Dramatic Suicide. Mine Manager Shoots Himself
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 May 1904 · page 4
A sensation was caused in Sydney on Tuesday afternoon, when a mine manager named John Pearce committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver in Post Office Chambers, Pitt-street…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 May 1904 · page 3
Kalgoorlie (W.A.), Wednesday.âThe comparatively long spell during which the Kalgoorlie mines have been free from appalling life-destroying accidents was rudely broken this morning by the…
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Goulburn Herald · Friday 27 May 1904 · page 3
ON Wednesday a catastrophe occurred at the Great Boulder Proprietary mine, Kalgoorlie, by which five men lost their lives. The cause of the fatality was one of the winding…
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The Burrowa News · Friday 27 May 1904 · page 1
So long as wood was abundant, coal was not used in Great. British; indeed, the latter was long held to be injurious to health; but towards the close of the…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 2
Owing to drifting mines the British fleet will not proceed north of Wusung…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 5
Mr. Lawrence, lecturer of maritime law at the Staff Co legs, Greenwich, in giving an opinion on the sowing of floating mines outside Port Arthur, says there is no precedent to guide us, but every…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Catastrophe at Kalgoorlie, Five Lives-lost. a Cage Falls Four Hundred Feet. Perth
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 3
A dreadFul catastrophe, involving the loss of five lives, occurred at the Great Boulder Mine, Kalgoorlie, this morning. Samuel Jones, Thomas Bates, Thomas Morley,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Report Campaign. Mr. Carruthers Spears. The Government's Extravagrnce. What Reformers Propose. New Land and Mining Laws. Canada's Example
Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 2
THE Lender of the Opposition and President of the Liberal and Reform Association, Mr. J. H. Carruthers, M.L.A. arrived in Murrumburrah at…
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Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 31 May 1904 · page 4
KALGOORLIE, Wednesday.—The comparatively long spell during which the Kalgoorlie mines have been free from appalling life-destroying accidents…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 June 1904 · page 4
Braidwood, Thursday.—A nugget of nearly pure gold has been purchased by the City Bank, weighing 105oz. It was found at Nerriga. It is stated that 50oz or 60oz had previously been broken off by the…
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Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 7 June 1904 · page 4
"[?] ead of the probable trebling in the pr[?]e of anthracite coal, due to the big strike in Pennsylvania, by ordering five tons of furnace coal yesterday…
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Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 7 June 1904 · page 2
BRAIDWOOD, Thursday.—A [?]gget of nearly pure gold has been purchased by the City BanK, weighing 105oz. It was found at Nerriga. It is stated…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 5
The Under-Secretary for Mines has received a report from Mr. J. Polkinghorne, inspector of mines, respecting the recent discovery of alluvial gold at Goonigal, about 27 miles north…
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Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 4
WHEN the British troops entered Pretoria and seized the Treasury of the Transvaal Government, great surprise was expressed at the smallness of the…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 2
Tuena, Monday.—Work has been commended at the Mount Costigan mine, which has recently been taken over by Dr. Maginn. Several man are employed raising ore, and 12 tons have been forwarded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stop Days in Collieries. London, June 18
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 June 1904 · page 4
Mr. Justice Bigham, in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, has assessed the damages due to the plaintiffs in what is known as the Miners' Stop Days case, in accordance with…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 June 1904 · page 4
The Bell's Creek correspondent of the Braidwood Express writes:—I am pleased to have to report that mining matters on the Creek are progressing very satisfactorily for those immediately interested. Mr…
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The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 29 June 1904 · page 3
A TELEGRAM to the EVENING NEWS from Murrumburrah on Monday says:—Another party is said to have picked up a branch of the Garabaldi line of reef in Mr Lyons’…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Humors of a Flat. the Coal Boy
The Young Chronicle · Saturday 2 July 1904 · page 3
Also in Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate
If you are a flat-dweller and are annoyed by a dirty little boy who takes you up in the lift at the same time he takes the coals, and if you suffer other more or…
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