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The steady roar of the furnaces is to be heard day and night, Sundays and week days. When darkness sets in their red eyes gleam brightly out and illumine the greater part of the hillside, showing the moving figures of the…
Continued on Trove, page 465 →Our Parkes correspondent, writing on August 22, says :—The prospectors on the Condobolin-road, towards Woodley's, are raising another machine of dirt, and their proceedings are anxiously watched, as a payable run is not improbable…
Continued on Trove, page 447 →The hon. sec. Stock Exchange reports the crushing of the Band and Albion Gold-mining Company, Ballarat, for the week to have been 317 tons stone for a yield of 196oz. gold…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Broken-hill Proprietary Company, the parent company on the field, is one of 16,000 shares, now being sold at about £150 per share, giving a capital of £2,400,000. It consists of mineral…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →NEWCASTLE, Friday.--Affairs with regard to the strike at the Burwood Colliery remain in statu quo. One of the so-called "blacklegs" has written to an evening paper denying that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Col. Brown was evidently bent on showing his regard for me. To-day he would ask the to stroll down to the post-office with him at the same time presenting me with one of his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Burwood colliery was laid idle this morning, an event which has caused great excitement. The strike originated in the manager declining to discharge five men who had previously contracted to hew coal according to the…
Continued on Trove, page 467 →In travelling through the East, and especially when in Borneo, China, and Japan, my attention was particularly directed to the coal deposits of these countries, which I found to be far more numerous and important…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT has been discovered that, owing to a clerical error in the wording of the prospecting vote granted by Parliament, with a view to the development of mining, the sum set aside for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →As stated in a previous telegram the prospects of a general strike among the colliers are not great, and the common impression is that although feeling runs very high no local disruption will be allowed to eventuate in an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Our Bombala correspondent writes on August 24:—Mining matters are quiet at present, though more rights, licenses, and leases have been taken out than last year, or any preceding year for a very long time. All the claims at…
Continued on Trove, page 448 →One hundred acres of land iu the county of Dampier, parish of Bodalla, being measured portion 168, has been proclaimed a goldfield within the meaning of the Act, as an extension to the Dromedary goldfield north extension…
Continued on Trove, page 448 →The plaintiffs (who are the respondents) are the Stockton Coal Company, Limited, and the defendants (the appellants) are James Fletcher, William Alston, Hutchinson, Atkinson, Alfred Patrick Tighe, William A. Steel, and Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Yesterday an important conference of representatives from the various municipal councils in this district and the Miners' Association was held in the School…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ORANGE.—The manager of the Gold Hill Goldmining Co. at Burnt Yards, near Orange, reports under date August 25, as follows:—"Since last report cut another vein in the drive 27ft from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The Burwood miner meet to-morrow, when it is hoped that some steps will be taken towards the settlement of the strike. The Barwood Coal Company, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.--The Burwood Colliery dispute is still unsettled. The men held a meeting this morning, at which the following letters were discussed:--…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE.—A conference on the matter of the improper under-mining of streets and private property for coal was held here on Saturday afternoon under the auspices of the Wickam…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Associated Colliery proprietors have held a meeting in reference to the closing of the Burwood Colliery, aud decided to leave the whole matter in the hands of the Burwood Colliery management. It is not likely that the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Our Albury correspondent wires that 16 tons of quartz from Crisp and party's claim at Black Range yielded 24oz. of gold. We understand that the Premier and…
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