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Mining & the mines, 1888

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A New Zealand Gold Mining Company

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--The South Tokatca Gold-mining Company; New Zealand, has been registered, with a capital of £75,000…

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Gold-mining in New Zealand. London, March 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 7

A company has been registered, with a capital of £75,000, to work the South Tokatea gold mine at Auckland, New Zealand…

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The Ferndale Colliery Dispute

The Australian Star · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--The Ferndale Coal Co. have refused an interview with the district officers of the Miners' Association, on the ground that they would deal…

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Amongst the Mines

The Australian Star · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 3

"The reporter stands," writes the special mining reporter of the BARRIER MINER," as a mediator between the mine-owners and the general public, and it is his bounden duty…

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The Moonta Miners' Strike

The Australian Star · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 5

ADELAIDE, This Day.--The strike at the Moonta Mines has concluded. The men accepted the offer of the company to reduce the percentage money on contracts…

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Mining Notes

The Australian Star · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 3

The Great Western Coal-mining Company send us a directors' report, which is undated, but which apparently applies to the half-year just closed. From it we…

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Severe Accident In a Mine

The Australian Star · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--Thos. Hetherington, a son of the mayor of Adamstown met with a severe accident in the old Glebe pit yesterday. He was employed [?]…

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The Bishop's Creek Gold Company

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--The shares have been allotted in the Bishop's Creek Gold-mining Company, Queensland, the capital of which' is £100,000…

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The Silver-mining Boom

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 4

The silver-mining boom which is agitating the metropolitan and (in a milder degree) the country populations f New South Wales Victoria and…

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Latest Mining. Brisbane Share Market

The Australian Star · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 8

BRISBANE, 3 p.m.--Stock Exchange quotations:--Broken Hill Block (promoters), 20s buyers, 40s sellers: Broken Hill Block (contributing), 29s buyers, 32s…

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The Moonta Miners' Strike. Resumption of Work. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Sunday.--The strike at the Moonta Mines concluded on Saturday, the men accepting the revised proposal of settlement by the directors. The latter offer to reduce the…

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Comstock Silver Mines. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 9

Sir,—The large amount of public attention new being given to silver-mining in this colony, and the extraordinary statements and contrasts which are daily made regarding the value of the deposits, as compared with the…

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Gold-sluicing Company in Queensland. London, March 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 7

The share in the Bishop's Creek Goldslucing Company at Cloncurry, Queensland, have been alloted…

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Mining Intelligence. Review of Last Week's Markets. Star Office, Monday morning

The Australian Star · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 3

THE week which has closed witnessed a still further depreciation in some scrip than that which preceded it. This has been particularly the case with a portion…

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Late Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 March 1888 · page 8

There was a decided improvement in silver company's shares on Saturday, especially in Centrals and Souths botn closing firm at good advances. Mount Costing silver were in favour, and sold higher. Smaller priced stocks…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 March 1888 · page 7

We have received a copy of Smith's pocket map of Broken-bill leases. It is lithographed by Messrs. John Sands and Co., is strongly mounted upon calico, and being handy in size…

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Mining Intelligence. Mining Notes

The Australian Star · Tuesday 6 March 1888 · page 3

We have received the first two issues of the BARRIER MINER, and are glad to welcome what promises to be a reliable mining journal. In its material and…

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San Francisco Coal Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 March 1888 · page 5

By the mail stramer yesterdaty we received the monthly review of the coal trade by Messrs. J. W. Harrises, who[?] tates: "Since the salling of the last [?]amer there have been the following arrivals from Sydney and Newcastle, viz.: Samoa, 1803 tons;…

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The Strike at the Moonta Mines

The Australian Star · Tuesday 6 March 1888 · page 8

ADELAIDE, This Day.--The strike at the Moonta Mines is now over. The men resumed work this morning…

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The Rates of Hewing Coal. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 March 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--At a meeting of the South Waratah miners on Saturday night to consider the advance price in the rates of hewing coal a letter was read from the manager of…

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