Mining Industry of the Colony. a Brighter Prospect Ahead
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 July 1899 · page 3
According to the Minister of Mines, Mr. Cook, there is a very marked and distinct revival taking place in the mining industry of New South Wales, and with the plentiful rainfall that we have…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 July 1899 · page 5
Fortune will not boar chiding. We must not reproach her, or she shuns us. Time is a fiction and limits not fate. Thought alone is eternal, time thralls it in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Klondyke Gold
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1899 · page 3
UNDER date June 29, the correspondent of the Herald at Vancouver (B.C.) writes —"Gold has begun to arrive from the north. Already five…
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The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 August 1899 · page 2
The undermentioned leases have been cancelled :—W. L. Adams, portion 93, 2 acres, parish Oldcastle; Jos. Weir, portion 146, 2 acres, same parish;…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1899 · page 3
A rich find of silver has been reported from Wellingrove, 15 miles from Glen Innes. A petition is being signed at Gundagai in favour of dredging leases being granted in the district…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining at Copeland. (From a Correspondent.)
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1899 · page 4
Things are now a little brieker in the mining line. The Prince Charlie Co. have put on half-a-dozen wages men, who are to get out trial crushings of nearly two hundred tons. About fifty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Strike at the Pacific Colliery
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 August 1899 · page 3
The Minister of Labour, who has received a communication from the miners on strike at the Pacific Colliery, Newcastle, requesting him to refer the dispute between them and the colliery proprietors to…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 August 1899 · page 5
In the cause of friendship, brave all dangers. He who is not true to himself is a traitor to heaven. A man is strong when ho admits to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Mining Accident. [By Telegraph] Sydney
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 8 August 1899 · page 2
A SERIOUS mining accident occurred at Lachian gold field mine, near Forbes, to-day. A number of men were erecting a large wheel when the…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 9 August 1899 · page 4
THINGS continue dull at Stowart's Brook, our chief mining centre (says the Scoue Advocate), but residents look hopefully for some development that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Gold Import
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 August 1899 · page 3
The s.s Cintra arrived from Queensland to-day with 10,770 ounces of gold…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1899 · page 3
The Queensland gold returns for July show that 118,772 tons of stone yielded 77,630 Z. an increase of 2322. z. over the yield for July last year. It Was resolved by large majority, at a ballot of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal Trouble. Probable Concessions. a Threat to Wreck Mining Plant. London, Aug. 11
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1899 · page 3
The Times states that with the view of preventing British interference in the internal affairs of the Transvaal, the Boer Executive will probably concede a five years' franchise to the Uitlanders…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 August 1899 · page 6
The strangest exhibit in the British Museum is the likeness of a human log carved out of cannel coal. It came from America and represents the folly of tho Prince of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About Submarine Mines
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 August 1899 · page 1
A submarine mine, in the naval sense, is an anchored torpedo. It may be buoyant or placed at the bottom of a channel. It may be automatic or…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1899 · page 3
The gold yield in Victoria for the last seven months was 465,000z A diamond weighing between 6 and 7 carats has been found on the Boggy Camp field…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Latest Cable News. a Colliery Disaster
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1899 · page 3
In a colliery explosion at Bridgend, Wales, eighteen miners were killed and sixty men were entombed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aladdin's Cave Rivalled. Wonderful Discovery of Gold nere Vancouver
Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 August 1899 · page 1
A RECENT despatch from Victoria (B.C.) to the San Francisco Call reports a wonderful discovery of gold near Albert, the mining tawn…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Immense Wealth. Land Worth £13,000,000 an Acre. London Streets Worth their weight in Gold
Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 August 1899 · page 6
ONE of the surest and safest ways of becoming rich beyond the dreams of avarice would (says the London Daily Mail) be to possess a few acres of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Colliery Explosion
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 August 1899 · page 3
Afterdamp coming in contact with naked lights caused the explosion in a colliery in Glamorganshire, South Wales. Owing to the concussion a portion of the roof of the colliery fell,…
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