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

Mining & the mines, 1904

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Colliery Fatalities. London, Feb. 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 February 1904 · page 2

The breaking of a rope at Rotherham (Yorkshire) coalpit precipitated eight miners to the bottom of the shaft. All except one were killed…

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British Coal for Japan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 February 1904 · page 4

Four Japanese steamers are loading at Cardiff 25,000 tons of coal for Tokio…

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A New Coal Seam

Goulburn Herald · Monday 29 February 1904 · page 2

AT the invitation of Mr. D. Barry, several ministers, accompanied by a number of prominent citizens, paid a visit to the Burragorang Valley on Saturday. The object of…

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Gold Yield

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 2

THE gold yield in New South Wales for 1903 shows an increased return of £395,000 on the year 1902. The mines on the C[?]bar field have…

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Coal for Japan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 2

Cardiff is shipping 150,000 tons of cool for the Far East, ordered in February. Japan has ordered an additional 70,000 tons to be shipped in March and April. These shipments are…

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Smokeless Coal for Japan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 March 1904 · page 4

The Welsh smokeless steam coal now owned by Japan is sufficient for the torpedo-boat destroyers for 12 months…

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Australian Coal for Russians

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 March 1904 · page 4

Advices from Tokio received at New York are to the effect that two vessels carrying Australian coal, also British, Norwegian, and German vessels with coal and provisions, have…

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Mining Operations

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 3

MESSRS. Sam and party, who are working the Old Garibaldi, still continue to win encouraging returns from that mine. On Monday last they brought to our office—for…

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Mistresses Who Wait On [?] Servants. and Present Them with Gold and Chrysanthemums.an Exceptional, Dinner

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 1

Good wages don’t seem to make good servants (hey get £2 a week, in New York), and mistresses are at last -beginning to discover that long and faithful service…

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Forbidden to Use Coal

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 3
Also in Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate

So long as wood was abundant, coal was not used in Great Britain : indeed, the latter was long held to he injurious to health; but towards the close of the…

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Sensational Gold Find

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 2

Norseman (W. A.), Monday.—A sensational find was made in Niemen and Fortesoue's claim, known as Ziegler's, this morning. Forty ounces were unearthed in 10 minutes. This is generally…

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Gold Mining

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 3

ON Monday Inst we were shown moth[?] nice cake of retorted geld, this coming from [?]nd Creek near Murrumburrah the gold weighed 35 ounces and was extracted from twenty-live tons of…

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Sensational Gold Find

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 4

NORSEMAN (W.A.), Monday.—A sensational find was made to-day in Niemen and Fortescue's claim, known as Zeigler's, this morning. Forty ounces were unearthed in ton…

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Coal for Japan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 4

It is reported in Liverpool that an English firm is shipping 100,000 tons of coal ostensibly to a Chinese port but really for Japan…

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Mining. CULLINGA

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 2

UP to the close of the year the output from the Christmas Gift was steadily maintained, but an immense creep has necessitated the sinking of a new shaft…

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Sensational Gold Find

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Wednesday 6 April 1904 · page 4

A SENSATIONAL find was made in Nie[?]nen and Fortescue's claim, known as Ziegler's, at No[?]seman, W.A. Forty ounces were unearthed in ten minutes…

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Russians Mine the Coast

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 2

The Russians laid submarine mines along the Taku-shan coast, west of the Yalu, and in the Yalu estuary…

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Latest News. Telegrams. Mining Accident

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 12 April 1904 · page 2

A mining accident occurred at the Broken Hill South Mine, whereby a man named George Braidwood was killed, and J. Poole and W. Flowers…

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Researches in the Southern Gold Fields, Fifty Years Ago

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 April 1904 · page 2

For some years repeated enquires have been made at this office for a copy of the Rev. W, B. Clarke’s work on the Southern Gold Fields, printed almost…

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