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Southern Highlands · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1884

14 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Select Poetry. Better Than Gold

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 10 May 1884 · page 4

Better than grandeur, better than gold, Than rank and titles a thousandfold, Is a healthy body and a mind at case. And simple pleasures that always please;…

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Berrima Coal Company.—annual Meeting

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 31 May 1884 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the Berrima Coal, Mining Company was held on Tuesday evening 20th instant in the committee-room of the mechanics institute Goulburn…

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Victorian Coal Company

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 14 June 1884 · page 2

IN the legislative assembly last Tuesday, Mr. Fictcher brought up the report of the Select Committee on the Victorian Coal Mining Company's Bill No. 2, which was ordered to be printed…

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Department of Mines

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 21 June 1884 · page 2

WE have to acknowledge the receipt of the annual report of the Department of Mines, New South Wales for the year 1883, from which we take the following extracts:—…

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Victorian Coal Mining Company's Bill

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 12 July 1884 · page 2

IN the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday last, on the motion of Mr. Fletcher, the Victorian Coal-mining Company's Bill (No 2) was read the third time, and transmitted to the Legislative Council…

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Mining Under Roads

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 26 July 1884 · page 2

WILLIAM and John F. Hurt have applied to the Department of Mines for permisasion to mine for coal on the water reserve No. 27, county of Camden, parish of Kembla, the extent of their eight…

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Parliamentary. Mittagong Coal-mining Company's Railway Bill (Second Reading)

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 4 October 1884 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly on Friday, 26th September, Mr. Burns move—" That this bill be now read the second time." The bill was…

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Mittagong Gold and Diamond Field

Intelligence · Wednesday 8 October 1884 · page 2

A GENTLEMAN, who called at our office yesterday morning, has supplied us with a few particulars respecting the above mines'. The distance from Bowral along the road is…

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The Victorian Coal Company

Intelligence · Wednesday 15 October 1884 · page 4
Also in The Bowral Free Press

THIS company, locally known as the new Mount Kembla Coal Company, is getting in order to practically start operations. Mr. Thomas Bertram, the efficient mining…

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Mittagong Coal-Mining Company's Bill

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 18 October 1884 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, Mr. Burns moved that the Mittagong Coalmining Company's Railway Bill be read the third time. The motion was agreed to, the…

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The Ringwood Colliery Works

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 25 October 1884 · page 2

MR. Robert Longmore has addressed the following letter to the Illawarra Mercury:—Sir,—I noticed a very enlogistic paragraph in a recent issue of the Mercury, concerning…

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Gold at Marulan

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 2

On Monday we (Goulburn Penny Post) were shown a beautiful cake of solid gold, which was found near Marulan very lately. It is about the size, and much in the form, of a child's car, with a smalll auricular…

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The Fitzroy Iron Mines, Mittagong

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 13 December 1884 · page 2

A SHORT time ago the Government invited tenders for 150,000 tons of steel rails to be manufactured in the colony. The advertisement attracted attention in England, and at a meeting of the Cleveland…

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