Awful Colliery Explosion
A COLLIERY explosion, which resulted in the loss of 119 lives, occurred yesterday morning at Risea, a town with a considerable number of inhabitants…
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Mining & the mines, 1880
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Coal Cliff Miners
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Coal Cliff miners resumed work this morning on the understanding that the necessity for a reduction of wages should be decided by…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Gold has been discovered at Five-Mile Creek, Uralla, at a depth of five feet on each side of the creek. It is calculated to yield an ounce…
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THE Ballarat Courier states that "nearly a half ton of gold was sent by one of the local banking institutions to the head office in Melbourne on Tuesday. The gold…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—News has arrived of another rush at Back Scrub Yard, Cootamundra…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(From the Sydney Papers.) The Illawarra Coal Miners' Strike
WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.—After the general meeting of miners on Friday, the secretary of the Bulli Lodge communicated the result to the local manager…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The proceedings relative to the question of arbitration on the hewing rate of coal in the Newcastle district commenced this morning in the…
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THE monthly meeting of the Lambton Miners was held in Stoker's Druid's Hall on Wednesday evening last. There was a largo attendance, and Mr. Thos. Smith…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The arbitration case re getting coal is not concluded, but adjourned till to-morrow…
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AT the Illawarra Court of Requests on Monday last, a rather novel case was hoard. Honry Woods, a coal-miner, sued P. Lahiff, Manager of Mount Pleasant…
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THE above report for the year 1879 is to hand, and in accordance with our usual custom we extract such items as we thimk will be of importance to the…
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GRAFTON, Friday.—A party of miners, whilst sinking a shaft at Rocky Month, to-day, picreed a nine feet seam of coal, and have not yet got through…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The arbitration board, which has been sitting since Tuesday last, for the purpose of determining the coal miners' wage question, continued…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence Capital V. Barrington Gold Mines. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—Like the old man of the mountain, our Barrington, ranges look down upon your fair city of Sydney as a benign mother upon her offspring;…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Campbell's crushing machine opened yesterday. 36 cwt. 1 qr. and 6 lb., from Melbourne Creek, near. Carcoar, crushed at the…
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AT Port Darwin the export duty on gold is considered excessive. One party claims to have got 250lb weight of nuggets within the week before last…
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COPELAND, Friday.—At a trial crushing at No. 1 claim, cast Lady Belmore (Scott and party), tributors crushed 10 tons of quartz, which yielded 28½. oz. of gold…
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THE difficulty between the mine proprietors and their late employes is only partially settled. A deputation waited on Wednesday on Mr. Lahiff,…
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AT Trunkey it is said that the extraordinary yield of 50 oz. of gold has been obtained from 2681b. of quartz, which was picked from a quantity of…
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A MEETING of the miners employed at the Newcastle Coal Mining Company's Colliery, was held in the Protestant Hall on Monday evening…
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