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Illawarra · Mining & the mines
41 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 3
In March, 1858, and April, 1859, Mt. Anderson, the inspector of machinery at Woolwich, was directed by the Secretary of State for War to test some samples of Australian coal obtained from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OUR readers are a [?] that within the last few months a new Coal Mining Company, consisting of several large capitalists, has been formed in this district, and with a view to facilitate their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the Agnes Jessie we have news to the 12th instant. In noticing the Coromandel district the New Zealander" states that recent advices confirm the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(Before J. H. Griffin, Esq., Gold-Commissioner, Chairman, J. W. Bunn, and W. J. Bennison, Esquires. This Board held a sittings at the Court-house,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following telegram appeared in Tuesday's Empire:— YOUNG. Sunday, via Yass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Very few particulars beyond those given in our issue have been ascertained respecting the late robbery of the Lachlan Escort. The ruffians said in the first instance to number twelve to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The correspondent of the Herald, writes:—A fortnight expired on Saturday last since a portion of the now hands brought from Melbourne by the Company settled down to work in the mines. The following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday last Thomas Beagley Naylor, the late receiver and paymaster at Castlemaine, who the day previously had pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Residents in Sydney of ten or twelve years' standing are aware that at one period a considerable quantity of could was procured from what was known as the Ebenezer Mine, at Lake Macquarie. The coals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Whereas James Byrnes and William Byrnes of Sydney Merchants are owners of certain Coal Mines near Wollongong aforesaid known as The Mount Pleasant Coal Mines And whereas the said James…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City of Hobart, from Otago, brings news to August 27th. The gold-fields from which the deposit of 82lbs. was made on the 15th instant have been made public by the Government who have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A lengthy investigation has taken place at the Armidale Police Court, before Mr. Weaver, the Police Magistrate. and Mr. G. Allingham, into the charges…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following letter from the Government Examiner of Coal-fields is published in the Herald of Monday:—Sir,—Since the publication of the tabular…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I rode over the other day to see my friend Jim Thornton, as lives near sodwalls. four or five cattle stations on the Lachlan, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—I went to Tim Thornton's on Monday, 29th, to let him know what I thought of John Smith and his ritings. After we'd had a blow out of bucon and turnip tops (we can't get any…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Although referring more particularly to the Northern Coal Fields, there is much in the following extract than will be read with interest in this district:— There are several bills before Parliament this session…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In St. Michael's on Sabbath last the Dean of Sydney preached instructive and profitable discourses in behalf of the above objects. The collections amounted to about £11…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—A short notice in your last week's paper in reference to an Inspection of the coal-seams of Saddleback mountain, by two practical miners, induces me to make a few remarks upon the subject, which I believe to be one of great importance, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Newcastle correspondent of the Maitland Mercury reports that on Wednesday morning last, a man whose name, strange to say nobody can give us, suffered a most serious accident at the now pit,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Co-operative Coal Mining Company, at Newcastle, has now reached such a stage of development as to be worthy of prominent notice. That working men, associated under the…
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