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Information was received in town about half-past 8 o'clock last evening to the effect that a disastrous and fatal explosion had taken place at the Bulli Mine at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The Croydon field gives promising prospects, and there is ample work for the assistant warden. 100 of the claims requiring laying off. Considerable excitement…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A few hurried words, a few hours' midnight journeying, and I am face to face with the most appalling work of death yet written on the pages of Australian history. The people in Sydney may be asking how…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The reports of the mining registrars of Victoria for the quarter ending December 31 last are published, and we have to acknowledge the receipt of a copy from the Mining Department…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →According to the telegrams to hand last night from Bulli, it would appear that 85 lives were lost by the explosion in the Bulli Mine on Wednesday. Thirty-two bodies have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As stated in a previous issue, the existence of light carburetted hydrogen (also known as "fire-damp" and "marsh gas") has long been within the knowledge of the mine-owners, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The statement we published yesterday on the authority of Mr. Hamilton, the general manager of the Bulli Company, as to the special precautions for the safety of the mine is confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Questioned last night in the Legislative Assembly Mr. Abigail stated to one of our reporters that he had not had sufficient information to say whether the accident could…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In the shop-windows of Messrs. Jones and Sons' establishment, 330, George-street, may be seen some samples of gold extracted from writes and auriferous iron ores, which hare attracted considerable attention within…
Continued on Trove, page 666 →A violent explosion of fire-damp occurred in the Bulli Colliery's pit about 2.30 this afternoon. The first intimation of the disaster was given, by a fearful outburst of gas and air from the mouth of the tunnel,…
Continued on Trove, page 666 →A fearful catastrophe has occurred at Bulli, which is about eight miles north of this place. At half-past 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a terfific explosion took place in the tunnel of the Bulli…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The colliery explosion at Bulli on Wednesday afternoon last was the most serious calamity that has occurred in this colony; not only have a large number of lives been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT is no exaggeration to say the whole colony was most painfully shocked when the tragic intelligence was spread far and wide on Thursday that a frightful catastrophe had occurred at the Bulli…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The scenes at the colliery to-day in a minor degree resembled those of yesterday. There were fewer women to weep and heart-throbbings were subdued, but there was the same baud…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At about half-past two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon a violent explosion of firedamp, which was attended by dire consequences occurred at the Bulli colliery. The first…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There is at present on view at the establishment of Messrs. T. T. Jones and Sons, 330, George-street, some samples of gold extracted from pyrites and auriferous iron ores, treated at the Parnell Pyrites Patent Company's Works, Pyrmont, by…
Continued on Trove, page 667 →The following is an account of an interview to-day with Mr. Nicholson, the miners' secretary :--"I have but little doubt that the disaster was caused by the men using naked lights…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The attention of the whole colony is once more turned to Bulli. A few months ago that populous mining village was full of distress through a prolonged strike and lockout. Now, only a few weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 636 →Work on the field proceeds steadily, and, though nothing important has turned up in the shape of new discoveries, the different reefs are doing well. The battery is now constantly going, and a lot of trial stuff is put through. The…
Continued on Trove, page 667 →The ghastly work of searching out and removing the bodies from the awful pit was continued all day. Crowds were gathered round the mouth of the tunnel, whence every now and then four miners would be seen emerging…
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