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Mining & the mines, 1892

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Militia Attacked By Miners. Many Op the Rioters Killed. Reported Capture of a Colonel. London, August 19

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 August 1892 · page 2

Serious fighting has occurred between the miners and the state militia at Coal Creek and Chatanooga, in Tennessee. The miners three times attacked the troops, who replied…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 25 August 1892 · page 2

The following ore the sales reported by the Sydney stock brokers Broken Hill—sales 57b 6d, 57s 9d Block 10—ex div. 53s 6d, sales 52s…

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The Mining Riots in Tennessee. Imprisonment of Nashville Citizens. London, August 22

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 25 August 1892 · page 2

Colonel Carries, who at the head of a military force, has suppressed the mining riots in Tennessee, has arrested and imprisoned 250 citizens of Nashville, the…

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The Tennessee Mining Riots. Convicts Again Working in the Mines. London, August 25

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 August 1892 · page 6

The mining riots in Tennessee ore now quite over, and quietude restored. The convict laborers, who were forcibly deported by the unionists from the mines back to the…

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The Broken Hill Strike. Re-opening the Mines. a Tremendous Tulmut. Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 August 1892 · page 2

A MULTITUDE of people by 8 o'clock this morning had assembled opposite the Proprietary Company's office. The night had been wonderfully quiet. The morning broke…

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Colliery Disaster in Wales a Hundred and Forty Miners Entombed. Bravery of Rescue Parties. Forty Men Saved. London, Aug. 26

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1892 · page 2

A terrible colliery explosion took place to-day at Bridgend, about l7 miles west of Cardiff, in South Wales. Owing to an explosion in the colliery,…

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The Difficulty at the Homestead Mine. London, August 29

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1892 · page 2

Many of the miners employed at Messrs. Carnegie and Co.'s Homestead mine have again struck work in consequence of the employment of free labourers…

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The Bridgend Colliery Disaster. Rescue Efforts Abandoned. Number of Victims 107. a Mansion House Relief Fund Initiated. London Aug. 29

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 1 September 1892 · page 2

No further rescues have been effected at the Bridgend Colliery where yesterday 40 of of the miners entombed by an explosion were brought to the surface alive, The…

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Preliminary Notice of Intention to Cancel Certain Gold-mining Leases

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 2 September 1892 · page 2

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed to cancel the undermentioned gold mining [?] cancellation there of will be published in the Government Gazette of 13th September, 1892,…

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The Miners' Strike. Broken Hill

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 10 September 1892 · page 6

IN spite of the stormy weather this afternoon, the strike meeting on the reserve was largely attended, and speeches somewhat of a revolutionary character were made. Mr…

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The Miners Strike at Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 15 September 1892 · page 3

The Argus correspondent gives the following:—BROKEN HILL., MONDAY. The suggestion thrown out by Mr. Sleath…

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Gazette Notices. Authorities to Mine

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 September 1892 · page 4

RETURN of authorities to mine, issued in terms of Section 28, Mining Act, 1874, and of applications for permission to mine in terms of that section, not yet issued,—published in…

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Mining. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 17 September 1892 · page 2

There was great improvements in the silver market to-day. Clearing prices were:—Broken Hill—sales 76s 6d…

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The Miners Strike at Broken Hill. Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 17 September 1892 · page 3

To-day (says the Argus correspondent) will be memorable in the urinals of Broken Hill, and will long be remembered as being the most important day in connection with the…

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Work on the Mines. Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 20 September 1892 · page 3

According to the latest returns from the proprietary mine there are now 310 hands on the mine, including everybody, from the manager to the office boy. Mr. Howell states…

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Gold in West Australia. a Lucky Prospector. Perth

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 20 September 1892 · page 3

On Saturday afternoon the Commissioner of Police received news from Southern Cross, stating that a magnificent discovery of gold had been made about 110 miles off an…

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The Harrier Miners' Strike. Disturbance in Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 24 September 1892 · page 8

ON Tuesday handbills were distributed throughout Sydney calling a mass meeting for that night at the Queen's statue. It was the intention to have a torchlight procession…

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The West Australian Goldfields. Perth

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 September 1892 · page 3

Baldwin and party, who went out prospecting for silver n few weeks since, have returned to Geraldton with some good looking specimens, obtained to the eastward,…

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Adelong Gold-mining Leases

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 30 September 1892 · page 2

A public meeting was held at the Galates hall on Saturday night last, for the purpose of considering matters in connection with the gold-mining leases on this gold-field. There was a large attendance of…

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Adelong News. Gold-mining Leases

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 4 October 1892 · page 2

SEPTEMBER 30.—On Monday night last, at the Royal hotel, the deputation appointed by a public meeting waited upon Mr. W. H. J. Slee. Inspector of Mines, etc., to bring under his notice…

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