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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1896

213 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 11

Alluvial Mining Around Yackandandah. Rowdy Flat Claim

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 July 1896 · page 35

The Rowdy Flat machinery is at present doing excellent work and working very satisfactorily. Such a thing as a hitch or breakage is now not known, the only delay…

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The Western Australian Goldfields. Views of a Hay Resident. Mr. Broughton Interviewed

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 July 1896 · page 2

Mr Henry B. Broughton, the well-known commission agent, who, with his son Archer Broughton, set out for Western Australia some months ago, returned to Hay on…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 July 1896 · page 3

MR. Fisher, the newly installed manager of the Prentice Freehold mine is now going over the ground, which, in the time of his predecessor was unworkable, owing to its…

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Euston. July 12. Gold Weather

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 15 July 1896 · page 3

We have had exceptionally cold weather all the week, the glass falling as 24 last Thursday morning. Although the green grass is springing nicely around the…

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A Passing Shadow. [All Rights Reserved.] a Romance of the Great Coal Strike of '93. Chapter Xxii. an Evening Interlude

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 15 July 1896 · page 1

"Green grow the rashes, O: Green grow the rashes, O: The sweetest hours that e'er I spent Were spent among the lasses, O."…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 July 1896 · page 4

The Great Northern Extended Consols have, sunk their shaft to 420 feet bottom, level with a well of 7ft. feet deep. The drive, which was…

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New Gold Finds. the Orange Free State. London, July 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 July 1896 · page 27

Sensational accounts are reaching London as to the value of the gold fields recently discovered in the Orange Free State. It is reported that the new finds in extent and…

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Original Correspondence. the Corowa Deep Lead Gold Prospecting Co. To the Editor

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 July 1896 · page 5

SIR,--The paragraph in your last issue as to the legal charges incurred by this company in its prolonged contest with Sydney obstruction is--no doubt…

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Goldfield Revoked. District of Urana

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 July 1896 · page 39

Within leasehold area of Brooking holding No. 473. Part of reserve from conditional purchase within the Galore goldfield proclaimed 22nd…

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A Passing Shadow. [All Rights Reserved.] a Romance of the Great Coal Strike of '93. Chapter Xxiv. and Found

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 22 July 1896 · page 1

"Oh, Love will venture in where it daur na well be seen. Oh, Love will venture in where wisdom ance has been."…

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Mining Oh the Snowy River. a New Gold and Silver Field

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 July 1896 · page 36

Very few people are aware of the great mineral resources of this inaccessible part of the colony. If the district were opened up by roads and tracks to the prospector such…

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New Mining Industry

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 July 1896 · page 29

A new mining industry is likely to be started through the instrumentality of a few residents of Young. To the curious we may say wolfram is a native tungstate…

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Mining Near Yackandandah

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 July 1896 · page 29

There is every prospect of an early start being made with the work on M'Combe's Flat. A first-class boiler, which has been building to the order of…

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Fatal Mining Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 July 1896 · page 29

In the Great Southern Junction mine, Rutherglen, on l6th inst., a man named James Walsh was killed instantly. The deceased's mate, named Yeemans, states…

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All That Glitters Is Not Gold

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 July 1896 · page 4

After a lapse of twelve months the Rutherglen Amateurs have again appeared before the footlights and scored another brilliant success…

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Wodonga Court of Mines. Friday, July 17. (Before His Honor Judge Casey.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 July 1896 · page 27

Hansen v. Allen.—This was an appeal from the decision of Mr. Warden Rowan, given at Tallangatta on the 25th September, 1895, and in which Allen, Brady, Flynn, and Lehman were…

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Sudden Death of a Mining Expert

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 July 1896 · page 29

A sensation was caused in Coolgardie on Saturday night when it became known that the dead body of Captain Vawdrey had been discovered about half-past 9…

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Mine Accident

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 5 August 1896 · page 2

James MacIlvenie, an employe at the Greta colliery, had his leg badly broken yesterday through a mass of top coal falling on him…

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Mining at Bright

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1896 · page 28

A telegram was received by the Mines Department on Friday from Bright, stating that the Monarch of the Glen Mining Company, at Harretville, had…

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New Mining ACT.d

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1896 · page 29

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Sydney-Smith) expresses much gratification at the passage of the Miners' Rights Bill (Mining Act Amendment Bill) through…

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