Interco onial Mining News. New South Wales
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 14
From the new find, Omadale Brook (Moonan Brook), the Federal claim, owned by Reidman and party, from 13 tons of stone got a return of 18½oz of retorted gold. The reef is from 18in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →General News. Ambulance Work in Mining Centres
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 1058
The Secretary for Mines has for some time endeavoured to create interest in the large mining centres in ambulance work, whereby working miners and others engaged in collieries…
Continued on Trove, page 1058 →The West Australian Gold- Fields. Sale of the Peak-hill Leases
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 10
PERTH, Friday.--An English company has purchased the whole of the leases at Peak-hill for close upon £100,000. The West Australian Proprietary Cement Leases crushed 106 tons for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Recent Earthquake. How it Affected Victoria. Business Suspended for a Day. Miners Rush From Work--Hundrods of Cloaks and Ornaments Broken-- Chimneys Crashing to the Ground
The Australian Star · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 3
The most severe shock of earthquake since the colonisation of Victoria took place on Monday afternoon (says the "Argus"), when the whole of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New Guinea Goldfields
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 9
Mr. Tozer has received a despatch from Sir William Macgregor, Governor of British New Guinea, dated 29th March, which states:—"I am not prepared to recommend that any large…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Charters Towers Goldfields
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 12
Messrs. Alan B. Bright and Co. in their review of mining at Charters Towers for the month of April report as follows:—The figures for April were exceedingly satisfactory, and if the Papuan cake and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The New Guinea Goldfields. COOKTOWN
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 1055
The Yaralla arrived from New Guinea on Wednesday night with 45 passengers. The captain reports that about 19th April a severe storm occurred at Woodlark, which blew the camps over…
Continued on Trove, page 1055 →The New Guinea Goldfields Tricks on the Natives
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 9
BRISBANE, Friday.--The Acting-Chief Secretary has received a dispatch from the Governor of New Guinea reporting that five miners, whose names are unknown, induced a number of natives…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fatal Mining Accident. Two Men Killed. MELBOURNE, Saturday Night
Sunday Times · Sunday 16 May 1897 · page 5
At the South Star mine, Ballarat, last night, two men named Wm. Taylor and J. Chappel were suffocated from foul air. Both men leave large families…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining and Finance. Yesterday's Stock and Share Quotations. Our Letter-box. to Correspondents
Sunday Times · Sunday 16 May 1897 · page 3
[Letters marked "Mining" must reach us not later than Thursday. No notion is taken of anonymous correspondence. The coupon printed in the "Free Information" column must be cut out and forwarded with any inquiry.]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victoria. Mining Disaster at Sebastopol. Two Miners Suffocated. Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 May 1897 · page 5
During Friday night two miners, named William Taylor and William John Chappell, were suffocated by poisonous gas in the South Star Company's mine at Sebastopol, Ballarat. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Miners Suffocated
Evening News · Monday 17 May 1897 · page 7
MELBOURE, Monday.—An accident occurred in the, South Star Mine, Sebastopol, on Friday night, when two miners named William Taylor and William Chappie were suffocated by foul air…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wallsend Miners
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 May 1897 · page 5
The Wallsend miners held their monthly meeting on Friday evening, the chairman (Mr. W. Bower) presiding. The check Inspector's report was read, and in the discussion which followed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 May 1897 · page 7
Also in Evening News
Although the actual business done on the Sydney Stock Exchange was not extensive, the mining market was Arm on Saturday. Silver stocks fully sustained the rise of the previous day, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yields. Gold
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 May 1897 · page 7
Eleanora G. and A. M. Company, Hillgrove, 470 tons (including 1[?]oz. in concentrates), [?]oz., No. 1 North Phoenix, Gymple, 600 tons, 468oz. Sunlight G. M. Company, Hillgrove (including 8oz. in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Trimmers' Difficulty
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 May 1897 · page 6
A mass meeting of coal trimmers was held in the shelter shed at the dyke at 10 o'clock this morning for the purpose of considering what action shall be taken with the view to obtaining an advance…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Intelligence
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 May 1897 · page 7
A moderate amount of business was transacted IN the Mining market on Saturday, and generally the firm tone that characterised the last few days of the week was maintained. The feature of the day was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Resuming Work in Abandoned Mines
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 May 1897 · page 5
Overtures have been made to the Mines Department by a representative of an English syndicate to take up the leases of a number of old mines in various parts of the colony where…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Southern Coal Trade. Clifton
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 May 1897 · page 6
The Southern coal trade during the past week was fairly active. For the fortnightly pay drawn last evening the Mount Kembla mine worked seven and a quarter days, Mount Keira and Mount…
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