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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1889

4,535 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 227

Kimberley Goldfields

Evening News · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 6

PORT DARWIN, Friday.-The s.s. Pathan, from Singapore, has brought later Kimberley news. The prospects of the diggings are improving, owing to the introduction of machinery and…

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"Wilt Thou Be Mine." Thought-Reader's Recipe for Making a Proposal. Just How a Man Should Ask the Woman He Loves to Marry Him—Stick to the Point, State Your Salary and Be Courageous

Nepean Times · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 7

A girl may, in the sweetness of her heart, overlook the clumsiness of a wooer, and pledge herself to a man whose offer has not been made in the proper form; life is full of…

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Coal Miners' Delegate Board

The Australian Star · Monday 7 January 1889 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, This Day.-- At the delegate board meeting yesterday, a motion that the Glebe rioters should get £2 a week for the time they were in gaol was carried. A…

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Accidents at Lambton Colliery

The Australian Star · Monday 7 January 1889 · page 5

LAMBTON, This Day. -- Two young men were slightly injured on Saturday at the Lambton Colliery. One, named Spruce, a wheeler, got his ankle hurt by his horse…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1889 · page 7

The hon. secretary Sydney Stock Exchange reports the crushing of the Band and Albion Gold-mining Company, Ballarat, to be 220 tons stone for a yield of 96oz. gold; and also the…

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Bellambl Coal Company

The Australian Star · Monday 7 January 1889 · page 6

WOLLONGONG, This Day. -- About 40 men are now engaged in getting the Belambi Coal Co.'s property into working order. It is expected within four or five…

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Colliery Explosion. Thirty Dead Bodies Recovered

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1889 · page 5

London, Saturday Night. -- A colliery explosion, attended with loss of life, has occurred at Oviedo, in Spain. Thirty bodies have been recovered…

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Matters at Wallsend Mine

The Australian Star · Monday 7 January 1889 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.-- The Wallsend miners have decided to request the manager to work the seam as before the strike, subject to prices to be fixed by the…

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Colliery Explosion. Thirty Bodies Recovered. London, January 5

The Australian Star · Monday 7 January 1889 · page 5

A terrible colliery explosion has occurred at Oviedo, in Spain. Thirty bodies have been recovered from the mine…

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The Northern Miners. the Delegate Board

Evening News · Monday 7 January 1889 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.-The Delegate Board continued sitting on Friday, and the following motions were carried: "That Mr. Hugh Walker, manager of the Linwood Colliery, be sued for the…

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To-day's Mining Quotations

The Australian Star · Monday 7 January 1889 · page 5

The following sales wore effected at the Australasian Mining Exchange this morning:-- SILVER…

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Mining Intelligence. Adelaide, This Day

The Australian Star · Monday 7 January 1889 · page 8

Mr. Clark, a storekeeper of Hergott Springs, has recently made some successful trials of a process for fluxing copper with iron…

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An Important Mining Case. To the Editor

Evening News · Monday 7 January 1889 · page 4

Sir,-Referring to your leading article under the head of "An Important Mining Case," which appeared in your issue of Saturday last, we, the lessees of the Mountain Maid Mine, having…

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A Colliery Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1889 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Monday.-A wheeler named Spruce was, on Saturday, severely injured at the Lambton Colliery. He was coming on to the flat with some full skips, when one ran off the rails…

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The Northern Miners

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1889 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Monday.-At the monthly meeting of the Co-operative miners on Saturday night, the chairman explained that a deputation had interviewed the manager relative to a local…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1889 · page 7

Mr. Ernest L. Davis reports that all the shares in the Cullen Bullen Coal and Coke Company, Limited, have been applied for, and the share list is consequently closed…

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The Newcastle Collieries. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--In connection with the request of the Wallsend miners to be allowed to work the coal as before the strike, a deputation, which interviewed Mr. Neilson, the…

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Miners' Grievance

The Australian Star · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.-- It has been decided to complain to the Minister of Mines about the check inspector trouble at Sea Pit…

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The Northern Miners

Evening News · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.-At a meeting of the Borehole miners on Tuesday evening a letter was read from the manager, Mr. Turnbull, stating that the men in the new pit should continue…

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COUNTRY. Wallsend Miners

The Australian Star · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.-- Pending the decision of Mr. E. W. Binney, secret try of the associated coal masters, on the matter, the Wallsend miners will be…

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