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Page 46
... paid 5/11 in call on every share received back only sixpence in dividends , and this was only the second dividend ever paid by a West Tasmanian mine . It was paid on 27 October 1889 , at a time when the battery was not pay- ing its way ...
... paid 5/11 in call on every share received back only sixpence in dividends , and this was only the second dividend ever paid by a West Tasmanian mine . It was paid on 27 October 1889 , at a time when the battery was not pay- ing its way ...
Page 162
... paid shares . The traditional formality of the balance sheets obscured from the lay- man the true story that when the company was floated in England , 400,000 fully - paid £ 1 shares were divided amongst promoters , new directors , and ...
... paid shares . The traditional formality of the balance sheets obscured from the lay- man the true story that when the company was floated in England , 400,000 fully - paid £ 1 shares were divided amongst promoters , new directors , and ...
Page 164
... paid £ 45,000 for 30 per cent of the shares ; the British in- vesting public paid £ 25,000 for 5.3 per cent of the shares . For the same money the Australians received twenty shares , the British financial clique three shares , and the ...
... paid £ 45,000 for 30 per cent of the shares ; the British in- vesting public paid £ 25,000 for 5.3 per cent of the shares . For the same money the Australians received twenty shares , the British financial clique three shares , and the ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill cent copper company's Comstock copper cost Creek Crotty diggers dividends Dixon drill Dundas Eldon Ranges Emu Bay engineer feet field fire furnaces gold Gormanston gossan hauled Heemskirk Hercules Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later Launceston lease Linda Valley lode London Lyell Copper Lyell directors Lyell Mining Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain Murray North Lyell open cut pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port price of copper profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen River Queenstown rail rich rock Rosebery Schlapp shaft shareholders ship silver smelters smelting smoke South Sticht stope Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis timber tons town track Trent Trial Harbour tunnel union Victoria Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc