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Mining & the mines, 1891

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Mining at Alicktown. Warden Slee's Report

The Australian Star · Friday 24 April 1891 · page 3

THE Under-Secretary for Mines received the following report from Mr. W. H. J. Slee, warden at Alicktown:--I do myself the honor to inform you that I arrived here…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—thursday, April 23. In Equity.—(Before his Honor Mr. Justice OWEN, Chief Judge in Equity.) the Scottish Australian Mining Company V. the Re[?]head Coal-mining Company (Part [?]Eard)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 April 1891 · page 3

Mr. Gregory Walker and Mr. Langer Owen, instructed by Messrs. Norton, Smith, Westgarth, and Co., appeared for the plaintiff company, and Mr. A. H. Simpson and Mr. Ralston, instructed by Messrs. Sly…

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Law. Supreme Court. Thursday, April 23. IN EQUITY.--(Before the Chief Judge.) the Scottish Australian Coal-mining Company, Limited, V. Redhead Coalminig Company, Limited (Part Heard)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 April 1891 · page 3

Mr. Walker and Mr. Owen appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. A. H. Simpson and Mr. Ralston for the defendants. This was a motion for an injunction to…

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Scottish Australian Mining Investment Company. London, April 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 April 1891 · page 5

The Scottish Australian Mining Investment Company has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. It is proposed to issue 50,000 additional shares, and to call up…

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Coal and Gold Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 5

HOBART, Friday.--Messrs. Law and Co. report to the Latrobe Chamber of Commerce:--"We have 30 miles of coal land, embracing both sides of the railway from Deloraine to…

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Protest Against a Coal Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--In accordance with a requisition presented to the Mayor of Newcastle a public meeting was held in front of the Criterion Hotel to-night to protest against the…

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Miners' Troubles

Evening News · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Friday.—It is expected that the representatives of the Colliery Proprietors' Association, and the Miners* Association will meet in Newcastle, to-day, to consider a remedy for the…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 6

The seventh ordinary general meeting of the Mount Albion Silver Mine was held in London on March 19, Mr. J. J. Wright presiding. In moving the adoption of the report (we learn…

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The Barrier Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 6

BROKEN-HILL, Friday.--There have not been any very important developments at Block 10 during the last few days, hut the mine throughout is looking as well as ever. The slopes are…

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The Western Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 5

LITHGOW, Friday.--At Hartley Yale some difference has developed during the week between the manager and the shale miners over the question of tendering for pillar work, which…

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Maitland Coal Prospects

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 41

MAITLAND, Tuesday.—The East Greta Co., lately formed with a capital of £50,000 to work the coal seams of that company in Maitland, held a preliminary meeting on Monday, when it…

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Newcastle Coal Export

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The export of coal from Newcastle to foreign and intercolonial ports during the past week has been:--To Victoria, 14,450 tons; South Australia, 4169;…

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Mining Gossip

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 20

CRUSHING (we learn from a local paper) commenced last week at Hill End. Several small lots were pub through. Bryant and Howard's 2¾ tons, from the Crudine, went 7ozs., to the ton…

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The Miners' Strike in America. a Pitched Battle with Evicted Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--A number of the miners who have struck for the eight hours system in the State of Pennsylvania, in the United States, have been evicted from their homes…

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A Coal-lumber Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 10

An inquest was held yesterday at the North Sydney Morgue into the circumstances connected with the death of a coal-lumper named John Gilmore, who was killed while working…

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Important Mining Case

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 24

In the mining case of M'Lennan and Day v. Joubert, heard before the warden at Albury, the following report has been submitted to the Minister for Mines: In review of all previous…

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Mining at Zeehan

The Australian Star · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 2

HOBART, Friday.--The Broken Hill Ore Dressing and Smelting Co. is erecting works at Zeehan. Four hundred tons per day of ore from the mines direct will tend to make the…

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The Rich Find in the Jackass Mine

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 24

Concerning the recent rich find at the Jackass Mine, Lucknow, the WESTERN ADVOCATE says that an attractive novelty at the showground at Orange on April 16 was the washing by Mr. H…

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The Barrier Mines. Broken Bill, April 10

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 950

Mr. Thomas, manager of the Central mine, states that the parallel workings at the 300ft. level are steadily improving. The drives which are being run in from the 250ft. and 600ft. crosscuts are passing through ore…

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Nominal Capital Value of Leading Silver Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 4

The coarse of the mining sharemarket during the week has been generally upward. In silver shares the most marked advance has been in Central, which have improved 15s per…

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