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Southern Highlands · Mining & the mines
18 stories in Southern Highlands's papers
It was afternoon when I left the Messina-Palermo railway and hired a carriage for Novara, 53 kilometres distant. The afternoon was warm,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →I feel truly pleased to see that Mr. Lee, Minister for Works, proposes that the iron required for the works of railway constriction and locomotives shall be obtained in our own State. Mr. Lee mentioned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the pleasantly shaded slope that an circles Ingonville, and leads to the villa named Les Ormes, Edward Danvililers,one of the passengers who had landed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fatality occurred on the Mount Lyell (Tas.) haulage line on Saturday, whereby a young man, named Arthur Wallace, was killed, and two men,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queenstown (Tas.), Saturday—An accident by which Arthur Wallace, a young man, was instantly killed, and two others, A. Rhyburg and J. Hornsey, were badly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Perhaps there are thousands of people, (says the B. D. Herald,) who have never heard of the Burragorang Silver Mines, and a casual description of them might be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir William Ramsay is credited with a practical solution of the old problem, regarding the extraction of gold from sea water…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Remarkable details of the courtship of Beatrice Fielding and John Fritchley, and of the tragedy which ended their lives on 14th December, were told to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The naval position in the Far East is one of intense interest, and of the highest importance, not only to then immediate protagonists, but to the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Before the advent of railways nearly all the coal of London came up the Thames "Sea-coal" was the name of it, and even now thirteen…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Intense excitement prevailed at Pelaw-Main and Kurri Kurri on Tuesday afternoon. Shortly afternoon one of the American machine coal-cutter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fatal accident happened at Loch Lomond mine, Monkerai, on Monday last. An old miner named Richard Fitzgerald was bring raised to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Orange, Tuesday.—Great excitement prevailed in town this morning, when it became known that a phenomenal find had been made at Pine Creek. About a fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An outbreak of fire wau discovered at the Stanford Merthyr colliery in the Mait'and district at 2 o'clock on Sunday morning. Fatnes and a snoke belable 50 ft hight out of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A big elephant, appearing at a place of entertainment in New York, was lately put under chloroform and had her teeth inspected by a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A terrible colliery explosion, so disastrous that there is reason to fear that for loss of life it will rank with the worst accidents in the South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Official figures show that 877,057 persons were employed in the mines of the United Kingdom last year, and that 689,967 of this total worked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I dess 'ey's not a boy in town 'At's luckier 'am, me, Tause mamma she jus' let me have My firstsus Tismus tree,…
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