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Mining & the mines, 1873

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The Mining Record

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 August 1873 · page 214

THERE was nothing to report in the mining market on the 9th instant. A report of the Peak Downs Copper Mining Company for the past twelve months has been…

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Mining Reports. Peak Downs Copper Mining Company. the Directors' Report

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 August 1873 · page 14

The following is a copy of the twenty-first half-yearly report of the Peak Downs Copper Mining Company, presented to the shareholders at the adjourned half-yearly meeting on Wednesday last:—"The directors…

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Country and Mining News (From Our Correspondents.) Parramatta. August 14

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 August 1873 · page 7

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—A man named Timothy Fleming, a navvie, employed on the railway near the junction at Parramatta, was knocked down by a train. It appeared that while the main train, which arrived on Tuesday morning at 6.30,…

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Law Supreme Court.—friday. Banco Court. Sitting for Trial of Causes. Important Mining Case. (Before his Honor the Chief Justice Sir Alfred Stephen, C B and a jury of four.) MITCHELL V. Vickery and Another

Evening News · Saturday 16 August 1873 · page 2

The Attorney-General and Mr. Salomons, instructed by Mr. [?]. Evans, appeared for plaintiff; Sir W. M. Manning, Q C., and Mr. Darley, instructed by Messrs, Alien, Bowden, and Alien appeared for defendants…

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Telegrams This Day Fire at the Victoria Woollen Mills. the Victorian Coursing Meeting. New Coal Company at the Borehole. Parliamentary Cricket Matches. Shooting and Wounding at Duneed Victorian Shipowner's Association. the Derby and Metropolitan. Iron Works on the Derwent. Exodus to Port Darwin. Latest Commercial. &c., &c., &c. GRENFELL. Friday 12 p.m

Evening News · Saturday 16 August 1873 · page 2

The banquet to Mr. Parkes this evening was a great success. There were sixty gentlemen present. Mr. Parkes made a reply to Mr. Forster's (Armidale) speech, and promised to…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Monday 18 August 1873 · page 3

The following is a copy of a telegram received from the mining manager of Eisenstaedter's New Banca Tin Mines. It is dated 16th August:—"Washed this week 6 tons 14 cwts tin ore. 21 men employed. Dispatched…

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Coal-fields of Victoria

Empire · Monday 18 August 1873 · page 3

THE following report on the coal-fields of Victoria has been drawn up by Mr. Mackenzie, and submitted to the Minister of Mines:- I have visited and examined the coal and strata at…

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Our Coal and Coal Ports. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 August 1873 · page 2

SIR,—While at Bulli a few days since, your paper of the 7th instant reached me, and I find a paper was read by Mr. James Manning, before the Royal Society of New South Wales, on "Our Coal, and our Coal…

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Mining. Saturday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 August 1873 · page 5

THE first half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Sideling Gold Mining Co. was held at the company's office, on Saturday, at 11.30 a.m., Mr. John Kinloch in the chair. The…

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Mr Mackenzie's Report on the Coal Fields of Victoria

Evening News · Monday 18 August 1873 · page 2

THE following report on the coal fields of Victoria has been drawn up by Mr. Mackenzie, and submitted to the Minister of Mines: - I have visited and examined the coal and strats at…

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Country and Mining News (From Our Correspondents.) Hill End and Tambarroora. August 12

Empire · Monday 18 August 1873 · page 3

SINCE my last letter I have visited the Dirt Holes, Tambaroora, and Golden Gully, and have to report a steady progress in the mines now being worked. The Red Sill, Ajax, and Independent reefs ore gold-bearing,…

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The Stanthorpe Tin Mines

Empire · Tuesday 19 August 1873 · page 3

THE Queensland Minister for Works and Mines has received the following official reports on the mines in the Clermont and Stanthorpe district:- Stanthorpe, July 25, 1873…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Tuesday 19 August 1873 · page 3

In mining affairs, says the Hill End Observer of Saturday, there is but little fresh to report. Work is progressing as usual in most of the hill claims. At the Frenchaman's the prospects still continue good, and fally 3oz…

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The Victorian Coal-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 August 1873 · page 3

THE following is the report of Mr. John Mackenzie, F.G.S., Government Examiner of Coal-fields, New South Wales, on the coal-fields of the south-eastern district of Victoria:—…

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Mining. Monday, Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 August 1873 · page 5

IN the Share market a very fair business has been done, but in local companies quotations remain about the same. In gold, Rapps changed hands at 3s. 6d. to 4s. Hustler's…

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Peak Downs Copper Mining

Empire · Tuesday 19 August 1873 · page 4

"DON'T count your chickens before they are hatched" would appear to be the best motto in future for the Peak Downs Copper Company. No doubt it is the business of directors…

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Lake Macquarie and the Coal-fields. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 August 1873 · page 5

SIR,—My attention has been drawn to two letters on the above aubject—one signed "New South Wales," the other "Veritas," which appeared in recent numbers of vour valuable paper—by a friend who requested me to offer a…

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Supposed Suicide of Mr. Wardill. the Perjury Case at Geelong. the Waterloo Coursing Cup. Dismasted Vessel. Fire Insurance Losses. Opening of North-eastern Railway. the Tasmanian Derby. Diggers for Port Darwin. Latest Commercial and Mining. &c., &c., &c. MELBOURNE. Monday, 5.25 p.m

Evening News · Tuesday 19 August 1873 · page 2

Wardill's arrest was telegraphed in mistake. He is not in custody, but has suddenly disappeared. It is feared that he has committed suicide. The river has been dragged, but no…

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Mining News. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 August 1873 · page 3

EMU CHEEK.—In its report under date the 16th, the Mining Record observes that the Grenfell Consols Company are raising stone of a more superior quality than has hitherto been raised for a considerable time past. The reef…

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Mining. Tuesday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 August 1873 · page 5

THE only transactions to note in gold are sales of Brown's at 10s., Rapps, 4s. 3d. to 4s., and New North Clunes at £73. In copper, Mount Perry have changed hands at 16s., and Peak…

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