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Mining & the mines, 1895

5,887 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 250

Newcastle-walls-end Coal Co

The Australian Star · Friday 25 January 1895 · page 2

The Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Co. held its half-yearly meeting yesterday at its offices in Bridge-street, Mr. W. B. Walford presiding. The directors in their report stated--…

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Gold-saving Machine. Trial of an Electrical Patent

The Australian Star · Friday 25 January 1895 · page 2

A public trial of Weeden's patent electric gold amalgamator took place at Messrs. Petersen and Co.'s steam sawmills, Bathurst-street, yesterday afternoon, about…

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Mining. the Broken-hill Proprietary Company, Limited

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 January 1895 · page 6

The half-yearly report of this company is specially interesting, as it shows the working with silver and lead at bed-rock prices. The are treated during the half-year was…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade. Swansea V. Newcastle. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 January 1895 · page 6

Sir, -- Mr. Alexander Brown's letter, published in your issue of 21st inst., is like the play of "Hamlet" with Hamlet left out. The case he quotes -- namely, of an ocean…

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Wentworth Goldfields Proprietary Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1895 · page 7

At the third annual general meeting of shareholders in the Wentworth Goldfields Proprietary Company, held in London on the 17th December, the chairman, the Right Hon. Earl of Kilmorey, K.P.,…

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The Coal Trade. the Northern Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Friday. A deputation of the Wickham and Bullock Island miners waited on the colliery manager to-day to endeavor to secure a modification of the…

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The Coal Trouble.s The Wallsend Miners. The Seaham Colliery. Disturbance at Greta

Evening News · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 6

The monthly meeting of the Walls-end Miners Lodge was held in the local school of arts last night, Mr. J. Punton being in the chair. The balance-…

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Mining Gossip. New Gold Finds

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 10

WARDEN T. A. Smith, of Trunkey, has telegraphed to the Mines Department as follows:— "A rotten reef has been found in Warren and Larnach's freehold near Newbridge. When I visited the find…

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The Southern Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 6

BULLI, Friday. The South Bull mine worked three days this week, the pay for tho fortnight being for seven and a half days…

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Gold Mines of Western Australia. London, Jan. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 9

The United Nicol Gold-mining Company, Western Australia, with a capital of £80,000, has been registered…

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The Colliery Disaster. Hope Abandoned. Scenes at the Colliery

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 11

LONDON, January 16.—Pitiful scenes are being witnessed at the Giglake Colliery, Audley, Staffordshire, where many of the wives and mothers of…

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Newcastle Coal Trade. the Wallsend Miners. an Offer by the Colliery Manager. Ballot As to Acceptance. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 10

The monthly meeting of the Wallsend miners was held this evening in the Wallsend School of Arts. Mr. J. P[?]nton, the lodge chairman, presided. The secretary read the minutes, and also…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 6

At Major's Creek, Braidwood (a correspondent states) a Melbourne party have taken up the Snob's reef, and are now working it with 13 men, seven more being…

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Fassifern Coal Company

Evening News · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 5

LONDON, January 25.-The Faseifern Coal Company, New South Wales, with a capital of £50,000, has been registered…

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The Coal Trade

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 199

The output of coal for the Lithgow collieries for week ending 18th January was 2597 tons. BULLI, JAN. 18. The coal trade is exceedingly slack on all sides…

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Miners' Union at Wyalong

The Australian Workman · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 1

A MASS meeting of miners was held last Saturday at Wyalong to consider the best means of preventing the continuance of reduced wages, now very…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 11

No business was reported in the Mining market yesterday, and quotations showed little change. B. H. Proprietary shares closed at 39s seller. Of Centrals there were buyers at 3s 6d, and sellers…

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The Mining Industry

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 199

A deputation consisting of Messrs. Tonkin, Lyne, and Moore, Ms.L.A., and Mr. Robins, of Kiandra, waited upon the Minister for Mines last week, and asked that steps should be taken by the Government…

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Western Australian Gold-fields. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Coolgardie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 9

The statement that a motion of want of confidence in Mr. C. J. Moran, the member for Yilgarn, at a meeting held at Ha[?]an's had been carried, is not quite correct. The motion was proposed…

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American Currency. the Gold Bonds

Evening News · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 4

LONDON, January 25.-The New York correspondent of the Daily News states that owing to the action of Congress in refusing to place the…

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