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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 356 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 356 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →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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