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Riverina · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1869

13 stories in Riverina's papers

The Station and Farm. Squatters and Miners. (From the Gundagai Times.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 10 March 1869 · page 4

ON Monday his Honor Judge Francis delivered his judgment in the case of Walsh v. Jenkins. Plaintiff is a miner at Sandy Creek, who brought an action…

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General News. the Murrumbidgee Gold-fields

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 31 March 1869 · page 3

MR. JAMES WILLOUGHBY, of pike's Reef, Murrumbidgee, sends the following description of the Belmore Reef and Pike's Reef to the Pastoral Times:—…

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Intimdatlon of Miners

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 28 April 1869 · page 1

The dispute at the Denaby Main Colliery, where nearly 400 men are locked out for joining the South Yorkshire miners' Union, continues with no prospect of a settlement. The masters still refuse to allow the men…

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Lost at the Gold Fields

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 12 June 1869 · page 4

'D'YE mind the big snaw-storm of saxty-three? Eh, but yon was an awful sair time. I was oot in it mysel, and got near smoored, forbye losing ane of my tacs, nippit with the frost…

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Provincial. Serious Colliery Disturbance

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 7 August 1869 · page 1

At a lata hour on Saturday night a very serious conflict took place between some unionist and non-unionist colliers near Sheffield. The scene of the affray is the Manor Castle pit, which belongs to Mr…

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The Ferndale Colliery Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 7 August 1869 · page 4

The inquest on the bodies of the men killed by the recent explosion at Ferndale Colliery, which was formally opened oa the 11th of June, was resumed on Thursday before Mr. G. Overtou, coroner. Mr. Wales, the…

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New Gold Fields Regulations. Part I. (To be Concluded in our next issue.) Former Regulations Repealed

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1869 · page 4

I. All Regulations hitherto in force for the management of the Gold Fields of New South Wales are hereby repealed: Provided that any existing interest or privilege shall not be…

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New Gold Fields Regulations. Part Ii. (Concluded.) Business Allotments. Business Allotments to be applied for

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 9 October 1869 · page 4

60. Any holder of a business license, who may desire to occupy lands thereunder, must make application for such authority to the Commissioner; and the holding must, when…

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Extracting Gold by Zinc

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 16 October 1869 · page 4

THE 'San Francisco Bulletin' gives the following particulars of a plan patented by Mr. D'Heureuse, of that city, for extracting gold by zinc:—WHen we fairly examine the…

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The Eurongilly Quartz Mining Company

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 16 October 1869 · page 4

THE first meeting of shareholders in the above company was held at Ballarat, on Wednesday, 6th inst. Messrs. F. Peyton, H. C. Walker, John Hardy, and W. McDonald, of Ballarat,…

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"These Are Mine." Popular Saying

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 4 December 1869 · page 3

THERE is no viler system of Humbug practised, in this little community than that which, is implied in the above three words. A couple of "jolly dogs" walk into a hotel…

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Southern Mining League. to the Editor

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1869 · page 4

SIR,—The want of union in the mining community is much to be regretted, and is seen on all gold-fields. We have before us at present a grievous example in the district of Braidwood…

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The Nomination for the Gold Fields South

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1869 · page 3

At 12 o'clook on Wednesday last about 150 persona, including all the influential residents, and among them the two candidates being present, the Returning Officer, Mr. Wilson,…

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