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The deputation from the employees of the Coalcliff Colliery Company, who interviewed the Minister for Mines on Monday, again waited on him yesterday morning, with reference to the stoppage of work at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →From Gympie we learn by wire that 1113 tons stone from 3 aud 4 North Glanmire yielded 863oz. gold, from which a dividend of 6d. has been declared. One hundred and twenty-four…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Particulars of all the gold and mineral leases in force in the colony, together with their several labor condition, were published yesterday in a supplement to the Government Gazette…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Charters Towers correspondent of the Courier wires that reliable information has been received of a rush to the Burdekin, where fine alluvial gold has been found. The locality is about 70 miles from Ravenswood,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,--Having lately came from this goldfield I wish to certain my fellow-miners who intend to try their fortune on that field not to do so unless they have the means to support…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →We have been shown a fine specimen of retorted gold obtained from the Luck's All claim, about eight miles from Tarana. It was an abandoned claim, not worked for many…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir, -- In your telegraphic news yesterday I note that Mr. N. Melville is at Bulli. There he held a meeting. "Representations have been made to him that the widows and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- The development of the South Gippsland coalfield is being brought prominently before the public just now. To-day a deputation urged the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The usually quiet village of Clifton was entirely upset on Friday afternoon, consequent on Mr. Rowan, Inspector of Mines, instructing Mr. Williams, the manager of the colliery, to withdraw all the men working underground in…
Continued on Trove, page 980 →The Minister for Works yesterday received a deputation representative of the North Bulli and the North Illawarra Companies, who requested the department to erect a bridge on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LATEST SYDNEY QUOTATIONS:—Thuraday night, May 5—Silver: Broken Hill, uyers 98s; Broken Hill South, buyers 10s,6d, Bellera 1ls 6d, business done 1ls; do contributing, buyers 5s 9d, sellers 6s 3d,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →An automatic coal-scuttle, which opens when the shovel is drawn out, has recently been introduced in several patterns. The mechanism is of a simple…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →In regard to mining, matters seem to be rather quiet at present. The only mines I have visited are John Harkness and party's, and M'Lean's. The former is situated on a kind of bluff, the cap of which seems to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 980 →Sir,—In your telegraphic news yesterday I note that Mr. N. Melville was at Bulli. There he held a meeting. Representations have been made to him that the widows and relatives of the victims of the Colliery explosion are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GUNDAGAI, Friday.--At the Police Court to-day, before Messrs. J. B. Elworthy and M. Norton, Js.P., Rowland A. Cotton, the manager of a claim known as the Wagga Gold-mining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WOLLONGONG, Friday.--The miners of this district are very much dissatisfied with the appointment of Dr. Robertson and Mr. Neilson upon the Royal Commission appointed to inquire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the past week a little stir was made through Hudson and party in Happy Valley getting good prospects. A number of claims were pegged out; but as tho ground is patchy it is doubtful if it will turn out to be much. The…
Continued on Trove, page 951 →Dr. Roberson, president of the Bulli Colliery Commission, and Messrs, Neilson, Jones, O'Malley Clarke, Owen, members of the commission, arrived here to-day, and with Inspector Rowan, proceeded to the mine. The remainder…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. Wall, M.L.A. for Mudgee, recently directed the attention of Parliament to the manner in which land was taken up under volunteer orders on proclaimed goldfields, contending that people ought not to be allowed to take it up,…
Continued on Trove, page 980 →Sir,—With reference to the Bulli coal mine disaster, as appearing in the papers, it scans to me that men can be working in a mine in which a considerable amount of inflammable gas has accumulated without their being aware of…
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