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Mining & the mines, 1873

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Coal

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 531

The export of coal from Newcastle for the week ending 18th April is 16,429 tons, of which 4384 were shipped to Sydney, 1941 to Melbourne, 420 to Adelaide, 687 to Walaroo, 390 to New Zealand, 250 to New Caledonia, 1880…

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Mining Reports

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 16

Comet, Wattle Flat.—Under date 15th instant, the mining manager reports: " I made but poor progress last week, as I had great delay in getting the timber in from the bush. I have now timbered 8 feet, making…

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Mining Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 16

A number of miners, including Mr. Beyers, of the firm of Beyers and Holtermann, have visited the Yalwal Gold-fields, Shoalhaven. The machinery for the Fern Bank…

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Ironbarks Gold-field. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 532

"SIR,—My attention has been drawn to a letter from "Miner" in your issue of the 19th instant, and I regret that a statement so utterly contrary to actual fact should have been foisted upon, you as a truthful one. I should be…

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The Mining Record

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 530

THERE was a better feeling on the 18th in Krohmans and Carroll Beards shares, holders asking advanced rates. No sales reported. The managers of the Cowflat Copper Co…

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Mining. Friday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 7

A FURTHER decline in the value of gold shares occurred to-day. There was very little disposition to buy, except at still lower prices than holders required. Copper shares dull. Drummond…

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Condobolin. New Gold-field at Cargilligo Lake. (From a Correspondent.) April 18

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 16

Just as I finished my last letter, and even before I had time to post it, news arrived that a new gold field had been discovered, but where was the great…

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Co-operative Mining. [From Our Home Rule Correspondent.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 15

THE time is at hand on the Western goldfields when, owing to the depths of claims like the Black Lead, Caledonian and Britannia claims, the difficulty and expense attendant on the working of them, will compel…

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Country and Mining News. [From Our Correspondent.] Parramatta. April 23

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 6

IN consequence of the death of Alderman Williams the number of aldermen for this borough has been reduced to eleven, and the dead-look has been brought toan end. At 3 p.m. this day a special meeting of the Parramatta…

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Clarence River Gold Fields—Little River Reefs. (From Our Correspondent.) April 16

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 15

CONSIDERABLE depression has been felt here lately from the fact that few crushings have transpired. A few tons from No. 2 Golden Spur yielded satisfactorily, but the actual return has not yhet been made…

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Clarence River Gold Fields.—little River Reefs. (From Our Correspondent.) April 16

Empire · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 3

CONSIDERABLE depression has been felt here lately from the fact that few crushings have transpired. A few tons from No. 2 Golden Spur yieided satisfactorily, but the actual return has not yet been made…

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Telegrams This Day Kabat Committed on Another Charge. Arrival of Italian War-ship Garibaldi. New Water-pipe Iron Foundry. Maize Firmer. Adelaide Wheat Weaker. Bathurst Assizes. the New Rush-near Forbes. Railway Survey, Yield of Gold in Queensland. Earthquake at Melbourne. Gas Explosion. Man Buried Alive. [Per Anglo-australian Press Telegram Agency.] Melbourne, Friday, 8.26 p.m

Evening News · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 2

Kabat has been committed for trial on another charge of altering acceptances. The Italian frigate Garibaldi has arrived, after a stormy passage from New Zealand…

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The Coal Question

Evening News · Monday 28 April 1873 · page 3
Also in Empire

ON Friday, the 21st February, in the House of Commons, Mr. Mundella moved for a select committee to inquire into the causes of the present dearness and scarcity of coal. He did not say that there was a…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 April 1873 · page 7

A SPECIAL meeting of shareholders of the Great Tumberumba G. S. Co., Surface Hill, was held yesterday, when the deed of settlement, was considered and adopted. The works at the…

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Telegrams This Day Bathurst Assizes. Coal Mining in Victoria. Latest Commercial and Mining. Huster's Claim. the Melbourne Assizes. Suicide at Geelong. the French War Steamer Rhine. Bathurst

Evening News · Monday 28 April 1873 · page 2

The following cases have been disposed of it the Circuit Court before Mr. Justice Faucett:—Eugene Beaumont, horse-stealing; pleaded guilty; eighteen months. John…

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Mining News. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 April 1873 · page 3

HILL END AND VICINITY.—On Saturday the Times publishes a report, dated the previous day, in which it says:—Mathewson's Shakespeare has cut the Star of Peace vein, and they are at present raising some first-class ston[?]…

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Minerals. Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 April 1873 · page 5

Mr. John Mackenzie, F.G.S., the Government Examiner of Coal-fields, has taken a great amount of trouble to exemplify our coal-fields in the most practical manner possible. He exhibits first of all a map or plan of the colony showing…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Tuesday 29 April 1873 · page 2

The second half-yearr meeting of the Boolboonda Copper-mining Compan, (Limited), was held yesterday, when the report was brought up. The principal features of that document are appended:—During the…

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Mining. Monday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 April 1873 · page 5

THE Share market does not yet present any indications, of recovering from the stagnation produced by the operations of plungers and jobbers. To those who have shares in good…

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