Coal Company
The South Australian Coal Company as to be wound up…
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Mining & the mines, 1886
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Queensland Mining Shares
The new Day Dawn Mining Company, Charters Towers, has floated its shares, which were allotted on Friday. Applications for £66,000 were refused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tasmania. Launceston, Thursday. Find of Gold
Over 120 ounces of gold has been brought into Launceston from Mount Lyell Goldfields, got by four men in three weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria. Melbourne, Wednesday. Mining and Other Bills
The Assembly have passed the Railway Rolling Stock Bill, the Amalgamation of Legal Professions Bill, the Regulations of Mines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reduction of Miners' Wages
Notices have been posted at the Kembla, Keera, and Bulli mines announcing a reduction of twopence per ton for hewing, and sixpence da…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Lambton Colliery Check Inspector's Report. "August 2nd and 3rd, 1886
"We, the undersigned, having examined the workings, travelling roads, and furnaces, report as follows:— "New Tunnel.—Fai[?]ish's Flat: An intake…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waratah Police Court Saturday, August 28. (Before Mr. R. Perrott, P.m.) Mining Regulations
MESSRS. BROUGHALL and Thomas Griffiths, owners of the Dunkirk Colliery, New Lambton, were charged at the instance of Mr. John M'Kenzie, examiner of coalfields, with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Illawarra Miners
NOTICES to colliery managers have been posted at Mount Keira, Bulli, and Mount Kembla, by the Southern Coal Proprietors' Defence Association,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cumberland Coal Company
At a meeting of the shareholders of the Cumberland Coal Company the resolutions proposed at a previous meeting were confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining News
At a meeting of sharehold of the New Nevada Silver Mining Company, the report stated that they had come across richer ore than any yet found,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia. Adelaide, Tuesday. Gold Find
A 5oz nugget of gold has been found at Blackwood Gully, 11 miles from Adelaide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Glebe Miners
A SPECIAL general meeting of the above miners was held in Mr. Simpson's Hall, on Tuesday evening, Mr. W. Hobson in the chair. The chairman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ferndale Colliery. SYDNEY
IN the Legislative Assembly, last night, the Minister for Mines laid upon the table the report of the Royal Commission on Colleries, and on the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stockton Coal Company. Breach of Mining Regulations
AT the Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. J. Mair, P.M., W. H. Shaw, G. Donald, J.P, Mr. John Evans, manager of the Stockton pit, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners' Delegate Meeting
MINUTES of a special delegate meeting held at Newcastle, September 2, 1886. Lodges represented: Borehole, Wallsend, Lambton, Co-operative, Glebe,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Colliery Fall-in
SOME excitement was caused here on Thursday evening when the report spread that a large portion of the Co-operative Colliery had fallen in. This report, like…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ferndale Colliery. Report of the Royal Commission. Reports by Mr. Croudace on Ferndale Colliery. Lambton Colliery, 20th March, 1885
Gentlemen,—In accordance with your wish I visited your colliery on Wednesday last. After examining your working plan,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Letter From Mr. Croudace to Proprietors of Ferndale, Subsequent to the Catastrophe. 22nd March, 1886. The Proprietors of the Ferndale Colliery, Newcastle
Gentlemen,—On Saturday morning I received a letter from your secretary, asking me to meet your manager at the Ferndale Colliery office, in order to give…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Kimberley Goldfields a Terrible Tramp
THE following private letter from one of the intending diggers who left Sydney for the Kimberley has been placed at our disposal, and we give it in full…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Prevention of Explosions in Coal Mines
PERHAPS the following extract from an American publication, Good Health, edited by Dr. Kellogg, may be of some interest to the readers of "Notes…
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