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Mining & the mines, 1889

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Greymouth Gold-dredging

Evening News · Monday 20 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, May 19.-The Greymouth (N.Z.) Gold-dredging Company has been registered, with a capital of £20,000…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 May 1889 · page 9

The following transactions were on Saturday recorded by the Sydney Stock Exchange:—Greta coal, £2 paid, 30s.; Katoomba, 10s. 6d.; Broken Hill, Block 14, £5; Block 10, 56s., 57s., 57s. 6d.; Junction, 23s.,…

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Mining. Telegrams

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 May 1889 · page 7

ALBURT, Sunday.--The various prospectors, at the Black Range reefs are beginning to reap some return for the labors of the past few months, during which a great quantity of dead…

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The Robbery of Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.--With reference to the discovery in London of the loss of £5000 in gold from the Orient R.M.S. Iberia, on her voyage from Sydney to England, the…

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The Iberia Gold Loss

Evening News · Monday 20 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, May 18.-With reference to the loss of specie to the value of £5000 from the Orient Steam Navigation Co.'s R.M.S. Iberia, which recently arrived from Australia, the London…

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Australasian Mining Exchange

Evening News · Monday 20 May 1889 · page 6

The following sales took place on Saturday at the Exchange:-Silver: Central B. Hill, contributing, 30s; Broken Hill South, 36s, f.d. 36s 9d, 36s 9d; New North, 21s, 20s 3d, 20s 9d…

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Light Gold Coins. London, May 19

The Australian Star · Monday 20 May 1889 · page 5

Mr. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will explain in the House o Commons, on Tuesday, his scheme for dealing with the question of light gol…

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Greymouth Gold-dredging Company. London, May l8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 May 1889 · page 5

The Greymouth (N.Z.) Gold-dredging Company has been registered with a capital of —20,000…

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Visit to Hillgrove. (Continued.) Baker's Creek North (Limited) Mine

Evening News · Monday 20 May 1889 · page 3

This property consists of twenty-seven, acres, and is situated to the north and west of the Baker's Creek Co.'s lease, running along the side and end of the latter. The end takes the strike…

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Northumbrian Miners' Strike. Greeting German Fellow Workmen. London, May 18

The Australian Star · Monday 20 May 1889 · page 5

The miners of Northumberland have gone out on strike, and have cabled sym, pathetic greetings to their German fellow workmen on strike in Westphalia…

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Gold Gone Wrong. £5000 Worth Missing. London, May 18

The Australian Star · Monday 20 May 1889 · page 5

With reference to the £5000 in specie which was discovered missing on the arrival of the R.M.S. Iberia in London from Melbourne, it is supposed by the…

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The Strikes in Westphalia. Work Resumed at Some of the Collieries. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, May 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 May 1889 · page 5

The proprietors of one of the collieries in Westphalia have refused to entertain the terms submitted by the men on strike. The compromise which was expected to be…

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Colliery Strikes in Silesia. Menacing Attitude of the Men on Strike. the Military Called Out. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, May l8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 May 1889 · page 5

The colliers on strike in Silesia have wrecked the building belonging to one of the collieries. They adopted a menacing attitude, towards the troops who were…

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The Paris Exhibition. the Gold Arch in the Victorian Court. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, May 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 May 1889 · page 5

Sir Polydore de Keyser, late Lord Mayor of London and President of the British Commission at the Paris Exhibition, has complained to the French Executive…

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Miners' Troubles

Evening News · Tuesday 21 May 1889 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.-A special delegate meeting was held on Monday of the Wallsend miners to consider the grievance at that mine. Seventeen lodges were represented. Representatives from the Wallsend miners were present…

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The Great Colliery Strikes

Evening News · Tuesday 21 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, May 20.-Prince Bismarck, in referring to the colliery strikes in Westphalia, said that the Government would take measures to present a minority paralysing all industry…

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Mining

Evening News · Tuesday 21 May 1889 · page 5
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SILVERTON, Monday.-Mr. Archibald Lang, station owner, Mount Browne, has exhibited nice gold here, obtained from the claim of Messrs. Mercer, Adams, and Kilgour, Strangers' Hill, Mount Browne. The…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 May 1889 · page 9

The following transactions were recorded yesterday by the Sydney Stock Exchange:—Morning: Greta Coal, £2 paid, 35s.; Broken Hill No. 10 Block, 50s., 48s., 49s.; No. 14 Blook, £5: Junction, 23s 6d.; New…

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The Broken-hill South Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 May 1889 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--A special meeting of shareholders in the Broken-hill South Silvermining Company to-day carried a resolution in favor of transferring the head office…

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