These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
1,915 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 96
The early history of the raine has always been read with interest, but more so now beoause of the magnitude of the operations which are conducted on the Hill. We will take a few facts from a statement…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Away in the depths of the Australian bush the setting sun is shedding his last beams upon a tranquil valley Around tower the cliffs and hills; and on every side stretch black, deep…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →TELEGRAPHIC intelligence has been received from Adelaide to the effect that the reported gem discoveries have created much sensation. On Monday a newspaper representative interviewed…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Mr. E. Langton, of Victoria, will sail in the R.M.S. Rome on his return to Victoria. He has contracted for the sale of the North Long Tunnel Mining Company's property at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"Quick, David, quick?" cried the old man, eagerly. "Let us get to work. Oh! you waste half the morning; let us get on. At this rate," he sighed, " we shall take months before I have got back the property."…
Continued on Trove, page 235 →LATEST SYDNEY QUOTATIONS.—Thursday night. July 28—Coal; Burwood, buyers 17s 9d, sellers 18s 3d; Stockton, buyers 34s 6d, sellers 35s. Silver; Broken Hill, buyers £138, selles £140; Broken…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →In connection with mining on a new field there is, as a rule, much, litigation. Many syndicates, companies, and even private individuals hold ground as mineral conditional purchases, without complying…
Continued on Trove, page 258 →We are indebted to Mr. Wilkinson, the Government Geologist, for the subjoined rule, by the use of which the weight of gold in any ordinary specimen can be determined quite closely enough for all practical…
Continued on Trove, page 258 →The stamper battery which we illustrate is the manufacture of Messrs. Robert Dalglish and Co., of St. Helens, Lancashire (England). It is designed for easy transit over mountainous roads, and is…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The erection of new winding and concentrating plant at the Pinnacles Tribute mine is being rapidly proceeded with. The claim is situated 15 miles south-west from here, and nine miles from Broken-hill. Forty men are employed in…
Continued on Trove, page 234 →CROYDON, June 30.—The latest crushings on the field here are as follow:—Sovereign. No. 1, 74 tons for 28oz of geld: Problem, 8 tons for 2S6oz; Just-in-Time, prospecting, 100 tens for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arthur William Sherard, the honorary secretory of the Albert Goldfields Jockey Club, was born in Ballarat, Victoria, in 1860, and is consequently 20 years of use. Educated in the Ballarat College, he entered the huey world as a…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →The fourth half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the West Wallsend Coal Company, Limited, was held on Friday last, Mr. David Wilson presiding. There was a large…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, July 30.—The directors of the West Mount Morgan Mine now propose to replace the mine on the London market with a reduction on the original proposed capital. The vendors are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →KATOOMBA Sunday.—Affairs in connection with the strike at the colliery here assumed so serious an aspect yesterday that the manager, fearing an outbreak among the disaffected miners…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is proposed to reconstruct the Mount Morgan West Mining Company. The capital is to be reduced to £150,000, the vendors cancelling 50,000 shares, and repaying £7000…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Penrith police were telegraphed for last night by Mr. North, managing director of the Katoomba Colliery, in consequence of the threatening attitude of the men on strike at the colliery. It appears that the men, without…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The preliminary prospecting at the Tower Hill Silver Mine has, according to the manager's report, proved the existence of chlorides and galena. Considerable bodies of ore have been exposed, consisting of a percentage of copper…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CROYDON, Saturday.—A robbery occurred afc a stockbroker's establishment in Sircom-street, last night. Four pounds in cash, and a cash-box containing miners' rights and other mining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →