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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1895

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The Clieton Mines. Sydney, Monday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 January 1895 · page 2

The Clifton management and South Clifton Colliery have withdrawn the notice of reductions, And the men continue work; but they have…

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Gold Beceeps and Coinage. Sydney, Monday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 January 1895 · page 2

The mint coined £3,670,000 in soverigns during the year. The gold received for coinage was 867,72R ounces. Queensland contributed the…

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It Is Not All Gold That Glitters. Stdney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 9 January 1895 · page 3

A man named George Marshall has been committed for trial for passing gilded shillings as severeigns…

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Telegrams. Intercolonia[?] Colliery Troubles. Sydney, January 22

The Western Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1895 · page 2

The Glebe miners have rejected, by two to one, a motion censuring the district officers and calling on them to resign owing to a petition from unio[?]ist miners for…

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Mining. Sydney, January 22

The Western Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1895 · page 2

Quartz specimens, showing gold freely, have been brought into Pambula from a new rush near Wolumba. The report of the discovery of s rich gold…

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Cobar Mining. Cobar

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 2

News has just come in that extraordinary rich stone has been struck on the lower levels of Drysdale and Eldorado. The deep shafts of Drysdale…

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Miners' Troubles. Sydney, January 29

The Western Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1895 · page 2

The Greta unionist miners' have written to the manage to receive a deputation to arrange terms for their return to work. The Wallsend unionists have accepted the…

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The Wallsend Miners. Work to Be Resumed. Newcastle

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 30 January 1895 · page 2

The Wallsend unionist miners, 459 out of 620 voting, have accepted the company's terms by a majority of 21, and work Will be resumed to-morrow…

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Miners' Troubles. Sydney, February 1

The Western Herald · Saturday 2 February 1895 · page 2

By a majority of 31 votes the miners employed at Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery, last night decided to accept the proposal of the Directors for the…

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The West Australian Goldfields

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 5 February 1895 · page 2

COOLOGABDIE, Wednesday.--There is great excitement to-day over the news of a find in the Twenty- five Mile district. The story of this great find is remarkable. A party of four, three of whom had…

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Miners' Troubles. Sydney, February 5

The Western Herald · Wednesday 6 February 1895 · page 3

The attempt by he district officers of the Northern Miners' Association to collect the increased strike levy has proved a failure…

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The Greta Miners. Greta

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1895 · page 2

The Greta unionist miners, who have been 20 months out of work, are delighted with the delegate board's recommendation that all strikes…

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Miners' Troubles. Sydney, February 8

The Western Herald · Saturday 9 February 1895 · page 2

The Greta unionist miners, who have been two months out of work, are delighted with the Delegate Board's recommendation that all strikes be declared off…

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Prospecting for Gold at Byrock

The Western Herald · Saturday 9 February 1895 · page 2

Mr. Waddell has been urging the Minister for Mines to make a special grant to help to prospect the country for gold in the neighbourhood of Byrock. This Mr. Smith…

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Mining. a Phenomenal Assay

The Western Herald · Saturday 9 February 1895 · page 2

The police magistrate at Cobar has wired to the Minister for Mines that an assay received from the department of ferruginous quartz, from the old Billagoe mine, yielded…

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Miners' Troubles. Sydney, February 19

The Western Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 2

The Wallsend Lodge, by 155 to 80, has withdrawn from the Northern Miners' Association, 306 members abstaining from voting…

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Mining. Amphitheatre Rush

The Western Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 3

Great excitement was caused in Cobar on Tuesday, when it was discovered that gold had been struck on Amphitheatre run, 8 miles from here. A prospector named Rule…

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Mining. Wyalong Stone. Sydney, February 22

The Western Herald · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 3

[?] the stone being struck below [?] the shafts is proving richer [?] above that level…

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Intercolonial. Miners' Troubles. Sydney, February 26

The Western Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1895 · page 2

The Greta minors announce their willingness to accept the conditions offered by the management and to make an agreement for a definite period, and asking to be…

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Great Cobar Copper Mine. Sydney, March 1

The Western Herald · Saturday 2 March 1895 · page 2

The Great Cobar Copper Company has declared a dividend of sixpence per share…

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