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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1878

19 stories in Murray's papers

By Electric Telegraph. SYDNEY, Tuesday. New Guinea Goldfields

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 9 January 1878 · page 2

A large vessel is laid on for the New Guinea Goldfields, and large numbers are expected to go. THREATENED REVOLUTION IN VICTORIA. Great fears are entertained of a revolution in Victoria…

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Mining Memoranda

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 19 March 1878 · page 2

THE Chiltern Valley Gold Mining Company, Chiltern, report:--Shortly after the after the date of last progress report (February 11) it was considered…

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Science. Colours From Coal

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 15 May 1878 · page 2

PROFESSOR ARMSTRONG delivered a lecture recently on this subject at the London Institution. After explaining the retort, condenser, exhauster, scrubber and…

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The New Land Bill. (Continued ) Conditional purchases in gold fields

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 June 1878 · page 4

40. Subject to the provisions of the law in force for the time being regulating mining on Crown lands any Crown lauds within a proclaimed gold-field [but not situated within any…

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Grandmother's Gold Buckle. I.—a Green Door Opens

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 26 June 1878 · page 1

THE July morning glowed with the heat of an Italian summer, the sun poured down rays of intense white light on the marble fagade of the Church of Santa Croce in…

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The Natural Dissemination of Gold

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 14 August 1878 · page 2

THE results of recent investigations only go to confirm more and more the opinion long held by geologists as to the wide distribution of gold…

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Coal and Its Products

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 21 August 1878 · page 2

APART from the varied uses of coal in its ordinary sate, we owe an immense deal to the products which by chemical means we obtain from it; and it is our purpose in this…

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Tales of the Mines. the Hanging Rock

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 4 September 1878 · page 1

WHEN to our passions sway is given, The end no prophet can foresee, The soul is tempest tossed, and riven With sin, remorse, and misery…

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Tales of the Mines. the Little Diggers

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 11 September 1878 · page 1

To die when young is to escape A thousand [?] and woes: From love and hate and care set free, from heartiess friends and foss…

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The Bag of Gold

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 18 September 1878 · page 1

THE Rev. Bryan Barry was the sole representative of the Roman Catholic faith in the wild and mountainous district of Jimbellico, an isolated stretch of country in one of…

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Tales of the mines. the Little Diggers. (Concluded from Supplement 83.)

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 25 September 1878 · page 1

Over two years have elapsed since we left the little diggers in the charge of Jack the Blower. Vast changes have taken place in Sandy Creek. The alluvial claims have all…

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Tales of the mines. on the Road to Bendigo. an Incident at Mount Macedon

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 16 October 1878 · page 1

"WERE there any bushrangers in Victoria?" said the old pioneer, as we sat in our hotel, a few days since. "Were there? I shoudl say so. Why, [?]ame across three of…

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Fearful Colliery Explosion

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 2 November 1878 · page 17

Yesterday afternoon a frightful colliery explosion occurred at the Abe ream, a pit near Newport, belonging to the Ebber Vale Colliery Company. The number of men in the pit at the time…

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The Robbery of Gold Prom the Mail Steamer Avoca

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 2 November 1878 · page 4

In August, 1877, a box containing 5000 sovereigns was robbed of its contents, either on board the R.M.S. China or the R.M.S. Avoca. The loss was first discovered on the…

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Science. Working Gold Ores

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 6 November 1878 · page 2

COMMUNICATIONS are sometimes addressed to us asking our advice or opinions concerning various methods of working gold ores, and recently several correspondents…

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Frightful Colliery Explosion, Loss of 280 Lives

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 November 1878 · page 2

The most terrible catastrophe in the nature of a colliery, accident that has ever, happened in the South Wales district occurred at noon on September 11, at the Prince of Wales…

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Revival in Gold Mining

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 December 1878 · page 4

THE Town and Country of the 7th inst. says:— One of the largest, if not the largest cake of gold which has ever been obtained from the reefs of New South Wales was sold and deposited in the…

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Cost of Coal for Railways

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 21 December 1878 · page 4

The S M Herald says:—Some time ago Mr Woods, the Commissioner for Railways in Victoria, informed a deputation that one reason why New South Wales could carry goods…

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Latest Telegrams. (From Friday’s Papers.) the Avoca Gold Robbery. London, December 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 21 December 1878 · page 11

Mr. Elliston, the late chief Officer of the Avoca, who was accused of being an accomplice in the gold robbery bye his confederate, Martin Wyberg, the ships carpenter, has been remanded till the…

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