The Proposed Export Duty on Coal and Wool
WE understand it to be the intention of Government to abandon the proposed export duty on wool and coal. Almost universally, the colonial Press have,…
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Mining & the mines, 1880
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Ferndale Colliery
THERE was no work at this colliery yesterday, but the whistle was sounded for labour to-day…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—A new gold reef has been discovered at Thornborough, Queensland…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A new copper mine has been discovered in the Bogan district. Mr. H. Nelson, the ex-member for Orange, owns one-fourth of the area,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Pinnacle Gold Mining Company, at Yalwal, near Nowra, in the Shoalhaven district orushed 124 tons of stono, which yielded…
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THE Chief Warden at Port Darwin has received the following telegram from Yam Creek:—"Four thousand ounces of gold estimated to have been taken from a piece…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Visit to the Temora Gold Fields
BY request of our, quarterly board, I decided to pay the far-famed Temora gold fields a visit. Accordingly, upon Friday evening my horse received a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Explosion
LONDON, July 15.—A terrible colliery explosion took place at Risca, by which one hundred and thirty souls perished…
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LONDON, July 15.—A terrible colliery explosion has occurred at a mine near Newport, in Wales. The number of deaths is ascertained to be 119. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cobar Copper Mines
SYDNEY, Friday.—Thirty tons copper from the Cobar Mines have reached Wellington…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Wellesley Copper Mine has forty tons of good ore at grass…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reported Payable Gold Field
SYDNEY, Friday.—It is reported that a payable gold field has boon struck at Minosa…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The prospects of the Temora Gold Field are turning out very favourable. Lead has been traced for three miles and a half. The miners are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Mining Leases
IN the Gazette of Friday, the 16th inst., a list of gold mining leases in the Hunter and Macleay districts, ready for delivery, is published. The same, if not applied…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Forrest has returned from the Temora gold fields, bringing some splendid specimens from Molloy's claim; they were obtained at a depth of…
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Twenty shafts are on sold, and some thousands of loads of dirt is at grass waiting a downfall of rain. Several dams are being erected. The sinking varies from…
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WE are informed that the following gentlemen have been nominated for the above office, viz., Messrs Moses Owen (Wallsend), David Barnett (Co-operative),…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence the Coal Miners' Average. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—As the Early Closing Association have charitably granted their employes the benefits, mentally and physically, to be acquired after 8…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Insulting a Gold Commissioner
AT the Launceston Police Court (says the Hobart Town Mercury) Bernard Shaw charged Bartholomew Bruen with using insulting language to him, he then being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TELEGRAMS. Tomora Gold Fields
SYDNEY, Thursday.—At private letter received from the Tomora gold fields, says that gold has been discovered a distance of two miles along the load, and the…
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