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The third report of the Royal Commission of Collieries, on the collieries adjacent to the recently inundated Ferndale pit (Newcastle district), has been submitted. It is voluminous—containing 181 pages of closely printed type…
Continued on Trove, page 95 →The hon, sec, Stock Exchange reports the crushing of the Band and Albion Gold-mining Company, Ballarat, for the week to be 220 tons atone for a yield of 353oz. gold, dividend, 3s…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, Government Geologist, has submitted to the Under-Secretary for Mines a complete and voluminous report on the Mudgee and Gulgong gold district. The report deals in extenso with the various mines of the…
Continued on Trove, page 95 →NEWCASTLE, Friday.--A miners' delegates meeting was held last night, at which all lodges were represented. The following resolutions were passed :--…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More than £5,000,000 have been spent in the construction of mining ditches now in use in America; and, besides these, there are thousands of miles which have been abandoned, and of which no estimate…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Various rumours regarding the mining difficulty are afloat, but there is nothing definite. It is reported on good authority that the Masters' Associatioa Save cabled home for a large number of miners, the demands of the men on…
Continued on Trove, page 95 →It is understood that Mr. Fletcher, M.L.A., prior to recently resigning his position as Minister for Mines, had under his serious consideration a radical change in connection with the working of the New South Wales gold and…
Continued on Trove, page 95 →Eight men for the Bulli pit arrived from Sydney [?] morning, and were escorted to work by two policemen, headed by the local manager. A large crowd of strikers met the new arrivals in the main street, and one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Forty thousand sovereigns have been withdrawn for Australia, and it is probable that a further amount will be shipped…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Work having now been resumed on the diggings, it may be worth while reminding our readers of the suggestions made in the TOWN AND COUNTRY JOURNAL. as to the [?] and profit of obtaining…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Register's special correspondent at Teetulpa reports —"Mr. L. T. Dalton, a member of the New South Wales Parliament is here examining the reef. A fairly good reef has been opened up at the south end of…
Continued on Trove, page 95 →Referring to the Kimberley goldfield, the Northern Territory Times of December 4 writes : --"Mr. J. Clancy, who accompanied Mr. Pepperill to Victoria River, and assisted him to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Register's special correspondent at Teetulpa telegraphs that several coach loads of men arrived at Teetulpa this morning. The results of the washings generaly are very poor. The best of them were from Brady's [?]ully,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Brightly blazed the watch fires into the still night air, brightly from within the circle formed by them gleamed thousands of sparkling eyes, and fell on the ear a low, continuous sound, like the soft distant…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →The Mudgee Independent reports that a shaft is being put down at the Red-hill, Tambaroora, which is to be sunk to the depth of 450ft. At 100ft. a vein 18in. wide was struck which is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LITHGOW Saturday.--Thomas Doig, a miner employed by the Lithgow Colliery Company, while working on the top of an air shaft, on a swinging scaffold, somehow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Fletcher, the late Minister for Mines, addressed his constituents at Newcastle on Saturday, when he made a general defence of the Ministry, from which he has recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The estimated yield of gold from the Victorian mines for 1886, as compiled by the Age from information supplied by the banks, the director of the Mint…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A prominent local mining delegate proposes as a speedy mode of settling the present mining dispute, that all coal miners in the colony should strike on an early day. By this means all the ocean going and coasting steamers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The tenth half-yearly meeting of the New Reform Gold-mining Company was held on Thursday last at the Victoria Coffee Palace, Melbourne. Mr. B. Benjamin, chairman of the…
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