Fatal Mining Accident
MELBOURNE, Monday.--A man named Robert Woods, while engaged fixing a wedge in a shaft of the driving portion of the machinery in the New China United Mine, Sandhurst, became…
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Mining Intelligence
The following quotations were received in the mining market up to 1 o'clock yesterday:—Wickham and Bullock Island Coal. 12s. 6d.; Victory Gold, 15s. 3d. During the afternoon Wallsend Coal sold at £10…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A Monster Nugget. Three Hundred and Forty-seven Ounces of Gold. (By Telegraph.)
MUDGEE, Wednesday.--Three miners named Jonathan Thurpe, Isaac Holmes aud Frederick Leader have just led trod at the Commercial Bank a nugget of gold weighing 347oz, 1dwt…
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The following quotations were received in the mining market up to 1 o'clock yesterday:—Burnwood Coal, 16s. 6d.; Stockton Coal, 27s. 9d.; Wickham und Bullock Island Coal, 12s. 6d.; Central Broken Hill Silver (paid up), 10s. 3d.,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Mining Department. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir.--There is no doubt it mining would only take a spurt, the unemployed difficulty would soon become a thing of the past. It is for this reason the Government should do all in their…
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In our advertising columns will be found the prospectus of the Young Wallsend Coal Company. Limited, which has been formed to work a fine property of about 750a. coal land near…
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London, Friday.--At the annual meeting of the Metropolitan Coal Company held yesterday, it was stated that a call would probably be made in August…
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Mr. J. C. Freeman, writing to the Glen Innes Examiner, gives some interesting particulars relative to the work being, carried on by the Glen Elgin Sluicing Company on tho North Rocky River. He says :—"The undertaking in…
Continued on Trove, page 1289 →Mount Morgan Gold-mining Company. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Rockhampton
The balance-sheet of the Mount Morgan Gold-mining Company for the half-year ended 31st May has been published, and will be read at the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on the 28th June. It shows…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →What's Mine's Mine. By George Macdonald. Second edition. London: Keegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 1886
The plot or scheme of this novel is based upon the law of heredity, and the scene is laid in Scotland. To even Doctor Macdonald's most ardent admirers this volume will be a welcome change, for, although written for a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MINING. Tent Hill. JUNE 11
"The gods help those who help themselves" is an old axiom, and one that I hope may be realised in this neighbourhood by the actions of our Progress Association, who have contributed a sum of money towards paying the…
Continued on Trove, page 1258 →The Storyteller. To Call Her Mine. Chapter Iv.—challacombe-by-the-moor
The village of Challacombe is know by sight to those excursionists from Teignmouth, Dawlish, or Torquay, who take tho train to Bovey Tracey, and then go up by the char-a-banes-locally called "cherrybanks"—to Hey Tor…
Continued on Trove, page 1294 →Shamrock Gold-mining Company. London, June 18
The shares in the Shamrock Gold-mining Company, Queensland, have been allotted…
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We learn from our Brisbane correspondent "That £5 a share was refused for Mount Morgan Shares on Saturday."…
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One Narandera correspondence wires:--"Some splendid specimens of quartz and brownish state, studded with gold, were shown here on Saturday. They were obtained by two brothers…
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Our Cooktown correspondent wires:--"Three hundred tons of tin are awaiting carriage at Mount Romeo in fields. The whole country there is improving, as fresh discoveries are…
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The following quotations were received in the maning market yesterday:—Great Cobar Copper, 4s. 9d., 5s.; Broken Hill South Silver (paid up), 7s. 6d.; Eveleen Silver, 5s. 3d. The afternoon sales were:—Broken Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fatal Accident in Mount Pleasant Colliery. (By Telegraph.)
WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.--A sad accident resulting in the death of a young man named W. Francis Ring, occurred at the Mount Pleasant colliery this morning. It appears…
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Messrs. Watt and Dodds report that the output of the Grout Cobar copper mine for the four weeks ending June 11 was 148 tons of fine copper…
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London, Thursday.--A company to work the opal mines in Queensland is being floated. There are to be 100,000 £1 shares…
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