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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. Fire in a Colliery

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 4

THE fire in Gunnedah colliery is still raging, and it is expected it will be hard work to extinguish it. The Plague…

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Wins £250,000 Worth of Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 4

Gundagai, Friday.—Mr. William Williams, the well-known mining pioneer, of Adelong, who resides at Adelong Crossing, celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday, when a large…

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Ways of Living. State Secrets Bought with Gold

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 2

The traitor to his country who, confidentially employed in some important embassy or bureau, is in reality the secret agent of a rival State, is to-day perhaps…

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The Transvaal War. Advance of Lord Roberts. Mafeking Safe on April 27. Rand Mines Flooded. Free Staters Willing to Submit. London, May 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 2

Field-Marshal Lord Roberts reports that the enemy in the retreat from the Zand River cut the telegraph wires north of the river. On Thursday the enemy was in full…

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Mining. Dredging in Braidwood District

Goulburn Herald · Monday 21 May 1900 · page 2

GOLD-DREDGING matters are very brisk. The new Kershaw pump has been started at the Federal Centrifugal Company, and is doing splendid work, although only at about…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 23 May 1900 · page 3

THE application lodged under the Mining on Private Lands Act of 1894 by J. A. Gegg for 30a. 2r, 10p., Larbert, has been approved of, and it is intended to issue lease of same on…

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Mining at Bywong

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 May 1900 · page 4

Bywong, Saturday.—Mining matters in this district are being conducted very quietly, yet persistently. The various parties at work are all very busy with purely prospecting…

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The War. Boers Entrenching. a Capture at Mafeking. the Mines Safe. Laing's Nek Re-occupied. Ian Hamilton's Advance. London, Wednesday Afternoon. Lord Roberts's Headquarters

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 May 1900 · page 2

Lord Roberts now has his headquarters at Honning Spruit, 18 miles north of Kroonstad BOERS ENTRENCHING…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Friday 25 May 1900 · page 5

A Braidwood syndicate has acquired a six months option over a dredging lease of about 800 acres, immediately above the Warri Bridge, on the Shoalhaven River. The…

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Wins £250,000 Worth of Gold

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 1

MR William Williams, the well-known mining pioneer, of Adolong Crossing, celebrated hie 100th birthday last week, when a large number of residents of the distriot…

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Western Australian Goldfields. London, May 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 2

In the House of Commons last night Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the colonies, in answer to a question in regard to the Western Australian Goldfields separation petition, said that in view of…

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Destruction of Vaal Collieries Prevented

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 2

Lord Roberts telegraphs that the vanguard of his army arrived at the Vaal just in time to prevent the destruction of collieries on both sides of the river abutting on the railway…

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A Terrible Mining Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 4

Queenstown (Tas.), Sunday.—The Lyell Tharsis mine was the scene of a frightful accident this morning, two men—Con Cronin and Thos. Murphy—losing their lives during…

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Foreign Intervention in South Africa.—why Not Likely at Any Time. — Destruction of Johannesburg and of the Mines a Crime More Prejudicial to the Transvaal People Than to Others. — British Government of Dependencies Is for the Benefit of the People of Those Countries, Not for the Enrichment of Great Britain

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 30 May 1900 · page 2

THE mission of the Transvaal delegates to the European powers and to the United States in soliciting foreign interference in the war with Great…

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New Coal Centre

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 May 1900 · page 1

West Maitland, Saturday.—In the opinion of many persons, who are peculiarly well qualified to form a judgment, the Maitland district will before long be the headquarters…

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The Transvaal War. Lord Roberts at Johannesburg. British Not Seriously Opposed. Mines Uninjured. Speech by Lord Salisbury. How Settlement Will Be Attained. London, May 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 May 1900 · page 2

Field-Marshal Lord Roberts has sent the following telegram to the War Office:— "Glermiston (a suburb of Johannesburg), Tuesday evening. We have arrived at this…

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Shipments of Gold

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 2

SHIPMENTS of gold from Melbourne by the Orizabn on Tuesday amounted to £108,000. The steamer Chingtn, which sailed on Monday night for Hongkong, took five boxes of…

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Northern Alaska Goldfields. Nearest the Pole

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 1

Australian readers may be interested in learning the condition of the newest, and perhaps the richest, gold-field in the world—a gold-field worked, not…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 4

ON 'Change on Wednesday afternoon the following telegram was posted from the engineer for the contractors of the Araluen Proprietary Dredging Company, in answer to inquiries:—"Not a particle…

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Mining at Tuena

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 5

TURNA, Monday.—The late rains have caused a revival in mining in this locality, especially in sluicing. There are a number of races and claims that had been idle for the last four or five years, but…

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