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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1896

213 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 11

Terrible Colliery Accident. Eight Men Suffocates. Sydney. Friday, December 4

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 December 1896 · page 3

[?]arful calamity has occurred at the Stockton [?] near Newcastle, where two miners were [?]ted on Wednesday morning. Yesterday [?]be funeral of the victims, nine of the miners…

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Gold at Deniliquin a Rush Deprecated

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 December 1896 · page 2

The fact that Mr D. G. McDougall C.P.S. [?] been appointed Warden’s Clerk and Mining Regi[?] at Deniliquin, has given rise to the belief T[?] rich reef or payable alluvial find has been d[?]…

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Great Colliery Disaster. Eight Men Suffocated

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 December 1896 · page 35

Hardly had the grave closed upon the two man Curran and Smith, who were suff[?]cated by carbonic acid gag in the S[?]ckton Pit, Newcastle, when another appalling catastrophe…

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Sensational Mining Returns

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 December 1896 · page 28

Messrs. Snow and Liddell's claim at Moliagul continues to provide sensations for the public. On Saturday the two partners brought to the Bank of Victoria,…

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Mining at Forbes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 December 1896 · page 29

The Forbes Times says:—"Though mining matters around Forbes are hardly bo much on the boom as they were a few weeks ago they are in an even sounder…

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Mining on the Loddon

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 December 1896 · page 29

Information has been received by the Minister of Mines that an English syndicate is in course of formation to work auriferous deposits in the valley of the…

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English Capital for Victorian Mines

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 December 1896 · page 27

The Big G[?] group of mines, situated in the Australian Alps, at the source of the Ovens River, has been purchased by Mr. T. G. D[?]vsy, of Harrietville, on behalf of an English…

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A Colliery Flooded. Six Men Missing. London, December 10

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 December 1896 · page 27

A serious disaster has occurred in a coal mine at Abernant, in Carmarthenshire. A rush of water suddenly flooded the mine. One hundred and twenty men, who were below at…

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Literature. Mining on Private Lands

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 December 1896 · page 10

The new Mining Laws Amendment Act will come into operation shortly. The officers of the department are now busily engaged preparing the necessary forms to…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 December 1896 · page 2

Last week was a red letter day for the Southern No. 1 which after considerably over twelve months' work has at last produced gold, the yield…

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Mining Regulations

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 December 1896 · page 25

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to make the following regulations under the "Mining Laws Amendment Act of…

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Terrible Colliery Disaster. Nearly 100 Lives Lost. London, December 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 December 1896 · page 27

A terrible colliery disaster has occurred at Resicsa, in Hungary. An explosion of fire-damp occurred in the mine, by which 43 men were killed and 19 seriously injured…

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Mining in the Alps. Thirty Ounces to the Ton

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 December 1896 · page 27

The new reef recently opened by Messrs Fulton near Wallace's Deep Lead is looking splendidly, good stone being raised, and the reef has been proved far a distance of 100[?]t…

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The Eskdale Goldfields

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 December 1896 · page 27

The manner in which the above has been boomed by a section of the metropolitan press is simply disgusting, and I would advise any person before relying on such reports in future…

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The Author of "Trilby" a a Mining Expert. Amusing Sketch of Early Life

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 December 1896 · page 4

What purports to be an autobiographical story of the early life of the late George Du Maurier is told in the new penny weekly, The London Magpie. The life-like tale was…

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