Copper Mines.—great Barrier Island, New Zealand
SOME time ago a Company was formed in Sydney for the purpose of carrying on mining at the Great Barrier Island, New Zealand. At the time the company was formed, and…
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5 stories in Sydney's papers
The Gold Dust Seizure. -- The me[?]
[?]tallic bars and dust seized by the Custom house authorities on board the barque Nimrod, at Moore's Wharf, on Tuesday last, and supposed to contain a large…
Continued on Trove, page 1082 →The Coal Mines of England. (From W. Howitt's Visit to Remarkable Places.)
We are then in the midst of that singular region that sends forth to the south, and to foreign countries, the enormous quantities of coal that keep the fires and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →House of Commons. Monday, February 27. the Colliery System
Lord Ashley called the attention of the Home Secretary to a frightful case of cruelty perpetrated by a collier upon an apprentice, who had been subjected to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →English Extracts. Dreadful Colliery Explosion.— Twenty-seven Lives Lost. Nowcastle-on-Tyne, Friday, April 7
ONE of those fearful catastrophes, unfortunately so common in this district, occurred on Wednesday morning, shortly before eight o'clock, in the Stormont Main Colliery, the…
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