LOCAL & GENERAL. Coal for Victoria
TENDERS for the supply of coal were accepted by the Victoria Government yesterday for the Melbourne, Williamstown, and Sandridge lines of railway—…
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Mining & the mines, 1881
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Explosions in Coal Mines
The Royal Commission appointed in 1879 to inquire into the cause of accidents in mines have concluded the taking of evidence. the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[From the Sydney Papers.] Latest from the Gold-fields
TEMORA, Saturday.—£90 worth of gold has been obtained from specimens in Head and Aldridge's Agnes reef. The best specimen was preserved intact. No…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Export of Coal. for the Week Ending April 22, 1881
The export of coal from the Port of Newcastle, is shown by the following copy of the official returns supplied us by the several collieries. No returns have been…
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A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was held in the Protestant Hall, on Saturday evening, April 23rd. Mr. John G. Gregory occupied the chair…
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YESTERDAY a painful mishap occurred to a miner, named William Moon, at Bulli Colliery. A piece of stone falling from above canted two props, which fell across…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[From the Sydney Papers.] Mount Browne Gold Diggings
WILCANNIA, Monday.—News from Mount Browne is most encouraging. The following is from the official reports from the police camp at Mount Poole,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Work at Bulli
THE Illawarra Mercury of Friday says: "Work at the pit, though not to say very bad of late, is not all that could be desired in the way of being constant or…
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THIS morning, Mr. Mackenzie, Examiner of Coal Fields for New South Wales, will make an official examination of the old coal workings which extend under…
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THE S.S. Lennox, Captain D. Scott, sailed yesterday for Hongkong with the largest quantity of coal in one bottom that has ever been taken from this port. She had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fortification Works and the Old Coal Workings under Flagstaff Hill
THE contract in connection with the fortification and defence works at Newcastle, has, our readers our aware, already reached a very decided point on Flagstaff, of…
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THE output of the Mount Keira colliery during last fortnight was the largest for the same length of time that has yet taken place at the mine. Although work…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TELEGRAMS. Wharfage Rates on Coal
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At a meeting of the Executive Council held to-day, it was decided to abolish the wharfage rates on coal at Newcastle and Wollongong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LOCAL & GENERAL. Abolition of Wharfage Rates on Coal
IT will be seen from our telegraphic columns that at a meeting of the Executive Council held yesterday afternoon the Government decided to abolish the…
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BY a paragraph in yesterday's issue, it will have been seen by our readers that the Executive have at last abolished the above obnoxious impost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Workings under Flagstaff Hill
SINCE referring to the old coal shafts under Captain Allan's Hill (on which the fortification works are being erected)active work has been going on there to trace the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Export of Coal. for the Week Ending May 20, 1881
THE export of coal from the Port of Newcastle, is shown by the following copy of the official returns, supplied us by the several collieries. No returns have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Illawarra Coal Trade
THE Mercury of 20th inst. says:—The Mount Keira colliery has been very busy of late. So much has this been the case that the schooner Merchantman has had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Goldfields
A CORRESPONDENT of the Tamworth News writing from Nundle on Wednesday, says:—"Romining on the goldfields, the continued drought is almost putting a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lambton Miners
The above miners held a special meeting on Saturday, Mr. Jas. Hadwell in the charis. The business of the meeting was to consider notices of motion…
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