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Mining & the mines, 1888

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill, This Day

The Australian Star · Monday 2 July 1888 · page 4

Good business was done in shares this morning, and prices are very firm in the seven leading Broken Hill mines. The men employed in Block 14 and…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill. This Day

The Australian Star · Monday 2 July 1888 · page 6

The market was slightly weaker yesterday, and not much, business was effected. In the morning Rising Sun changed hands at 10s, and buyers offered slightly…

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Bendigo Gold Returns. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 July 1888 · page 7

The Bendigo gold returns for the first half of this year [?]ow that the total yield of gold was 81,849oz. The calls amounted to £84,858, and the dividonds paid were £87,179, The figures of the corresponding…

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Coal Mining

The Australian Star · Tuesday 3 July 1888 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, This Day.—A new coal company is in the market. It is formed for the purpose of purchasing a portion of the Redhead Estate and will be known as…

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The Bulli Colliery Actions

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 July 1888 · page 4

The trial of the first of some 17 action which have been instituted against the Bulli Coal-mining Company by the widows of men who lost their lives in the explosion last year…

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Accident at Lambton Colliery

The Australian Star · Tuesday 3 July 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.-- While at work at Lambton colliery yesterday, John Jokes, a young men, was knocked down by a fall of coal which crushed him…

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Coal Exports

The Australian Star · Tuesday 3 July 1888 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, This Day.—Up to Saturday 306,619 tons of coal were exported this year from Newcastle, as against 811,145 tons exported during the corresponding…

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Mining

Evening News · Tuesday 3 July 1888 · page 8
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BLAYNEY, Monday.-At a meeting of the shareholders of the Blayney Copper-mining Co. on Saturday Messrs. G. Hawke, C. Chambers, J. Russart, J. Smith, and D. H. M'Donald were elected…

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Splendid Discovery of Gold

Evening News · Tuesday 3 July 1888 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Monday.-The Mines Department has received information of a rush of about fifty miners to a gully in the vicinity of St. Arnsud, where splendid coarse gold has been discovered…

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Broken Hill Mining

The Australian Star · Tuesday 3 July 1888 · page 5

BROKEN HILL, This Day.—There is no manager looking after Rising Sun North. What are the directors about It was floated three months ago in Melbourne,…

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Bulli Colliery Disaster Fund Bill. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 July 1888 · page 6

Sir,--With your kind permission I would like to draw attention to a few of the statements made by Mr. Gould in introducing this proposed bill in the Legislative Assembly. They…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—monday July 2. Banco Court.—(Before his Honor the Chief Justice and a jury of four.) BIRCH V. Bulli Coal-mining Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 July 1888 · page 4

Mr. Want, Q.C., and Mr. Heydon, instructed by Messrs. Slattery and Heydon, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Salomons, Q.C., Mr. C. B. Stephen, and Mr. Wise, instructed by Messrs. Allen and Allen, for the defendants…

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Bulli Mining Disaster. the First of the Widows' Cases. £2000 Damages Claimed

Evening News · Tuesday 3 July 1888 · page 6

The first of the lengthy list of actions set down for hearing in connection with the above terrible disaster was called on on Monday, before the Chief Justice and a jury of four. It…

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Bulli Mining Disaster. the First of the Widows' Cases. £2000 Damages Claimed

Evening News · Tuesday 3 July 1888 · page 5

The action in which Jane Birch, widow and administratrix of the late William Birch (one of the miners who lost his life by the terrible explosion of March, 1887), sought to recover…

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Fatal Mining Accident at Gympie. [By Telegram.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 July 1888 · page 7

A fatal accident occurred in No. 3 North Phœnix mine, Gympie, this morning. Richard James, a young man employed as a braceman, got on a loaded truck, to ride from the surface to the brace, and had ascended…

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The West Wallsend Colliery. Opening of a New Mine. an Interesting Ceremony

Evening News · Wednesday 4 July 1888 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, July 3.-The new West Wallsend Co.'s mine was formally opened to-day, in the presence of a large gathering of the shareholders, leading men in the local coal trade, and visitors…

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Opening of a New Colliery. the West Wallsend Coal Company's Property. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 July 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The formal opening of the West Wallsend Coal Company's colliery, situate in the parish of Teralba, 15½ miles south of the township of Minmi, took place to-day…

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Opening of a New Colliery

The Australian Star · Wednesday 4 July 1888 · page 5

WEST WALLSEND, This Day.—The formal opening of the West Wallsend Coal Mining Company's mine took place at the mine yesterday in the presence of…

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