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792 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 40
What with the Quarter Sessions business and the Police Court proceedings, and the committal of Daniel Boon for the wilful murder of Alexander M'Mullen, we have had rather an unpleasantly exciting week of it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—In your lending article of yesterday on the above subject, you allude to the miner's right as "merely a payment for a permission to search," and you assert that "The export duty which is a [?] levied on the result is a payment…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—I desire now, with your permission, [?] direct a tention to the unnecessary [?] of this bill, [?] to the [?] assumed by the Minister in relation [?] matter that may have to be referred to erbitration. I have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →STAR of Peace G.M. Co.—Under date 3rd February the mining manager reports as follows:—"Vein in the south stope, at the 480-feet level, six inches wide; stone looks payable. Vein in the north stope at this level nine inches…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I beg to submit the following reasons why Sydney should be made a coal port. 1. Because Sydney is situated in the centre of one of the most magnificant coal-fields in the world, both as it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →OUR special correspondent says:—" Any one wishing to see a large typical new rush, or curious to know how Ballarat, Bendigo, M'Ivor, the New Zealand gold-fields, the Lachlan, and other rushes, looked in the carly days…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A terrrible colliery explosion, which it is feared, will result in more than 200 lives being lost, has just occurred at Swaithe Main Colliery, about four miles from Barnsley. The collieiy, which belonged to Messrs. Mi[?]hell and Co.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?] men were killed on December 3 at one of the Wiga[?] Coal and Iron Company's pits. They were [?]ding the shaft in the [?]age, which caught the accding one. The whole of the occupants were pitched…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE have been favoured with the last half-yearly report of the Vegetable Creek Tin Mine, which mine, we believe, was the first in the colony where tunnelling was resorted to. Since the discovery of the mine 4…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →We (Carcoar Chronicle) learn that Lawer and party, at Forest, have got through the hard rock, and are now in black wood, and hope to bottom in a few days. Carney and party are busily engaged in raising…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →THE New Zealand Herald (Auckland) thus writes: —Whilst we are enjoying the festivities of the season in Auckland, it is only right that we should give even more than a passing thought to the condition of…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Hon. Minister for Mines, Mr. Lucas, has ordered three of Webb's rotative excavators, for the purpose of testing the deep suriferous leads at Parkes, Gulgong, and Forbes. They will be leased to the local…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE twenty-sixth half-yearly meeting of the Peak Down's Copper Mining Company was holden at the Chamber of Commeree on Monday, B. Buchanan, Esq., in the chair. The directors submitted to the share…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →PUBLIC MEETING.—A large and influential public meeting was held on Monday night last at the Court-house, for the purpose of trying to urge upon the Park trustees the advisability of allowing the committee of the Parramatta Race a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Last night a terrible accident occurred at the Alexandra Pit, No 4, Haigh, belonging to the Wigan Coal and Iron Company, by which seven men lost their lives. The pit, comparatively speaking, is a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A colliery accident, by which twenty-one persons lost their lives, occurred Sere yesterday morning in the workings of the New' Tredegar Colliery, through an explosion of fire-damp. This colliery,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrible colliery explosion, which, it is feared, will result in more than 200 lives being lost, has just occurred at Swaithe Main Colliery, about four miles from Barnsley. The colliery, which belonged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The loss of life by the explosion in the Mariateye colliery in Belgium is appalling. Forty-two dead bodies have already been taken out, and it is thought that several are still in the pit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—When recently in England I was desirous of seeing the best and most approved methods of loading ships with coals, and also a port whose trade somewhat resembled that of New castle in this colony, or what the trade of Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No further progress has been made with mining legislation since our last report; the new Mining Bill has not yet been introduced, and it is rumoured that, even should it be…
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