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Mining & the mines, 1888

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Mining Intelligence. Notes

The Australian Star · Monday 9 April 1888 · page 5

The manager of the Rookwood-road Metal Quarry Company, Limited, reports that highly satisfactory work has been done since his last, large quantities of…

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Mining at Broken Hill. London, April 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1888 · page 7

The Atlas Silver and Lead Mining Company, Broken Hill, New South Wales, with a capital of £300,000, has been registered…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 April 1888 · page 7

A number of reports on the Webb's Consols mine have been handed to us for perusal. The experts who have reported on the property are : --Messrs. C. E. Rawlics, T. Chandler, G. S…

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The Coal Trade

The Australian Star · Tuesday 10 April 1888 · page 8

At present the southern collieries are working lard to fulfil orders. The Weaters collarless are doing but a modern to trude. Of the Newcastle trade Messrs. Dalgety and…

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Mining Intelligence. Notes

The Australian Star · Tuesday 10 April 1888 · page 5

The Melbourne share market opened again yesterday. Prices varied a good deal, as is always the case after a long holiday, towards the end of the week…

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Strike at Ferndale Colliery

The Australian Star · Wednesday 11 April 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--The Ferndale miners are now on strike, the trouble being similar to that at South Waratah. An examination of the scam and the…

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The s. Waratah Colliery Strike

The Australian Star · Wednesday 11 April 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--A meeting of the South Waratah minora was held yesterday. Messrs, Curley and Hunter paid the men three weeks strike pay. The…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 April 1888 · page 7

The Burrendong Gold Prospecting Company issues its prospectus this morning. The property consists of seven acres in the Ironbarks district, and has been reported on in…

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Allens on the Croydon Gold-field

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 April 1888 · page 5

CROYDON (Q.), Tuesday.—The Miners' Association has telegraphed to Sir Sammel Griffith, requesting him to eject all Asiatic aud African aliena from the field except those loading…

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Explosion in a Mine

The Australian Star · Wednesday 11 April 1888 · page 5

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Three men were seriously injured and three others much shaken by an explosion in No. 2 Queen Mine, Charters Towers, yesterday. The…

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The Grand United Gold-mining Company. Tarcutta. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 April 1888 · page 7

Sir,—In your issue of the 6th inst., re the decision of Judge Dowling in the cases of Hole and Luscombe and Precious, re application money due on the shares signed for in terms…

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A Broken-hill Mining Company

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 April 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The Atlas Silver and Lead Mining Company, Broken-hill, New South Wales, has been registered with a capital of £300,000…

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The Eurowie Tinfield. (By Our Special Reporter.) the Victory Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 April 1888 · page 7

BROKEN-HILL, April 4.—The Victory Mine has attracted a very large amount of public attention, more particularly since a few weeks back, when the market value of the shares was…

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Cable News. the Gold Discoveries in North Wales

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 April 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Monday Night.—The gold discovered by Mr. P. Morgan in North Wales has been claimed by the Crown, and the authorities are taking the necessary steps to…

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The Hillgrove Mines Murder. Accused Sentenced to Death. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 April 1888 · page 5

ARMIDALE, Tuesday.—At the Circuit Court to-day John Grace was found guilty of the murder of John Stapleton at the Hillgrove Mines, in February. The evidence was entirely…

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The Late Murder at Hill Grove Mines. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Armidale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 April 1888 · page 10

The Assizes began yesterday morning before Mr. Justice Foster. Mr. Harris was Crown Prosecutor. The Court has been occupied with the trial of John Grace for the murder of John Stapleton at Hill Grove mines. The jury…

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Fatal Colliery Accident. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 April 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—A sinker named John Mansfield was killed in the shaft on the Northumberland Coal Company's estate, at Fassifern last evening. A large stone…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 April 1888 · page 11

Another fortnight's operations in connection with the New South Wales mining fields have resulted in a further preponderance of silver-getting. Prices have fluctuated more or less in connection with scrip, but…

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The Ruby Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 April 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Night.—Accompany is being floated in London, with a capital of £400,000, to work Mr. Pearson's ruby mines at Macdonnell Range, Central Australia…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade

The Australian Star · Thursday 12 April 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--The coal trade is very brisk, San Francisco, particularly, taking large quantities. During the last fortnight alone the Wallsend…

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