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978 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 49
THE five silver weddings and the one gulden ditto that are to be celebrate! during the present year at different Europe. Courts are as follows:—The golden wedding (fifty years of married life) is that of Duke Maximilian of…
Continued on Trove, page 130 →WE regret to observe from the official report which has been issued by the Department of Mines of Victoria respecting the mineral statistics of that colony that the production of gold has been steadily…
Continued on Trove, page 151 →SIR,—In your issue of the 20th July appeared a letter signed "B," upon the Newcastle coal trade. 1, for one, cannot let the contribution go unanswered, for, after reading it carefully over more than once, I can just find one truth in it—…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →THE Report, for 1877, recently issued by the Mining Department, is now before us, and from it we glean, through the unvaried testimony of the wardens and other officers on the gold-fields,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →SIR,—A friend of mine, who lives a few miles from Tuena, wroteto me a letter in which he enclosed the article which appeared in the Goulburn Herald, under the head "Thompson's Creek Copper Mines." You may judge, sir. what tay…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →SIR,—I beg to inform you that I sold the above picture to Mr. Fielding, of 170, Pitt-street; the same has been in my possession some years and exposed for sale over the matelpiece of any show-room, and not in any attic or lumber-room…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FOR twelve months a dispute at Araluen has been drugging its weary length along in the various law courts which the Mining Aot or 1874 has provided to enable parties to mining disputes to get rid of surplus capital whilst " fighting it out."…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The event of the week has been the opening of a telegraph station at Gosford. The sudden and unexpected visit of Mr. E.G. Cracknell, superintendent of telegraphs, to Gosford, on Monday last, put the whole township in motion, as if an…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →LONG-TUNNEL GOLD-MINING COMPANY, URALLA.—The annual meeting of shareholders was held on Friday, 26th July, at Mr. H. A. Thompson's office, 25, O'Connell-street, Sydney. The balance-sheets showed the receipts for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday, Sir George Allen chairman. The directors submitted the following report:- 1. The sales of coal have been larger than during the pre[?]ding…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →PRIVATE advices from Port Moresby, received at Cook[?] town, state that as yet no party has reached more than 30 miles inland, with horses, from Port Moresby. Parties on foot are following the river ten…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This company held its half-yearly meeting at the office to-day. The report, as read and adopted, congratulated the shareholders on the steady increasing business of the company. The directors advise an increase of the rolling stock…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PAXTON G.M. Co.—The mine manager reports, under date 27th July, as follows:—"Since my last report we have put in 12 feet of stull, and sunk 4 feet in the shaft, the vein showing about 9 inches thick. The result of crushing is as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the half-yearly meeting of this Company, held at Newcastle yesterday, the following report for the half-year ending 29th June last, was adopted:- The directors, in presenting their third report to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THERE is nothing remarkable to record from the mining districts. The principal yield of gold at Hill End has been obtained from the Star of Peace claim. In Herman's they secured 1500 oz. of fine specimens, the exact richness…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CARROLL AND BEARD'S G. M. Co.—Under date Hill End, July 30, the mining manager reports as follows:- "Back stoping No. 1 vein south from shaft at l40-feet level; stoping out north on No. 3 vein at 180 feet; stoping…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following information is abridged from the excellent reports issued by the Department of Mines of this colony:— THE AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →During the year 1877 there were seven fatal and 21 non-iatal accidents in the collieries of New South Wales. Of the fatal four out of the seven occurred from fallsof coal, the fifth from a fall of…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →During the year ended 31st December last, there were 92 men employed in the collieries around Lithgow Valley, including Eskbank, Vale of Clwydd, Bowenfells, and the Coverwell mines…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →There are three coal districts in New South Wales; the Northern, the Southern, and the Western. In the Northern district during the year 1877 there were 4136 men employed—667 above ground,…
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