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A strange story has been told by a dying soldier. The man had seen service in the British army in India, and on his deathbed he sent for officials…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Saturday.— The export of coal to ports beyond the colony for the week ended last night was: Victoria, 14,150 tons, West Australia 2500, United States 4070, South Australia 4410,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The in miners' pay which was drawn to-day for the fortnight ending on Saturday last was again a good one in most of the cases, and but for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PERTH, Saturday.— A number of gentlemen, including Mr. Sylvester Browne, have arrived at the Collgardie Gold Fields, for the purpose of inspecting Bayley's mine. On Thursday the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PERTH, Friday,-- The latest news from Coolgard[?] states that the miners at Hannan's have struck for a reduction of their working time from 48 hours to 47 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Thursday Night.--Mr. G. P. Doolette, of Adelaide, who is London endeavoring to float several mines at Cool gardie (W.A.), has been advised by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BROKEN-HILL, Friday.âThe work of sending away ore from the Junction mine has been entirely stopped pending the reopening of the smelters at Port Adelaide…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At Zeehan the managers of several mining companies at a meeting adopted the following scale of wages: Enginedrivers, 9s; miners, 8s 4d; surface hands, 7s 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →MR. Slee, the Chief Inspector of Mines, returned to Sydney from Wyalong on Thursday. Mr. Slee's views upon the field have already been given in a report by him to his department, and…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →LONDON, March 30.— The West Australian gold exhibits are attracting much attention. Messrs. Spink and Son, the well-known goldsmiths of Gracechurch-street and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE first water-jacket erected by. the Great Cobar Syndicate is now completed, and smelting will commence immediately. The jacket is capable of treating 30 or 40 tons daily…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Mr. Robert Young writes:— To beach miners on the Richmond and elsewhere, as the result of six months' study and treatment of beach sand from numerous localities between the Clarence and the Tweed: I…
Continued on Trove, page 668 →TEMORA, Tuesday— About 100 miners arrived by train this morning en route to Wyalong. The following telegram has been received by the Mines Department from the warden at…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →BOWRAL, Wednesday.— A representative resident of this town who is at Wyalong has written warning people that the place is overrun in every particular. Plenty of tradesmen and mechanics,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →LITHGOW, Friday.--The coal trade this week has undergone no change. At the New Vale pit the strike has not been settled. Some Sydney free laborers have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the police court to-day W. J. Akers and A. H. Darcy, miners, and H. Burt, deputy at the Stockton Colliery, were charged with feloniously slaying Robert Donaldson in the colliery on 10th…
Continued on Trove, page 669 →The Submarine Miners at Chowder Bay continued laying out and connecting up mines yesterday. During the morning Major-General Hutten, who was accompanied by Colonel Renny Tailyour…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, March. 29.— The financiers to whom the scheme have been submitted advice Mr. Doolette, of South Australia, who is in England for the purpose of floating…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LAST week a party of Murrumburrah residents, having secured a block of land on Kemp's Hill, decided to Introduce a Jerger machine to win the gold therefrom. The party (says the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In no civilised country in which gold has once been found and obtained for the mere trouble of digging it out of the earth, as if it were a potato, or other vegetable crop,…
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