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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1887

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The Bulli Colliery Disaster Eighty-one Bodies Recovered Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 April 1887 · page 25

The task of recovering the dead bodies is being carried on without intermission. Up to midnight 38 had been brought out and identified, some of them presenting a horrible…

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The Bulli Colliery Disaster

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 4

At a meeting of the Bulli miners on Monday Mr Nicholson, the miners' general secretary, reported that the manager of the Bulli pit had refused to allow three representatives of the…

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Mining Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 April 1887 · page 25

An accident occurred at Mr. Oswald’s Parkin’s Beef mine, Maldon, last week, resulting in the death of a young man named Thomas Evans, a son of Mr. Evan Evans, of Walmer…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion in Belgium. 147 Bodies Recovered

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1887 · page 9

According to information received, a terribly disastrous explosion occurred in the coal mine known as the Ste. Desiree, at Quaregnon, near Paturages, Belgium, on…

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Fatal Mining Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1887 · page 27

A fatal accident occurred at about 8 o’clock on Tuesday evening, at No. 3 shaft in the South Clunes United Company’s mine, the victim being a young man named William…

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The Bulli Colliery Disaster. Verdict of the Coroner’s Jury

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1887 · page 26

The inquest on the Bulli disaster was concluded in Sydney on Saturday. The coroner, in his summing up, pointed out that the experts who had given evidence were almost…

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The Bulli Colliery Disaster

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 May 1887 · page 26

Up to Monday last the central committee of the Bulli Relief Fund had received £13,914. Same of the widows are complaining of the way in which the relief is distributed. They…

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The Bulli Colliery Disaster

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 May 1887 · page 25

The Central Committee of the Bulli Relief Fund had up to Monday last received £16,183, including a third remittance of £1000 from Melbourne. Efforts are being made by the…

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Gold Rush in Queensland

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 May 1887 · page 25

Trustworthy information has been received of a rush to the Burdekin, where fine alluvial gold has been found. The locality is about 70 miles from Ravenewood, 25 miles from the…

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The Distress in the Northumberland Coal Districts

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 May 1887 · page 26

The disastrous strike in Northumberland is now (says the Daily Newt) approaching its termination. The distress which prevails among the mining population is beginning to…

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The Kimberley Goldfield

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 May 1887 · page 23

The Government Resident at Wyndham telegraphs that the complexion of affairs on the goldfields has altered considerably for the better. Good patches of alluvial gold have…

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New Mining Discovery

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 May 1887 · page 25

Mr. W. H. Grainger, Inspector of Mines for the Sandhurst district, has forwarded to the Mining Department a report upon a strike of gold in the Great Extended Hustlers mine at a…

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Shocking Mining Accident at Sandhurst. Two Men Killed by an Explosion

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 May 1887 · page 25

A shocking mining accident occurred (on Monday night at Johnston’s Gold Mine, California Gully. Three men, named Henry Hoully, William Deeble, and Samuel Harry…

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The Colliery Strikes in Belgium. Brussels, May 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 June 1887 · page 18

The strikes in the colliery districts of Belgium are extending rapidly, and military precautions on a large scale are being taken in order to prevent an outbreak of disorder…

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Mining Statistics of New South Wales

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 June 1887 · page 24

The annual report of the Department of Mines for 1886 shows that the total depth bored by diamond drills during the year was 6,539ft., or 4,786ft. less than in the previous…

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Fatal Colliery Explosion in England. Loss of 70 Lives. [By Submarine Cable.] London, May 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 June 1887 · page 18

An explosion of fire-damp took place yesterday at Ubston Colliery, near Glasgow, resulting in the death of 70 miners…

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The Colliery Strikes in Belgium. Brussels. June 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 June 1887 · page 18

Considerable signs of abatement are visible in the strikes in the colliery districts, and the movement is likely to collapse…

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The Kimberley Goldfields. Reported Discovery of Rich Reefs

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 June 1887 · page 25

The Government of Western Australia have received a telegram from the warden of the Kimberley goldfields, dated April 11, stating that a 30oz. nugget had been handed to him,…

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The Bulli Colliery Disaster

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 July 1887 · page 19

The Bulli Inquiry Commission concluded taking evidence on Monday, when Edward Kerrisen, a miner who was in the Bulli pit just before the explosion, was examined His…

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Accident in a Mining Claim

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 July 1887 · page 27

A fall of about 100 t[?] s of stone and mu[?] lock occurred in the Pearl mine, Sandhurst on Tuesday evening[?] named Jung[?] Carbis, and Lebmay, may, were at work…

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