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

Mining & the mines, 1902

183 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 10

Mining Court

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 2

AT the Mining Court, Young, last week, before Warden Robertson, P.M., a partnership matter was dealt with…

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Terrible Explosion at Mount Kembla Colliery. Dense Smoke Issuing From the Pit. Two Hundred Miners Entombed. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday, 4.30 p.m

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 2

News has been received of a terrible colliery explosion at Mount Kembla. All available doctor have been sent for. No further particulars are yet…

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The Kembla Disaster. 74 Bodies Recovered. Escape of Over 100 Miners. Wollongong

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 2

The worst fears of the people of Mount Kembla and Wollongong, and of tire hundreds of people gathered around the rulned muchinery and debrisstrewn entrance to the Mount Kembla tunnel, have…

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Frightful Catastrophe. Colliery Explosion at Mount Kembla. 300 Men Reported Entombed. Wollongong, Thursday, 2.30 p.m

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 3

News has — just been received that a terrible explosion has occurred at Mount Kembla Co[?]ery. A telephone message received asked that all doctors be sent out…

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A Dreadful Disaster. Twenty-six Men Killed. About Eighty Men Still Entombed. One Hundred Miners Escape. Some Heartrending Scenes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 5

A dreadful colliery explosion took place at the Mount Kembla Colliery shortly after 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, at a time when there were some 230 men ill the mine. The…

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Dreadful Colliery Catastrophe, Mount Kembla Mine Explosion. Great Loss of Life

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 4 August 1902 · page 2

Shortly after 2 o’cleck on Thursday afternoon a terrific explosion took place in the Mount Kembla Coal Mine, situated in the side of the mountain, some eight miles…

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Mount Kembla Disaster. Ninety Bodies Recovered. Damage to the Colliery. Sydney

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 6 August 1902 · page 3

The worst fears with regard to the terrible disaster at the Mount Kembla mine have, unfortunately, been realised. It is now known that all who…

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The Mount Kembla Disaster. Operations of the Rescue Parties. Heroic Deaths, the Cause of the Explosion. the Awful Scene at the Mine

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 6 August 1902 · page 4

THE heart quails it the magnitude of the Mt- Kembla calamity. It is now known that about 260 men were in the mine. Up till midnight on Friday 69 lifeless bodies…

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The Colliery Disaster

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 August 1902 · page 2

THE tragedy of life is not presented only on the battle field. If peace bath her victories no less than war, so most certainly can she number among her…

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Labour for the Goldfields

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 August 1902 · page 3

Some influential mining houses on the Rand are attempting to prepare the way for Chinese labour. The Johannesburg correspondent of the…

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Cable News. South Africa. Labour for the Mines

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 11 August 1902 · page 2

London, August 7, 2.40 p.m.—Reuter’s correspondent at Johannesburg states that the labour question is daily becoming more acute. Six hundred thousand…

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Mining Court. MONDAY. Before Mr. Warden Robertson P.M. TRESPASS

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 13 August 1902 · page 2

John Hunter Y. John Chesworth. Claim for £5 damages for trespass on sluicing claim. Mr. Hogan appeared for complainant, Mr…

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Gold Find in Bathurst District

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 August 1902 · page 4

Bathurst, Monday.—A splendid display et alluvial gold was exhibited in the window of a local jeweller to-day, consisting of a number of nuggets weighing 62oz., and valued at £240 Some of the…

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Mining in the Braidwood District

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 August 1902 · page 4

The official starting of the Day Dawn battery took place on Monday. Mr. A. E. Chapman, M.L.A. for the district, turned on the steam and put the machinery in motion. There was a large…

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Mining court. THURSDAY. Before Mr. Warden Robertson, P.M. TRESPASS

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 16 August 1902 · page 2

John H[?]ter v. John Chatsworth and others. Claim for £5 damages for trespass on sluicing claim Mr. Hogan for complainant, Mr. Gordon…

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The World's Eldorado. Wonders of South Africa's Great Goldfields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 August 1902 · page 2

The world's real Eldorado was in South Africa; and it was, surely, one of the strangest of the ironies of Fate that one corner of the earth, hitherto dubbed the Dark…

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Mine Disaster in Pennsylvania. 112 Men Killed

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 20 August 1902 · page 4

IN the North American newspaper of July 13, which has been sent to us by Mr. S. A. Sands, formerly of Goulburn, is described a catastrople similar to that which occurred…

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District Mining

The Yass Courier · Friday 22 August 1902 · page 2

Every now and then it happens that a boom in mining comes along with the result that sometimes payable stone is found and sometimes the claims prove…

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The World's Eldorado. Wonders of South Afric's Great Goldfields

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 23 August 1902 · page 2

The world's real Eldorado was in South Africa; and it was surety, one of the strangest of the ironies of Fate that one comer of the earth, hitherto dubbed the…

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District Mining. Rye Park Shows

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 2 September 1902 · page 2

A very important development has taken place in Masey and Menary’s new mine near Rye Park. The shaft is improving as it is being sunk and copper…

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