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Mining & the mines, 1896

6,248 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 250

The Waverley Election. Sir Henry Parkes's Meeting. Address at Stratton's Hall. Services in the Past -- Thirty-five Years a Free-trader -- The Gold Medal of the Cobden Club--Federation

The Australian Star · Friday 14 February 1896 · page 3

Sir Henry Parkes, who has been induced by a number of his political friends to offer himself as a candidate in the free-trade interest for Waverley, addressed a meeting…

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Latest Cables. General Cables. The Transvaal Invasion. Official Despatches. Germany's Attitude--Imperial Parliament--The Government and Home Rule--A South Australian Loan--Defences of the Empire--Mining

The Australian Star · Friday 14 February 1896 · page 5

The following cables arrived after yesterday's last edition had gone to press:-- London, February 13. THE TRANSVAAL TROUBLE…

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The Coal Trade. the Northern Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--In the coal trade work has been well distributed, and carried on with increased activity in most of the collieries during the fortnight ended…

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Alleged Breaches of Coal Mine Regulations

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 6

HELENSBURGH, Friday.--At the local police court to-day five very important prosecutions against miners for breaches of the Coalmine Regulations Act were begun at…

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Underground Ghosts. a Coal Mine Story

Evening News · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 3

THE public have heard a good deal of the hardships of a collier's life first and last; but…

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The Western Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 6

LITHGOW, Friday.--Coal dealt with here during January was 11,402 tons. At present the trade is in about the same condition as for weeks past…

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The Southern Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 6

WOLLONGONG, Friday.--The coal trade was dull at this end of the district during the early part of the week, but improved during the latter portion, when most of the…

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The Northern Coal Trade. Colliery Proprietors and the Premier

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 28

As a result of a deputation which waited upon him asking his intervention, with a view to improving the condition of the coal trade, Mr. Reid, on February 6, held a conference with a number of…

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Mining

The Catholic Press · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 16
Also in The Daily Telegraph

THE following sales were reported:—Silver: North Central, 2s. 1d., 2s.; South (contributing), 11s. 9d. Gold: Great Boulder, £5 15s. Copper: Nymagee, 45s. 6d., 46s.; Wallaroo…

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The Coal Trade

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 323

It cannot be said that the conference of the Northern mine-owners with the Premier has done much towards solving the problems of the coal trade, though it has, perhaps, brought out more…

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Heated Coal Cargo

The Australian Star · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 6

The ship Hollinwood, reported as having put into Lyttelton with her cargo of coal heated, resumed her passage to Sim Francisco on Saturday last, with 1400 tons of…

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The Coal Trade

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 356

At the request of the Premier the representatives of several of the Newcastle collieries waited upon him on February 6 and conferred as to the state of the Newcastle coal trade. The…

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Accident in a Mine

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 18

ORANGE, Monday— While a miner named William Johnson, employed in the Wentworth Gold Mine, Lucknow, was being lowered with his mates down the main shaft, which is now 700ft…

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The Great Boulder Mine

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 356

The Kalgoorlie Western Argus gives the following particulars of the plaint for forfeiture of the Great Boulder lease at Kalgoorlie, on the ground that portions of the lease have been sublet for purposes…

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The Gold Fields

Evening News · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 7

DRAKE, Friday.—Mining (matters at Drake were rather quiet this week. Hancock and party's parcel of 22 tons of stone is going through the Adeline battery, and the plates are looking fairly…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 356

A special meeting of the Central Broken Hill Silver-mining Company was held in Melbourne on February 6 for the purpose of passing certain resolutions connected with the winding up of the…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 12

There was an all-round fall in the price of silver shares in the Mining market yesterday, by far the heaviest being in Broken Hill Proprietary, which sold on Thursday from 58s 3d, 58s 6d, down to…

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The Heated Coal Cargo

Evening News · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 5

The surveyor's report on the coal cargo of the ship Knight of St. Michael states that the coal in No. 3 batch was warm enough in the middle to slightly heat an iron bar, and yet the report goes on…

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Delegates to the Miners' Conference

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 25

(FROM A PHOTO FROM THE EDEN PHOTO STUDIOS, OPPOSITE THE RAILWAY STATION GEORGE-STREET, SYDNEY.)…

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