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

Mining & the mines, 1905

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The Latest. SYDNEY, Tuesday. Newcastle Mining Cases

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 February 1905 · page 2

In the case of William Evans, wheeler, the jury disagreed, and were discharged this morning. In the case of Robert Cameron, wheeler at Dudley Colliery, the Crown did…

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The Mining Industry

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1905 · page 3

THD record of the past year's operations shows that the value of the mineral output for 1904 was £6,402,558, or an increase of £286,304 on that of the previous year. The…

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The Truth About Chinese Labor Why the Mine Owners Could Not Get Kaffirs. South African Economics. Badly Paid and Unwilling Labor Enforced by Taxation. (By London Daily Chronicle.)

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 15 February 1905 · page 4

THE first contention made by the Randlords in their arguments in favour of imported Ariatic tabor is that there is a shortage in the supply of kaffic labour. The…

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Poetry. Silver and Gold

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 February 1905 · page 1

Farewell, my Little ewer theart, Now fare you well and free; I claim from you so promise, You claim no rows from me…

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Won Her Weight in Gold

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 17 February 1905 · page 3

A romantic Story--which is none the less true because it sounds like an incident from a sensational novel--is being told of a Texas girl. who recently won a fortune…

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Won Her Weight in Gold

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 3

A romantic story -- which is none the less true because it sounds like an incident from a sensational novel -- is being told of a Texas girl, who recently won a fortune…

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Miners Idle

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—The Wallarah mine at Catherine Hill Bay is idle to-day, owing to the men refusing to work until the management…

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The Garribaldi Mines

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 2

THE mining industry in and around the Wombat district appears to be carried on with systematic energy, and there are at the present moment…

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Murderer's Letter. Let Her Be Mine in Death. If Not in Life

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 4

Remarkable details of the courtship of Beatrice Fielding and John Fritchley, and of the tragedy which ended their lives on 14th December, were told to the…

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Undiscovered Coal

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 3

Professor W. Boyd Dawking recently gave evidence before the Coal Commission as to the existence of workable coal in south-eastern England. His investigations…

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Undiscovered Coal

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 4 March 1905 · page 3

Professor W. Boyd Dawkins recently gave evidence before the Coal Commission as to the existence of workable coal in south-eastern England. His investigations…

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Fatal Mining Accident. Death of John Coulton

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 3

The Gundagai Times says:—Shortly after we went to press last issue the unfortunate man, John Coulton, expired in the local hospital from injuries…

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Peelwood Mines

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 10 March 1905 · page 2

A prominont resident of Peelwood, has received a communication from Mr. Gray, the representative of block 14 Propriety Co., Broken Hill, which…

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Mining at Dalton

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 March 1905 · page 4

Our correspondent writes:—After 15 years' slumber things in the mining line are beginning to wake up ill Dalton. Some little time ago a small company was formed to test a…

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Russia. Miners Attack Troops. London, March 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 March 1905 · page 2

Six shots were fired at the Governor of Kutais, in the Caucasus, but not one struck him. It is expected that the Russian Government will send a military expedition to the…

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The Colliery Explosion in Wales

Goulburn Herald · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 3

The explosion in the Cambrian Collieries, South Wales, caused a fire. Nine men were killed, and seventeen imprisoned. Their recovery alive is practically impossible…

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Dalton Mining Revival

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 2

After a (apse of quite 15 years, it is reported that a mining revival has taken place at Dalton on a small scale. Some little time ago (the ‘Penny Post’ reports)…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion. London, March 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 March 1905 · page 2

A terrible explosion occurred in the Cambrian collieries, Llwynpia, Wales, yesterday, during the changing of the shifts. The underground roads were crowded with men at the time. The…

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Removing Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 4

A large number of Russian mines have been removed from the neighbourhood of Port Arthur…

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British Coal Fields

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 2

FROM time to time alarm has been caused in Great Britain by the exercise of scientific prophecy on the exhaustion of British coal fields…

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