The Gold Boom at Kalgoorlie
A gentleman who is at present visiting W. Australian goldfields given the following vivid pen and ink sketch of live and bustle at Kalgoorlie, now the…
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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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A gentleman who is at present visiting W. Australian goldfields given the following vivid pen and ink sketch of live and bustle at Kalgoorlie, now the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There was a kind of mild excitement in town on Saturday and Monday, induced by the report that some stone which had been sent from Plashett near Jerry's Plains, to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a couvention of delegates representing the silver party, held at St.Louis, Mr W. J. Bryau, the Democratic candidate, was nominated for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The half-yearly general meeting of shareholders of the Newcastle and Wallsend Coal Company was held at the Company offices to-day, Mr. P. Reed being in the chair. The report of the Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Owing to the rich developments in the Birthday at Parkes, an adjouning property is said to have been sold for £3000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Attorney-General moved the third reading of the Mining Act Amendment Bill, and Mr. Dangar having called for a division the motion was curried by 15 to 13, and the measure was returned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"And mann I still on Menis dote, And bear the scorn that's in her ce? For it's jet, jet black, and it's like an hawk, And it winna let a body be."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fatal accident occurred at the Golden Fleece mine, Walballs, Victoria, on Saturday evening. A miner named Johnston, with others, was lowering a flywheel two tons in weight down a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE dispute at the New Lambton Colliery was amicably settled to-day, and the miners resumed work…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal-miners Board of Conciliation has lapsed. The employers desired to reduce the wages of the miners but the representatives of the men insisted that there should be no alteration…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three brothers named Holland have discovered several rich gold specimens near Oakleigh, and there is considerable excitement in consequence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two coal mines at Mous, Belgium, have been closed, and six hundred miners thrown out of employments. The reason assigned for closing the mines in the increased cost of labour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Advices from West Australia state a trial crushing from the main lode at the Pakeha mine, Broad Arrow, returned 20oz. of gold for ton. An offer of £35,000 has already been made for the property…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Whispering Gully, till very recently, has been comparatively speaking, abandoned, owing, perhaps, to the winter months. Anyhow, mining in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous explosion has occurred in a colliery at Glanmorganshire, South Wales, and 40 miners have been entombed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further particulars of the colliery [?] at Neath state that 200 men had descended the pit. Hoavy falls were heard in the workings of the mine, and caused alarm. [?] were at once…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Green grow the rashes, O; Green grow the rashes, O: The sweetest hours that e'er I spent Were spent among the lasses, O."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The gold escort from Braidwood last weak carried over 840oz, the largest amount dispatched from the field for many month?. During the month of July over 300oz. of beach…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Moree correspondent writes:—A paragraph recently appeared in one of your issues to the effect that the largest piece of gold ever found was obtained by two miners named Beyers and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →WE have received the following contribution from Mr Joel Atkiu:—"At the invitation of some Jerry's Plains friends, a party'visited the scene of…
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