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Southern Highlands · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1891

6 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Box Vale Coal Company

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 14 January 1891 · page 2

WE desire to draw the attention of the public to the advertisement of the Box Vale Coal Company, which appears in another column, as we feel sure it will be to their advantage to…

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Important Mining Discovery

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 17 January 1891 · page 3

THE mining warden, Mr. F. R. Wilshire, P.M., reports that the men prospecting the Wingecarribee River for goms, &c., under the recommendation and assistance of the…

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Fatal Search for Gold

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 2

IT is reported in Perth that about 400 men are on the Shaw River; to the north west. Only half are doing Well. Several large nuggets hare been found, one weighing 140z., another 200oz., and smaller…

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Electricity Direct From Coal

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 11 February 1891 · page 1

IN response to the irrepressible American interviewer, Mr. Edison recently made the following statement:— "I am now engaged on the vital question of electricity—namely,…

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Public School at Berrima Colliery

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 25 February 1891 · page 2

IN another column will be found an advertisement calling for tenders (or the erection of a schoolroom and teacher's residence at the Berrima Colliery. The tenders are returnable until the 13th March…

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Two Men Killed in a Mine

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 15 August 1891 · page 3

A SHOCKING sceident occurred at the East Consols mine, Broken Hill, at 1 o'clock on Wednesday morning, by which two men lost their lives and another was serionsly…

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