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Mining & the mines, 1893

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The Coolgardie Goldfields

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 November 1893 · page 5

MR. W. J. Ferris, late Mayor of Parrarmatta, has just returned from the Coolgardie goldfields, after an absence of three months. Mr. Ferris describes the country as a wild,…

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Gold at Grong Grong

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 4

The discovery of a quartz reef at Grong Grong about fifteen miles from Narandera, is beginning to attract some attention, and three is a likelihood of a good deal of land…

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Mining in Australia

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 5

IN every way Australian mining promises a big revival. The refractory and the poor reefs even, which once baffled the intrepid prospector, have been robbed of almost all…

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THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser. "This is true liberty, when freeborn men, Having to advise the public, may speak free." Milton. Thursday, November 16, 1893. the Mining on Private Property Bill

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 16 November 1893 · page 2

IT will be learned with general satisfaction that the Mining on Private Property Bill has at all events passed its second reading stage in the…

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The Cremorne Coal Discovery. Further Applications for Leases

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 November 1893 · page 5

Several further applications have teen received by the Mines Department, under [?]setion 27 of the Mines Act, for authority to mine for coal in the vicinity of Sydney. One…

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The Coal War. Work Resumed at the Old Wages. London, Nov. 17

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 21 November 1893 · page 2

THE conference proposed by Mr. Gladstone, between representatives of the coal miners on strike and those of the colliery proprietors, took place to day uuder the presidency…

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Parliament. Mining on Private Property. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 23 November 1893 · page 2

In the Assembly to-day, in reply to a question, Mr. Lyne asserted that there was plenty of depth in Port Jackson for the Orlando at any time or tide. He made a…

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Mining on Private Property

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 25 November 1893 · page 10

IN the Assembly on Tuesday the following was the pith of the speeches on this bill:— Mr. Copeland on mining on private property: I am prepared to recognise the…

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Coolgardie Goldfield

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 25 November 1893 · page 10

THE following letter (says the Temora Independent) has been received by Mr. Denis Buckley from his old friend Mr. John Donovan, well known here as a most capable…

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The Coolgardie Gold-field Sufferings From Thirst

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 28 November 1893 · page 3

A letter has been received in Sydney from Coolgardie written by one Walter Besant, who went there some [?] weeks ago with his father, Besant states that he went out to a…

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The Cremorne Coal Bore

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 28 November 1893 · page 3

Professor David and Mr. Sice, chief inspector of mines, have ascertained the temperature of the Cremorne coal bore, which is 2927 feet deep, with a thermometer…

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The Coolgardie Goldfields. Sufferings From Thirst. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 28 November 1893 · page 2

A letter has been received in Sydney from Coolgardie written by one Walter Besant who went there some 10 weeks ago with his father. Besant states that he went out to a…

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Yalgogrin Mines

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 29 November 1893 · page 7

EVERYTHING here is looking very well indeed. There is plenty of grass and water, and a good thunderstorm would top everything up nicely as then there would be no…

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Gold Discovery at Bairnsdale

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 30 November 1893 · page 2

An important discovery of rich gold bearing stone is reported from Bulumweal, about 20 miles north of Bairnsdale. A party of prospectors, whilst searching for gold, came…

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Shocking Mining Accident at Eaglehawk. a Miner Falls on to an Exploding Charge

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 30 November 1893 · page 4

A MINER named Lathby met with shocking injuries by a fall down a winze in the Lady Barkly mine, Eaglehawk, on Monday, and narrowly escaped being blown to pieces by…

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Sensational Mining Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 December 1893 · page 2

A BENDIGO telegram of Monday says:—This afternoon at 3 o'clock just as shifts were being changed at the mine of the Hustler's Royal Reserve No. 2 Company…

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Gold Mine in an Orchid

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 December 1893 · page 4

GREAT personages will go far upon the chance of buying a Cypripendium insigne Sanderoe, and carry a long purse with them (writes the London Evening Standard). The first…

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The West Australia Gold Fields

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 December 1893 · page 5

Splendid rains fell at Soul hem Cross on Tuesday morning, nearly a quarter of an inch being registered, replenishing the tanks. It is not known whether the downpour…

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The West Australian Gold Fields. Threatened Lynching at Coolgardie. Perth

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 December 1893 · page 2

AT an influential meeting held at Geraldton, a resolution was passed urging the Government to construct a railway to the Murchison gold-fields, whose permanency has long since…

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The Nemo Dramatic Company. "All That Glittrs Is Not Gold."

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 December 1893 · page 2

The latest combination of aspirants for fame on the amateur histrionic stage, recently formed under the name of the Nemo Dramatic Company presented their initial…

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