 to 1, and Robinson 8 to 1…

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Latest Sporting News. [By Telegraph From Greville's Company.] the Botany Gold Cup

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 December 1888 · page 5

The running for the Botany Gold Cup Sheffield Handicap concluded this afternoon, and although the weather was inclement the attendance was large, and the utmost excitement prevailed. The…

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[?]it to the Stewart's Brook Gold Mines. Work on the Field. I. (By our Special Reporter.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 December 1888 · page 7

Undoubtedly it is to the discovery of gold that this colony owes the great impetus that was given to its settlement and growth more thanhalf a century ago. Indeed it was the royal metal [?]hich brought…

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A Visit to the Stewart's Brook Gold Mines. WORK, [?] the Field. Ii. (By our Special Reporter.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 December 1888 · page 4

I have already said that the permanence of the field will depend in a large measure upon the systematic working of the reefs, and the appliances to hand for crushing the stone and…

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The Released Glebe Miners

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 December 1888 · page 3

ON Saturday, morning at 6 o'clock; after being, confined in. Darling[?]urat gaol since November 13, the Glebe miners-Jury, Toppic, and West—…

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Colliery Explosion and Loss of Ninety Lives

Singleton Argus · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 4

A SERIOUS explosion of fire damp occurred early on Saturday morning, November 3, at the mines at Campagnac, near Cransac, in the…

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