Queensland Gold Returns
The final gofd returns for 1897, which ere just available, are interesting. It is shown by the official table prepared that, while in 1896 the…
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Mining & the mines, 1898
220 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 11
The Miner. News from Everywhere GOLD
Gillard and party, Hoger's [?] Wattle [?] have crushed 3 tons of Stone for [?] of [?] gold. Gold has been struck in the D'Arey…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining in New England. Hillgrove Crushings
Baker's Creet G.M. Co.—The battery for the fortnight crushed 561 tons for 530½ozs. smelted gold. At the Eleanora G. and A. M. Co…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colliery Catastrophe
By a fire in a colliery at Whitewick, Leicestershire, 36 miners were entombed in the workings, and perished…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Contract for Coal
The United States Government, by Secretary John D. Long, of the Navy Department closed a contract with Peale, Peacock, and Kerr, coal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle and the War. Fears for the Coal Trade
Colliery owners and miners, dependent on the Newcastle foreign coal export trade, are serioaely concorned about the American war,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Department of Mines and Agriculture. Stock and Brands, Sydney, 15th April, 1898
Sir,—In reply to your personal enquiry as to action taken in reference to application to have the Tia River Goldfield notified as a Co[?], I have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Strike. RESULT 200,000 Idle Men. Losing £300,000 a Week
Two hundred thousand miners and iron operatives in South Wales are idle owing to the coal strike which is costing £300,000 weekly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →He Went to the Rush. a Good Goldfields Yarn
Many a good yarn is told by miners of the old digging days in Victoria when money was thrown about like water, and when scarcely a fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tuesday. Three Spanish Steamers Captured. Dissertion in Washington. Troops to Be Drilled. Pastoral Letter. in Vulnerable to Bullets. Protection to Spaniards, America Purchases Coal Supply. Britain's Friendly Sympathy. War Faxes. £20,000,000 to Be Raised. 50,000 Troops at Havana. Enthusiasm of Spaniards
The American fleet has captured three more Spanish merchant steamers including a cotton cargo valued at £80,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Vengeance is Mine
In the wild and rugged coast-1ine of north-western Donegal there are many indentations which, like the Norwegian fiords, rue back for miles…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining. Cells Creek
The "Wingham Chronicle," describing a trip to the Cells, states that Mr. M'Pherson intends to open a store and Mr. Cooper will do something in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Threatened Miners' Strike. Trouble Looming Up at Newcastle
The threatened strike of the Newcastle colliery owners raises one of the most anomalous positions ever witnessed in connection with New…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Hetton Miners. Determined to Enforce the Weighing Provisions. the Employers' Ulti Matum an Insult
The Hetton M Eudge at Newcastle last night considered the owners recent announcement that if the weighing provisions of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cablegrams. [From the Metrolitian Papers.] Sydney, Friday. Miners of Great Britain. Increase of 10 Per Cent. Demanded. Grane to the Strike Fund
The Miners Federation of Greet Britain as demanded an increase of 10 per sent, on the miner's wages. The federation granted £30,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →He Went to the Rush. a Good Goldfields Yarn
Many a good yarn is told by miners of the old digging days in Victoria when money was thrown about like water, and when scarcely a fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Opening a Whisky Mine
One foggy, morning, jost about dawn, In August 1855 the steramboat Twilight was making her way cautiosly up the missouri river suddebly there was a jar, the boat bulged up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining in new Enmglandd. Hillgrove Crushings
Baker's Creek. G.M. Co.—521 ton's crushed for a yield of 422,za. lldwt. smelted gold. Hunlight G. M. Co.—404tons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Discovery of a Large Gold Nugget in Vicgtoria
Two mibers have unearthed a nugget of gold weighing 142 azs valued at £560, alt blue gully. tentham victoria a rush has set in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Bags Oe Gold Dust. Robbees' Bidden Tbbisdrb
The long lost cabin of mount hood," Oregon has been found but its fabulous wealth stil remains unearthed. The wealth consists of two sacks of gold dust bidden by a stage…
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