Pure Gold! Chapter IV.—(Continued.)
"And who is Madeline Abbott? "What! don't you know her? but you must have heard of her surely?" "You forget that I know no one," answered…
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Mining & the mines, 1887
152 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 8
Terrible Colliery Accident. Frightful Catastrophe at Bulli Mine. Terrific Explosion, 70 Men Entombed! No Hopes Entertained of Recovering Any Alive. Women and Children Heartbroken. Bulli, Wednesday, 3.30 P.M.
A terrific gas explosion occurred in the Bulli pit at about half-past 2 o'clock. Great excitement prevails. About 70 men were in the mine at the time of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Frightful Calastrophe at the Bulli Mine. BULLI, Wednesday, 3.30 p.m
A TERRIBLE gas explosion occurred in the Bulli pit at about half past 2 o'clock. Great excitement prevails. About 70 men were in the mine at the time of the explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Colliery Explosion at the Bulli Mine. 70 Men Entombed. Bulli, Wednesday, 3.30 p.m
A TERRIBLE gas explosion occurred in the Bulli pit at about half-past 2 o'clock. Great excitement prevails. About 70 men were in the mine at the time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pure Gold!
"Grapes are very nasty things," said Valentine when he saw how fur out of his reach hung the purple cluster; "there are a great many things that are far more profitable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Meeting of Miners at Bulli
A special meeting of minors was held yesterday in Sharpel's Assembly Rooms. Mr. T. J. Pallister occupied the chair. Mr. J. Nicholson, the miners' general…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pure Gold! Chapter Vi. the Gambler's Daughter
"You have had no luck either, then?" "I have had no reverse of luck," she answered; "this kind of business is not to be done in a day; the seasion is only just…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bulli Colliery Disaster. Meeting of Sympathy at Shellharbour
A PUBLIC meeting was held in the Council Chambers on Tuesday evening last, the 29th ult. The Mayor (Mr. W. Matthie) presided, and briefly explained the purpose for which the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Dust Explosion
The following from Professor Taylor of Loudon which appears in Saturday's Melbourne Australasian, will be read with interest in connection with the opinions expressed regarding the cause of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bulli Colliery Disaster. Meeting of Sympathy at Subllharbour
A public meeting was held in the Council Chamber on Tuesday evening. The Mayor, (Mr. W. Mathie) presided, and briefly explained the purpose for which the meeting was called…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Late Explosion at the Bulli Mine. To the Editor of the lllawarra Mercury
Sir,—Great dissatisfaction prevails here on account of Messrs. MacCabe and Evans being credited with having done so much towards relieving the entombed men, whon, with all due respect to those…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Simple Plan to Test the Existence of Firedamp in Coal Mines
A MR. BENJAMIN SHORT (Bowral) writing to the Melbourne Daily Telegraph on the Bulli catastrophe, asks:—''What assurance have we that similar terrible…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pure Gold ! CHAPTER VII.—(Continued.) a Tete-a-tete Dinner
Upstairs she sang to him. with a rich contralto voice, scraps of Italian songs or plaintive German airs. He sat behind her and listened as in duty bound, but he did not car much…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pure Gold! Chapter VIII.—(Continued.) How Val Took the News
"What is it!" he said, looking from one to the other. "Why do you look at me so strangely ? Have you anything to tell me ?" "My dear young friend," said Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Safety Lamps and Colliery Explosions
A very important and interesting report on the circumstances connected with the explosion of firedamp, which took place on August 13, 1886, in the Crumbouke Colliery, Leigh…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pure Gold! Chapter VIII.—(Continued.) How Val Took the News
"My dear Mr. Eyre! you cannot mean such a thing seriously. You are no longer my clerk. Of course you can draw on me for anything you want, or upon Mr. Gilfillan ; in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Explosions. To The Editor of the Illawarra Mercury
SIR.—In justice to the mining community of the colonies, there ought to be put on the Additional Estimates a sum of money for the best practical treatise on gasses generating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pure Gold! Chapter IX.—(Continued.) a Voice From the Dead
"What am I to do with thirty thousand a year?" he said to himself over and over again, with a sort of comic despair, at which he was himself amused…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pure Gold! Chapter X. "I Would Rather Die."
"News! news, nows!" cried Ralph Ormond, aged sixteen, nourishing the tongs about his head, as he sprang upon the study table", and executed a war dance upon that ancient and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mount Keira Colliery
The miners at Mount Keira have at last availed themselves of the privileges afforded by the Coalfield's Act whereby two of their number may from time to time act as check inspectors…
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