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

Mining & the mines, 1901

188 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 10

Trouble on the Gold Coast

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 May 1901 · page 2

Correspondents at the Gold Coast foreshadow a formidable rising of the Adansis, and even of the Bekwais…

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Mining in the Araluen Districts

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 May 1901 · page 4

Araluen, Monday.—At the Warden's Court Warden M'Kensey granted a suspension of six months to Rowland Hassall on private gold leases at Major's Creek,…

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The Coal Tax

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 May 1901 · page 3

In Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Commons, the proposal of the Government to place an export tax of 1s. per ton on coal was carried on division…

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Terrible Colliery Disaster. 150 Miners Entombed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 May 1901 · page 2

An explosion occurred this morning in a colliery at Caerphilly, near Cardiff, Wales; 150 miners are entombed. Intense anxiety as to their fate is manifested by the people…

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Mining Disaster at Broken Hill. Six Men Entombed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 May 1901 · page 2

BROKEN HILL, Friday.—At the South mine this morning a number of men were working at the back of the 500ft. north squaring up and preparing the ground for timbering, and without a note of…

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A Colliery Explosion

Goulburn Herald · Monday 27 May 1901 · page 2

An explosion occurred on Friday morning in a colliery at [?] One hundred and fifty miner are[?] Intense [?]…

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The Colliery Explosion. London, May 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 May 1901 · page 2

The King has expressed deep sympathy with the families of the men who were entombed by the explosion in the mine at Caerphilly and admiration of the gallantry…

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Cable News. a Colliery Explosion. London, May 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 May 1901 · page 2

Further particulars of the explosion at Caerphilly show that the majority of the nightworkers had ascended, though when the accident occurred there were still 70 men in…

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The Broken Hill Mining Disaster

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 29 May 1901 · page 2

THE mayor (Mr. Retallick) is calling a public meeting to consider the best steps to take to establish a South mine relief fund. The board of directors of the Broken Hill…

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Awful Accident at Broken Hill. Six Miners Killed.two Injured. Broken Hill

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 29 May 1901 · page 4

News has just been received of an awful accident at the South Mine. The accident was caused through a fail of earth below the 400ft. level, the collapse being very big…

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Another Colliery Explosion. London, May 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 May 1901 · page 2

An explosion occurred in a colliery at Dayton, Tennessee, yesterday. Twenty-one lives were lost, and nine miners were severely burned,…

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The Colliery Disaster in Wales. London, May 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 May 1901 · page 4

In the colliery explosion at Caerphilly 83 miners were entombed. Thirty-eight bodies have been recovered…

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Colliery Explosion

The Burrowa News · Friday 31 May 1901 · page 3

Further particulars of the expiation at Caerphilly show that the majority of the nightworkers had ascended, though when the accident occurred there were…

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Terrible Mining Fatality. Six Men Killed

The Burrowa News · Friday 31 May 1901 · page 2

A terrible accident occurred on Friday in the south Mine, Broken Hill. Six men were killed and two others injured. The fatality was caused by a fall of earth…

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A Romance of Coal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 June 1901 · page 4

Joseph Davis, who began life as a sawyer and carpenter, and whose honesty and industry carried him on to wealth as a railway contractor, sank all his money in…

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Coal Miners’ Conference. International Strike Urged

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 3 June 1901 · page 2

London, Friday Afternoon.—The representatives of the French coal miners vainly tried to induce the International Miners’ Conference, now sitting in…

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The Coal Trade

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 7 June 1901 · page 4

AT the International Miners' Conference, London, the representatives of the French miners vainly tried to induce congress…

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Gold Dredging Company

Goulburn Herald · Friday 7 June 1901 · page 5

A MEETING of shareholders in the Lambing Flat, Spring Creek and Amalgamated Gold Dredging Company was held at the Oddfellows Hall last evening to hear the report of…

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Romance of a Gold Mine

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1901 · page 5

Near Como, a mining town In Colorado, is a mountain lake--a small hut deep body of water, clear and cold, which seems to he in the centre of an ancient volcano. Several…

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Gold-dredging

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 June 1901 · page 2

The Jerricknorra Centrifugal Sluicing machinery will be given a trial run next week. Steam has been got up in one boiler, and both smoke stacks have been erected. Mr…

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