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At the Lambton miners' meeting last night, Mr. Cremore, the Secretary of the Coal Trimmers Union, was received as a deputation to invoke the sympathy and assistance of the Lambton Lodge in connection with the dispute with Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 618 →Following so closely after the colliery calamity at Lithgow, the flooding of Ferndale mine will no doubt tend to awaken some doubts as to the safety of our coal mines generally. Hitherto…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Fletcher, Minister of Mines, in company with Mr. J. Mackenzie, inspector of coalfields, and Mr. J. Dixon, inspector of colleries, visited the Ferndale Collery. interviewed Mr. Fletcher in private after…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- A miner named James Archer had a narrow escape from a terrible death in the Newcastle Coal-mining Company's Colliery this afternoon. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NYMAGEE.—Copper-mining operations continue as usual, but there is a little excitement owing to the discovery of silver ere in the mine adjoining the Hartwood property and the secretary to the Nymagee…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This morning the miners of the Ferndale pit were suddenly alarmed by a roaring of invading waters at the north-east of the workings. The first to give the alarm were those engaged at the point of bursting…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Between the Round and Broken Hills the country is a good deal more level. Every inch of ground has been pegged out, and a considerable amount of prospecting done. On this the north side of the Broken Hill the first block…
Continued on Trove, page 615 →The Northern World of the 6th instant says:—"The differences between capital and labour which have been so marked a feature in the southern colonies recently have now extended to Northern Queensland, the latest being a…
Continued on Trove, page 615 →In a recent issue of the Gympie Miner a correspondent signing himself "Reefer" calls attention to the fearfully depressed state of the mining industry. He says:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PARKES, Wednesday.—Phillips and party cleaned up, after crushing 33 tons from Bushman's Hill, yielding 80oz,, and being about 21/2oz. to the ton. ON Saturday a digger fossicking about the mullock heaps…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →News was received in town this morning that the Ferndale Colliery had been flooded, and that two or three persons had been drowned. Later information, however, states that one of the men, named Hargraves…
Continued on Trove, page 609 →On the 15th November, last year, it will be remembered (says Saturday's Bendigo Advertiser) the battery-house of the Loyal English Company, which was then working an alluvial claim on the Huntly Deep Lead, at Bagshot, was…
Continued on Trove, page 614 →THE Under-Secretary for Mines has received the following communication from the warden at Milpari[?], dated March 3:-" I have the honour to inform you that a party of prospectors have been for some time trying to find silver…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →A terrible mining fatality occured at the Ferndale Colliery, Newcastle, through its being flooded. One man named Jenkins has been drowned, and another, Hargraves, had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Monday.—The Mines Deportment have received the following telegram from the police-sergeant at Windorah, respecting the discovery of a gold-field near there:- "Returned from reported gold-field. Examined almost all…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Department of Mines has received the following communication from Mr. J. P. Curran, Mining Registrar at Boorook:—"March 9, 1886. I have the honour to inform you that a very rich deposit of gold has been discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 615 →"Further investigations with regard to the Ferndale disaster prove it to be one of the most serious that have yet occurred in the collieries of this colony. It appears that Throsby's Creek passes over a portion of the mine, which…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Our Brisbane correspondent telegraphs on Monday:—With reference to the reported discovery of gold near Windorah, Mr. R. A. Rankin, police magistrate at Blackall, telegraphs as follows to the Under-Secretary for…
Continued on Trove, page 615 →YALWAL.—Telegrams report that the manager of the Homeward Bound Claim has deposited in the bank in Nowra 267oz of gold crushed from 150 tons of stone…
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