Country Complaints. Our Mining Laws
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 17
Thus a Young correspondent: Miners are considerably handicapped all through auriferous centres by not having the privilege of entering on private large estates, which are well known to have goldfields of…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 13
The following list of sales of investment and mining stocks is published at the request, of the brokers who supply them:— Mr. Frank Blackley, 5 Spring-street (Friday), on…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 580
The crosscut at 400ft. level in the Central mine still continues in the footwall country, tho only change to record being a slight increase in the flow of water. It was reported this morning that Block 14 had stopped…
Continued on Trove, page 580 →The Lucknow Mines. Splendid Yields. Orange, March 4
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 608
A good deal of excitement has been caused here by the extraordinary rich stone which has come from the Crinoline vein in the Reform Pups, Lucknow. I went to the mines a few days ago And saw the result with…
Continued on Trove, page 608 →Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 24
COPPER AND TIN—SYDNEY PRICES.—The market value of tin is 15s 6d per unit, and copper is now at from £50 to £52 per ton. Business quiet. PEAK HILL.—Highly satisfactory results are being…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →An Electric Coal Digger. (See illustration on this page.)
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 24
Our figure illustrates a machine for digging under a seam of coal by means of electricity. The machine in run into its place on wheels; and the electric motor is started by an electric current brought to it…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Latest Mining News. (Continued From Page 25.)
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 45
THE MINERS' CONFERENCE.—The result of the conference held in Sydney between representatives of the Northern, Southern, and Western districts' miners was that a scheme for the…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Tin-mining in Gippsland. London, March 14
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 11
In consequence of the adverse comments made against the proposed registration of the Gippsland Proprietary Tin-mining Company, with a capital of £100,000, to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Strike of Miners in South Australia. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Adelaide
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 12
The miners, at the Alma mine, Victoria, in this colony, have struck work. The trouble is said to have originated in an attempt by the union miners to compel non-unionists employed in the mine to join…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A Miners' General Strike. the Yorkshire Conference. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, March 13
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 11
The Miners' Federation of Manchester has resolved upon a general strike, to begin on Saturday next, unless the masters concede the terms proposed in the Yorkshire…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Re-appointment of Mining Inspector. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 9
Sir,—I would ask the Minister for Mines, per favour of your valuable columns, why it is that men above the age of 45 years have been debarred from competing in the examination which will shortly take place for the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →News by Cable. The Great Labour MOvement. the Liverpool Strike. the Miners' Demands. Strike of Grain Porters
Evening News · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 4
LONDON, March 13.—The Liverpool dock laborers now refuse to submit their dispute to arbitration. At a meeting of the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Labor Struggle. Liverpool Dockers. Grain Porters' Strike. Sixpence An Hour--The Miners' Ultimatum--A Strike Imminent. LONDON, March 13
The Australian Star · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 4
The struggle between the dock laborers of Liverpool and the dockowners still continues. The latter are firm in their determination not to yield to the demands…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Law. Supreme Court. Friday, March 14. In Equity.--(Before the Chief Judge.) Red-hill Hole Mining Company
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 10
An order was made that calls due to this company should be paid into court. MEANEY V. ALLT'S BREWERY COMPANY. The plaintiff in this case is executor in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gold-mining in Queensland
Evening News · Monday 17 March 1890 · page 4
LONDON, March 15.—The Kilkivan Gold-mining Company has been registered. It has been formed to take over the property of the old Kilkivan Company near Gympie,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 March 1890 · page 7
The Kilkivan gold mines, near Gympie, Queensland, are to be registered as a public company, to take over the property of the old Kilkivan Company. The capital…
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The Australian Star · Monday 17 March 1890 · page 6
NEWCASTLE, Monday. --The Colliery Engine-drivers' Protective Association held a meeting on Saturday night. After some discussion it was decided to adjourn the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold-mining in New Zealand. London, March 15
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 March 1890 · page 7
The Glenrock Gold-mining Company is to be re-formed with a capital of £315,000, for the purpose of absorbing the Premier Gold-mining Company, New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Welsh Colliery Explosion
Evening News · Monday 17 March 1890 · page 4
LONDON, March. 15.—It has been discovered that the terrible explosion at the Morfa colliery, Cardiff, was caused by a miner having fired a shot in a dangerous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Strike of Coal-miners. (By Cable.) (From Our Correspondent.) London, March 14
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 March 1890 · page 7
The colliery proprietors having failed to reply to the terms proposed by the Miners' Federation of Manchester, viz., a 5 per cent. advance at once, with another…
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