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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →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,…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →