Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Mining & the mines, all years

Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1873

2,042 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 103

Iron Miners' Look-out. Singapore, May 25

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 May 1873 · page 689

There is a lock-out of 7000 ironstone miners in Cleveland (Yorkshire), which it is feared will paralyse the North of England iron trade…

Continued on Trove, page 689 →

Who Proffts Most By The Coal Famine Prices?

Empire · Saturday 31 May 1873 · page 3

The Leeds Mercury writes:—We believe that there are at least 20,000 tons of coal consnamed in the borough of Leeds every week. Every shilling advance, then per ton of conrse, means L1000, and as there has been…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Who Profits Most By The Coal Famine Prices?

Evening News · Saturday 31 May 1873 · page 4

The Leeds Mercury writes:—We believe that there are at least 20,000 tons of coal consumed in the brough of Leeds every week. Every shilling advances, then per ton, of course, means L1000, and as there has been…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Truf Libel Case. the Sydney Gold Cup and the Horse Commodore

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 May 1873 · page 685

AT the City Police Court on the 23rd (before Mr. Start, P.M., and Messrs. Wilton, King, Marks, and Lloyd. J.P.) Ignatius Feigl, printer and publisher of the Melbourne Evening Herald, was charged, on a criminal information…

Continued on Trove, page 685 →

Country and Mining News. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Parramatta. May 27

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 May 1873 · page 6

DECLARATION OF THE POLL.—The official declaration of the poll was made on Tuesday, at the court house, by the returning-officer, H. Taylor, Esq., as follows:—R. A. Ritchie, 97; E. Mason, 95; majority for Ritchie, 2. The…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Writing a Threatening Letter—singular Mining Statements. (From the Argus, May 27.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 May 1873 · page 9

SOME remarkable statements relative to an alleged fraud in the formation of a mining company were made at the City Police Court yesterday. Edward N. Kitchen was charged on warrant with writing to…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

The No. 1 Independent Quartz Mining Company. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 May 1873 · page 9

SIR,—I notice in your issue of yesterday your Hill End correspondent stated that a rumour is in circulation that part of the Company's ground is jumped; that when the lease was surveyed, 50 feet, or yards,…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 June 1873 · page 5

RAPPS G. M. Co.—The mining manager reports, under date 29th May, as follows:—"The driving of last week in upper drive is 4 feet, total length 65 feet; we have slate yet. Drove 6 feet in lower drive, total longth 20 feet;…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Latest Mining

Empire · Monday 2 June 1873 · page 2

Eisenstnedter. New Banca Tin Mine, Stanthorpe.— The following is a copy of a telegram received from mining manager:—Fourteen tons tin ore washed this week, with three boxes, fifty-one men. Prospects very…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Great Michopochotan Mine, and the Yield Therefrom. [Communicated.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 June 1873 · page 5

SOME twenty odd years since, when a mining excitement that had run rampant through all classes in London was somewhat upon the wane, there arrived in the Thames, from an American seaport, the good…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Latest Mining. Evening News Office

Evening News · Monday 2 June 1873 · page 2

Eisenstaedter New Banca Tin Mine, Stanthorpe.—The following is a copy of a telegram received from mining manager:—Fourteen tons tin are washed this week, with three boxes, fifty-one men. Prospects very…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Telegrams This Day the Melbourne Government and the Mail Service. the Border Duties. Dr. Von Mueller. Extensive Land Selections at Bombala. Death of Mr. Beeston. Direct Inspiration From Heaven. Latest Commercial and Mining. &c., &c., &c. NEWCASTLE. Monday, 1.11 p.m

Evening News · Monday 2 June 1873 · page 2

Mr. Beeston, late traffic manager on the Northern railway, died last night…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Latest Mining

Empire · Tuesday 3 June 1873 · page 4

The manager of the Prospectors' Company No. 10 North reports that the lease for 10 acres has been duly applied for in the name of the trustees, and the rent paid. The cap of the reef has been stripped, and…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Mining. Monday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 June 1873 · page 5

JUDGING by the state of the Share market to-day, the panic in mining stock does not appear to have yet reached its worst stage, and the tendency is still to lower prices. Coal shares…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Shocking Mining Catastrophe

Empire · Tuesday 3 June 1873 · page 4

ONE of the most terrible mining accidents that over happened in the district occurred yesterday evening at the Golden Fleece Company's mine, by which a wellknown and much esteemed gentleman was precipitated…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Solferino Gold Fields. [From a Correspondent.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 June 1873 · page 3

OF the sixty or seventy claims on the hill barely fifteen are working, aad what is more astonishing, out of, that fifteen not five are worked by Sydney floated companies; the rest are worked by bands of good plodding miners…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Mining News. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 June 1873 · page 3

HILL END AND VICINITY.—It is reported by the Observer of Saturday that mining matters have moved along much as usual during the week and, taken as a whole, bear an upward and improved tendency. Krohmann's has finished…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Latest Mining

Empire · Wednesday 4 June 1873 · page 3

The mining manager of the Rebecca Gold mining Company, Wattle Flat, under dute 1st motant, reports —"There is no difference as yet in the width of the vein; what stone there is shows excellent gold. I think…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Shocking Mining Catastrophe

Evening News · Wednesday 4 June 1873 · page 3

ONE of the most terrible mining accidents that ever happened in the district occurred yesterday evening at the Golden Fleece Company's mine, by which a well-known and much esteemed gentleman was precipitated…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Mining. Tuesday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 June 1873 · page 8

THOUGH the sales of shares reported on 'Change were less numerous than usual, the market assumed a healthier tone to-day, and buyers appeared to come forward more freely. Inquiry…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →