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Mining & the mines, 1887

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The New Tanning Substance from Coal

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 1170

There seems to be no end to the variety of new products from coal. It is but a few weeks since the discovery of a new saccharine substance was announced, excelling all others in the intensity of its sweetness, and now we have…

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The Story of My Gold Cross

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 30

The day was closing in on the wild and sombre scenery of the Blue Mountains. The sun went down behind a mass of clouds gathered in the west, and as the light faded a chill wind came sighing…

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Mining Relics of 1500 Years Ago

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 24

That mining operations were carried out in Britain by the Romans during their occupation there is abundance of evidence; but nothing in this direction has equalled the discoveries recently made in…

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The Storyteller. To Call Her Mine. Chapter I.-david Makes a Statement

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 1166

"I will now," said the German, "read your statement over, and you can sign it if you like. Remember, however, what your signature may mean. As for what I shall do with it afterwards, depends on many things."…

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The Croydon Goldfield

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 1168

The Australasian United Steam Navigation Company's steamer Fitzroy, which arrived on Wednesday from Brisbane, brought, in addition to a large number of passengers and a general cargo, no less than 14,782oz…

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The Mount Browne Goldfield

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 1187

Mr. W. H. J. Slee, Government Inspector of Mines, who has just completed an inspection of the Mount Browne goldfield, has submitted his report to the Under Secretary for Mines. In it Mr. Slee (who wrote under date…

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New Zealand Goldfields Classes

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 24

The Government of New Zealand is fortunate in having secured the services of Professor James G. Black, M.A. and D.Sc., as head of the official staff of the goldfields classes and schools of mines in that…

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The Mount Morgan West Gold Mining Company

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 June 1887 · page 5

London, Sunday.--The directors of the Mount Morgan West Gold-mining Company, a Queensland venture which it has recently been attempted to float in London, are to be…

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Death Through a Fall of Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 June 1887 · page 5

WOLLONGONG, Saturday.--A man named Freestone, who had been working as a miner in the Mount Kembla Colliery, died at the hospital to-day from the effects of injuries received in…

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The Mount Morgan West Mine. London, June 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 June 1887 · page 7

The directors of the Mount Morgan West mine, Queensland, are to be prosecuted for publishing a false prospectus…

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The Kimberley Goldfields. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 June 1887 · page 5

PERTH, Sunday.--The Warden of Kimberley goldfields has telegraphed under date April 11 as follows:--"A. 30oz. nugget of pure gold was handed me to-day for custody. It was got on…

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Tee Eimberley Goldfields. (By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 June 1887 · page 7

The Government has received a telegram from the Warden of the Kimberley goldtields, dated April 11, stating that a 30oz. nugget had been handed to him, it having been found in some old workings. Panton, the…

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Cable News. Sensational Speech by Lord R. Churchill. Proposed Compromise with the Fairtraders. Economy the Remedy for England's Depression. Army and Nayy Extravagance Attacked. the Mount Morgan West Mine. the Directors to Be Prosecuted. Lord R. Churchill on the Army and Navy

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 June 1887 · page 5

London, Sunday.--Great, sensation has been created by a speech by Lord R. Churchill, in which he unsparingly attached the administration of the English army and…

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Mining. Mount Morgan West

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 June 1887 · page 7

Concerning the new-notorious Mount Morgan West, of which the directors, as the cable informed us yesterday are to be prosecuted for conspiracy a "Deceived Shareholes" wrote a…

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Sydney Stock Exchange and Mining Club

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 June 1887 · page 7

The Sydney Stock Exchange and Mining Club was opened yesterday. The club promises are situate at No. 72 Pitt-street, and were formerly occupied by Messrs. Elliott…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 June 1887 · page 7

Our Gympie correspondent wires :--" The Great Eastern shareholders have accented an offer from London for their property of [?]90,000 cash and 90,000 bares. The parchasing…

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Complaints From Mudgee Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 June 1887 · page 4

The Minister for Mines has written a minute threatening instant dismissed to officers of the department giving surreptitious information with regard to the…

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The Bulli Colliery Commission. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Reporter.) Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 June 1887 · page 11

The Bulli Colliery Commission sat at the Wollongong Town Hall at 10 o'clock this morning to hear further evidence. There were present Mr. O'Malley Clarke, actingpresident, in the chair, and Messrs. Neilson, Croudace,…

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Bulli Relief Fund, and N. S. W. Miners' Permanent Relief Fund. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 June 1887 · page 11

Sir,—May I be permitted to give a timely warning to the administration of this fund, in the face of similar experience offered us by the administering of the funds subscribed in England for the Hartley calamity. The Hartley fund,…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 June 1887 · page 5

The following quotations were received in the Mining market up to 1 o'clock yesterday:—Stockton Coal (new shares), 16s. 6d.; Wallsend coal, 391[?] Wickham and Bullock Island Coal, 12s. 6d.; Broken Hill South Silver…

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