The Lithgow Colliery Disaster. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 February 1886 · page 3
The death of the men Doig, Rowe, and Younger has cast a gloom over the Lithgow district. Smoke is still issuing from the pit, but in comparatively small volumes, and it…
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Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 4
"I would suggest with respect to this plant which was handed to the Inspector of Forests by Mr. Government Veterinarian Stanley for examination, and also with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flooding of a Coal Mine
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1886 · page 3
NEWS was received at Sydney on Thursday that the Ferndale Colliery, Newcastle, was flooded out at 9 o'clock that morning. One man was seriously injured, and one man and…
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Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 April 1886 · page 4
READERS require to be very cautious in receiving news and reports as to the gold discoveries in the Kimberley country in Western Australia. From the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Colliery Disaster at Lithgow. (S.m. Herald Correspondent.) LITHGOW
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 April 1886 · page 2
BETWEEN 3 and 4 o'clock this afternoon an explosion took place at the Lithgow Valley Colliery, about half-a-mile from the pit's mouth. There were 13 men working in the…
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Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 1 May 1886 · page 2
THE manager, Mr. Elsbury, reports that the South Australian Quartz Company cleaned up their fortnightly crushing on Friday last. 112 tons of stone were crushed for a yield of…
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Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 May 1886 · page 5
A CORRESPONDENT of the S. M. Herald writes under date Adelaide, Friday: Mr. C. E. Deeley, of the firm Adcock Brothers and Co., merchants, Palmerston and Derby, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Curious Colony of Gold Diggers
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1886 · page 4
A LETTER from St. Petersburg in the Journal des Debate gives an interesting description of the New California, as the new gold mines discovered in the valley of the Djolgnte River…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Curious Properties of Coal Gas
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1886 · page 4
MR. THOMAS FLETCHER, of Warrington, in speaking of "Some Curious Properties of Coal," said that until lately people had been under the impression that gas was merely a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Derby and the Route to the Goldfields. (Perth Inquirer, May 5.)
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 20 May 1886 · page 3
THE township of Derby is situated on a spit of land running out into the sea, and is surrounded on two sides and the base of the side by a mangrove swamp of some 17 miles…
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The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1886 · page 4
FROM Perth, Western Australia, we learn by a lengthy report dated April 30, that very little news has come to hand from the Kimberley goldfield. A few more men, with from 20oz…
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Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 22 May 1886 · page 5
THREE hundred diggers are proceeding to Kimberley on Saturday via Cambridge Gulf, for best landing, and as the route that way is the shortest to the goldfields, and probably…
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The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 1 June 1886 · page 4
THE township of Derby is situated on a spit of land running out into the sea, and is surrounded on two sides and the base of the site by a mangrove swamp of some 17 miles in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kimberley Goldfields. Brisbane
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 2 June 1886 · page 3
Captain J. B. Darke, of the steamer Catterthun, whioh arrived at Towneville yesterday, states that the steamer Gambier, might get within five miles of the landing at…
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Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 June 1886 · page 4
MR. J. M. Cayne has arrived at Derby with gold. The following intelligence has been telegraphed to the Townsville Bulletin from its Herberton correspondent:—George…
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Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1886 · page 6
Mr. Elsbury manager of the South Australian Company of Upper Temora reports. On Friday, June 4th, 81 tons of stone from the Company's Claim were cleaned up at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gazette Notices. New Gold Field
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 6 July 1886 · page 3
County of Wynyard, pariah of Tarrabandra, area about 13 1/2 acres. The Crown Lands within the following boundaries: Commencing at the southern extremity of the west…
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The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 6 July 1886 · page 3
Part of Adelong Golf-field, reserved from conditional purchase, proclaimed 23rd December, 1861, parish of Nacka Nacka, county of Wynard, area 49 acres, within the boundaries…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tarcutta Goldfields. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1886 · page 3
SIR.—In your issue of the 7th inst. your Tarcutta correspondent refers to Beaver's line of reef coining before the public again. He says there has been great hammering at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reserve From Conditional Sale Within the Big Ben Creek. Goldfield. (Gazette No. 384, July 10.) Wagga Land-district
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 15 July 1886 · page 4
No. 1970, county Wynyard, parish Tarrabandra, about 13[?] acres. Within the Big Ben Creek goldfield, proclaimed 28th June, 1886…
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