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Mr. Alexander Johnston, a resident of East Maitland, has just returned from a trial at beach mining and gives a very gloomy account of what is being done within sound of the sea in the way of securing…
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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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Mr. Alexander Johnston, a resident of East Maitland, has just returned from a trial at beach mining and gives a very gloomy account of what is being done within sound of the sea in the way of securing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR J. M. HVDE, who represents the Messrs. Cowlishaw Bros. in Newcastle states that Mr Heath, the underground manager of the Greta Colliery, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In concluding this correspondence as far as I am concerned, I will ask you to let me say a few words in reference to "Justice's" last letter. "Justice" attributes the ruin of the coal trade of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An esteemed correspondent writes to us from Dungog, as follows:—After a visit of inspection to the Monkerai goldfield, which as yet is in its infancy, no practical miner could arrive at any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The half-yearly meeting of this Company was held to-day at the Chamber of Commerce, Sydney, Mr. J. P. Burns presiding. The following report was presented:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For some time past Mr. Hyde and party have been prospecting near Droubalgie platform, about 7 miles from Forbes, on the western side of the railway line, and have got a reef about 2ft. wide, some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Consideration of the Coal Mines Regulation Bill was resumed at clause G, which provides for grauting certificates of services to certain under…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The miners' lodge at Greta has been meeting twice daily, when the roll was called at each meeting, and a strict attention to picket duty enforced. This duty consists in trying to advise any misled…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Out Minmi way there appears to be but faint hopes of a satisfactory settlement of the troubles of the locked-out Back Creek miners, for all the colliery horses have been branded, and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A rich reef has been discovered at a depth of 3ft. on Kiacatoo station, 10 miles from Condobolin. Fossickers are doing well in the Sofala district, and gold in fair quantities has been purchased from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An esteemed correspondent writes to us from Dungog, as follows :—After a visit of inspection to the Monkerai goldfield, which as yet is in its infancy, no practical miner could arrive at any…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,-The above controversy having now run its possible course and come to its only possible end: in the utter and ignominious collapse of our misinformed detractors "Justice No. 2" and "Peter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,-I think the state of the coal trade of the Lower Hunter at the present time is well worth considering, as a case in point to show how the monopoly of Unionism inevitably defeats itself. In this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are informed on good authority that a party of three men recently divided among them £120 for nine days' rather promiscuous work in the Shot-over River, near the old Blind Stab claim, junction…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An important gold reef, 3ft. think, has been discovered near Langdon's, near Greymouth (N.Z.), at a lower level than any tested before. A rush has set in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Friday night Mr Keen's house, on Branxton-road, was pelted with stones, which penetrated the window and fell on the bod where Mrs Keen, an old…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The cable being responsible for the assertion that the Cremorne coal mine has been floated in London for £500,000, the question arises, how will the working of that mine affect the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At Cue four additional batteries have started. The gold escort from Cue took away 5468oz. emelted gold, or 1339oz. in excess of the highest escort. At Cuddingwood, Harry Peppin and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The House [?] committee further considered the Coal Mines Bill, and passed the clauses up to and inclusive of clause 20, with numerous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Barmedman battery at Wyalong is again in fall work on a large lot of 140 tons or splendid stone from the Currajong claim, estimated to yield afc least 3oz. per ton. A parcel from Doyle and party's…
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