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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1901

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MINING. White Cliffs Opal Company

Barrier Miner · Monday 29 April 1901 · page 2

MR. RICHARD BEATON, who arrived from London on Monday last by the Orizaba, proceeded to White Cliffs from Broken Hill on Saturday to take up the position of…

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Explosion ia a Colliery. LONDON, Monday. [?]

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 2

An explosion has occurred in the Horner colliery at Mons, in Belgium. Eighteen of the men were killed…

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Shutting Down the Mines. To the Residents of Broken Hill

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 3

LADIES and GENTLEMEN,—To shut down the Broken Hill Mines and throw hundreds of Broken Hill men cut of work, and to neglect our plain duty to give…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Mount Garnet Freehold. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 2

The directors of the Mount Garnet Freehold Mining Company intend asking the shareholders to l[?] debentures to provide the capital for contracting a railway to junction…

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Mines Department Officers Suspended. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 May 1901 · page 1

C. Conves and G. Houston, two well-known officers of the Victorian Mines Department, are under suspension. The former is charged with the embizzliment of £79, which was…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Lead Market. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 May 1901 · page 2

The Proprietary's latest quotations from "bondon are:—Lead, £12 5s. per ton; silver, 2s. 3½. per oz.; both buyers…

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The British Budget. New Duties Agreed to. The Sugar and Coal Taxes. The War Loan. [Reuter's Messages.] London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 May 1901 · page 2

Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, expressed his belief, replying to a miners' deputation yesterday, that the new export duty on coal…

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Mining. [Reuter's Message.] The Waihi Gold Mining Company. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 May 1901 · page 2

The Waihi Gold Mining Company, Now Zsaland, proposes to Increase its capital to £500,000…

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Bairns Mines. Thursday; May 2, 1901. the Technical College

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 May 1901 · page 2

PERHATS it is because by comparison with what private eiterpriso has done for Broken Hill public enterprise has done so little that we feel more feratefal than…

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Stealing Sixpennyworth of Coal. a Miner Fined £5. [By Telegraph,] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 May 1901 · page 2

Ernest Blanth was yesterday afternoon fined £5 at Korumburra Cor taking 63, worth of coal without permission. The men asked unsuccessfully for his reinstatement at the…

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[By Telgraph.] West Australia's Goldfields. PERTH, Wednesday Evening

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 May 1901 · page 2

The gold yield of West Australia for the month of April is valued at £507,751…

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The Coal Export Duty. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 2

The threat of the Miners' Federation to cause a general strike of miners if the export duty on coal is agreed to by Parliament is strongly resented by the…

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Miners' Accident Relief Fund. General Regulation. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 2

Additional regulations in connection with the Miner[?] Accident Belief Fund were published in a Government Gazette yesterday. They provide that the members of the…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Block 10 Dividend: ls. Only. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 2

The fill in lead to £12 5s. per ton is responsible for thc Block 10 directors reducing the company's dividend now declared to ls. This is the lowest dividend paid since…

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The Coal Export Duty. a General Strike Favored. [Reuter's Message.] London, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 1

The Miners' Federation of Great Britain favors a general strike if the proposed export duty on coal is approved of by Parliament…

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Mining. [By Telegaph.] New South Wales Gold Returns. SYDNEY, Satarday

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 1

The gold yield ot New South Wales for April is officially returned at 27,017cs., valued £89,856…

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The Coal Export Tax. [Reuter's Messages.] London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 4

Owing to the proposed coal export tax. Mr. John Wilson, Unionist member of the Commons for Falkirk, has quitted the party…

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[?] Mine[?]. Saturday, May 4, 1901. Lies, the Father of War

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 4

IT seems probable that if the truth were always told war would soon become impossible or well-nigh so. It is lying that produces it, lying that supports it…

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The Prospective Coal Strike. LONDON, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Monday 6 May 1901 · page 1

There is much excitement in the mining districts of Great Britain over the prospective strike of colliers. Some of the counties strongly oppose the…

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Ba[?] Mine[?]. Monday, May 6, 1901. the Royal Visit

Barrier Miner · Monday 6 May 1901 · page 2

THE Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York are to land in Australia to-day; the procession from the Ophir to Melbourne Government House is timed to…

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