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Mining & the mines, 1898

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Coal for the City Council

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 March 1898 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The City Council, in response to advertisements for the supply of 5000 tons of screened coal delivered at the electric light station, Spencer-street, received two…

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CHARTERS From 1st March COAL

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 14 March 1898 · page 7

Barcore, sh, Newcastle to the West Coast Baroda, bq, Newcastle to the West Coast Birma, bq, Newcastle to the West Coast Bundaleer, bq, Newcastle to San Francisco…

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The Proposed Aggregate Meeting of Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 March 1898 · page 6

An aggregate meeting of the members of the Colliery Employees' Federation was convened for Saturday morning in Downie's Paddock, Plattsburg, to consider the present situation of…

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Colliery Trouble. Aggregate Meeting of liners. Indefinitely Postponed. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Monday 14 March 1898 · page 7

The aggregate meeting of members of the Colliery Employees Federation, which was to have been held to-day, has been postponed owing to the paucity of attendance…

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Country New. the Coal-weighing Difficulty. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 March 1898 · page 6

Great interest [?] throughout the district in the [?] of the interview between representatives [?] colliery owners of the colony and the [?] for Mines with reference to section…

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London Mining Market. London, March 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 March 1898 · page 7

Broken Hill Proprietary shares, 33s. Mount Lyell, £13 12s 6d. Mount Lyell South, 16s. North Mount Lyell, £3 0s 7½d…

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Newcastle. Miners' Aggregate Meeting. Apathy of the Men. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 March 1898 · page 5

The aggregate meeting of miners convened for yesterday morning lapsed owing to the paucity of attendance, and was indefinitely postponed. This was the first aggregate meeting called for some years…

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The Russian Gold Reserve. Withdrawal of £14,000,000

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 March 1898 · page 5

LONDON, Friday Night:--The Russian Government have decided to withdraw £14,000,000 from the gold reserves of the Empire…

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The Kalgoorlie Mining Trouble a Curious Demonstration. PERTH

The Australian Star · Monday 14 March 1898 · page 5

About noon on Saturday the men at work on the Ivanhoe lease assembled 2000 strong, to accompany the two diggers, Smith and Rost, to the railway station, for the purpose…

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Gold, Ores and Metals. Exported From New South Wales to Oversea Ports for Fight Months Ended February 28Th, 1898. SHIPPERS

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 14 March 1898 · page 3

Union Bank of Aust, Ltd, 165 bxs sovereigns (£825,000) Bank of Australasia, Ltd, 181 bxs sovereigns (£900,000)…

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The Klondyke Goldfields. (From Our Correspondent.) Victoria (British Columbia), Feb. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 March 1898 · page 5

The rush to the gilded Klondyke is now on in earnest, and every steamer bound to the gateway cities, from which the divers trails leading to the Mecca of the treasure-seekers start, is crowded to…

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West Australian Goldfields. Norseman

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 March 1898 · page 6

The fortnignt's clean up at St. Agnes of 180 tons yielded 149oz. 3dwt. A dividend was declared yesterday in the W.A. Union, which is now held by a local syndicate, who announceda £25…

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Terrible Colliery Accident. a Scotch Mine Flooded

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 March 1898 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday Night.--The Muld-houseburn colliery at Muirkirk, Scotland, has been flooded, and many of the miners entombed. Sixteen of the men were rescued…

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Colliery Disaster. Three Miners Drowned. London, March 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1898 · page 5

The Muldhouseburn Colliery at Muirkirk, in Ayrshire, Scotland, has been flooded. Sixteen miners were rescued after having been entombed in the…

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The Colliery Trouble Mines May Close Down. A Serious Position

The Australian Star · Tuesday 15 March 1898 · page 5

It is reported that the different colliery proprietors who have had the weighing difficulty under consideration have arrived at a decision that if the Act is enforced they will…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 March 1898 · page 7
Also in Evening News

On the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday North Nymagee and Queensland Menzies had most attention--the former sold to 35½ and then suddenly dropped to 3, and the latter improved to 15. A sale was recorded…

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Yields. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1898 · page 7

Cobar Great Western, 291oz. 17dwt. Klink's mine, Wyalong, 49 tons, 28oz. 12dwt. 6gr. Lake View Consols, Kalgoorlie (concentrates), 1894oz. New Royal Standard, Stewart's Brook (also 22oz…

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Distress Among the Miners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1898 · page 5

Mr. Joseph Creer, Superintendent of the Government Labour Bureau, visited Newcastle to-day for the purpose of investigating the condition of the miners thrown out of employment owing to the…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1898 · page 7

Business in the mining market yesterday was quiet, and the numbers of exchanges were limited. Coal companies were without recorded sales, but Hetton shares were quoted weaker, whilst Wallsend…

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