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Mining & the mines, 1891

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Divulging Mining Telegrams

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 June 1891 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Tuesday. -- One of the telegraph operators, whose services have been dispensed with owing to the finding of the board appointed to investigate the charges…

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Gympie Mines Flooded -- 300 Men Idle

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 June 1891 · page 5

GYMPIE, Tuesday Night. -- The flood waters have broken from the old Columbia shaft right through the Glanmire and Great Eastern mines. About 300 miners are thrown…

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Queensland. Rich Gold -- Probability of a Rush

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 June 1891 · page 5

BRISBANE, Tuesday. -- The gold warden of Maytown has wired the Mines Department as follows: -- "John Meyers and party wire me from The Cohen stating that they have…

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The Oumberland Mining Company. London, June 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 June 1891 · page 7

The Cumberland Mining Company, reconstructed, is issuing £15,000 preference shares at 10 per cent…

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Queensland News. Thursday Island Defences. Rich Gold Yield. BRISBANE

The Australian Star · Wednesday 10 June 1891 · page 4

The Colonial Architect received instructions to prepare a sketch of plans for the erection of a barracks and other buildings required for the defence of Thursday…

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The Severe Weather. Alarm at Grafton. Forecast from Brisbane. Mines Flooded 300 Men Out of Work. GRAFTON

The Australian Star · Wednesday 10 June 1891 · page 5

The utmost anxiety was felt yesterday, as the river continued to rise and reports from up country showed that a large volume of water had to be carried away. At…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 June 1891 · page 10

We are informed that Black and Berry's claim, Yowaka, Pambula, has Been floated under the No Liability Act as the Pambula Gold-mining Company, capital £60,000…

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Leigh's Creek Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 June 1891 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Wednesday. -- A telegram has been received by the Commissioner for Lands from Beltana to the effect that the Leigh's Creek bore is still in coal. The total depth…

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[By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondents.) the Minister of Mines at Sofala. Sofala

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 June 1891 · page 6

The Hon. Sydney Smith, Minister of Mines, addressed one of the largest meetings held in Sofala for some years last night. He met with a most enthusiastic reception. Dr. Hurton, J.P., occupied the…

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Late Mining. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 June 1891 · page 5

No. 1 winze at the 445ft. level of Block 10 is down 30ft., and the bottom continues in rich kaolin and iron. The mine was visited to-day by a crowd of people. The winze in the Central mine at the…

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Wandella Gold-mining Company

The Australian Star · Friday 12 June 1891 · page 4

PERMISSION was granted by Mr. Justice Owen, in the Equity Court this morning, to wind up the Wandella Gold-mining Co…

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A New Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 June 1891 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Thursday. -- This morning a number of gentlemen from Melbourne and Sydney connected with the coal trade arrived at Newcastle in accordance with an invitation…

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Floods in the Wollongong District -- the Collieries Idle

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 June 1891 · page 5

WOLLONGONG, Thursday. -- Rain commenced at about midnight and fell in torrents almost without any intermission until three o'clock this afternoon, since which time, however, it has been fine. During…

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British Columbia Coal Exports

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 12 June 1891 · page 6

We are indebted to Messrs. James Paxton and Co. for the following return, showing the annual output of coal from British Columbia mines during the past 17 years:—…

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Opening of the South Burwood Colliery. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 June 1891 · page 7

At the invitation of the directors of the South Burwood Colliery a large party of gentlemen interested in the coal trade in this district left Newcastle this morning by train shortly before 11 o'clock to…

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The Boorook Gold and Silver Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 24

Leaving then Fairfield, we proceed 30 miles to the north-east of Tenterfield, when we reach the old and once celebrated Boorook mines. They were the first silver mines of any consequence…

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The Lucknow Gold Mine Manager on Unionism

The Australian Workman · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 1

Again Mr. W. H. Newman, the plucky manager of the Lucknow G. M. (Orange), a Labour League nominee, for the ensuing Orange elections, thus expresses himself on…

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Slackness at the Southern Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 5

CLIFTON, Friday.--The whole of the miners and outside laborers employed at the Coalcliff colliery have received notice that their services are no longer required. This…

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Opening a New Colliery

Evening News · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Friday.—In response to an invitation from the directors of the South Burwood Coal Co., several gentlemen, from Sydney and Melbourne interested in the coal trade assisted at the…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 7

A meting of shareholders in the Malacca Diamond and Tin Mining Company, Limited, was old at Victoria-chambers yesterday Mr. Thorne, chairman of the board of…

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