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

Mining & the mines, 1907

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Blayney Copper Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 June 1907 · page 2

Blayney, Monday.—Last Wednesday pumping from the main shaft of the Blayney copper mine was resumed. Recently the water was found to be still heavily…

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Coal Lumpers' Strike

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 4

A mass meeting in sympathy with the [?]l-lumpers was held under the auspices of the International Socialist League on Tuesday night last…

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Coal in an [?]

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 4

It can scarcely be said that there has ever been a "favoured nation" in the matter of coal; for of all nature's distributed materials coal is…

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The Coal-lumpers' Dispute

Goulburn Herald · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 2

AN acute stage has been reached in the long-standing dispute between the union coal-lumpers of Sydney and the Stevedores' Association. As matters now stand, it can only…

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Bredbo Copper, Silver, and Lead Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 4

Development work is proceeding satisfactory at the above mine. The main lode at the 53ft level is being driven north and south in payable sulphide ore. About 200 yards north of the main shaft an…

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The Idaho Murder. — Miners' Officials' Defence. London, June 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 6

The defence in the ease of Tom Moyer (president), William Haywood (secretary), and Pettibone, another official of the Western Federation of Minors at Boise, Idaho, on a charge of…

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The Mining Act. New Regulations Issued

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 3

The Mining Act, passed last session, and the regulations made under it, published in Wednesday's Gazette, will come into operation on July 15…

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Budgets That Taxed Everybody When the Wearing of a Gold Watch Cost 10s a Year

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 2

THE Britisher is the most cheerful taxpayer in the world so long as he believes he is getting good value for his money. All the same, he is not nearly so badly fleeced as…

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Rand Troubles. Mines Closing Down

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 1 July 1907 · page 2

London, Friday, —[?] Johannesburg correspondent reports that the principal [?] and other business houses on the Rand are retrenching,…

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The Mining Act. New Regulations

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 1 July 1907 · page 3

The customary regulations, for the working of the recently passed Mining Act, have been gazetted, and are, therefore, in force. They are very numerous,…

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Mining at Frogmore

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1907 · page 2

Operations have been commenced by Mr Francis Drake at both the Parent Mine and the Pride of Frogmore Copper Mine. The former has…

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Local and General Mining at Frogmore

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 2 July 1907 · page 2

Operations have been commenced by Mr. Francis Drake at both the Parent Mine and the Pride of Frogmore Copper Mine. The former has been equpped…

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Mining Warden's Court

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 2

A sitting of the above was held at the Court House yesterday before Mr. Maitland, Mining Warden. Authority Cancelled…

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A Mining Swindle

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 4

ALEXANDER FRASER was yesterday sentenced to five years' penal servitude for having falsely pretended to William. Hessel Linsley that Fraser had purchased certain land known as…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday. Coal Lumpers' Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 July 1907 · page 1

The demand for increased pay was further discussed at the Coal Lumpers' Conference to-day. Mr. McDermott, a coal lumpers' delegate, said that as night work…

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A Gold Mine Waiting for Somebody

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 5

The most crying need of to-day is a substitute, for Para rubber. It is certain to be discovered sooner or later. Celluloid and oxidised linseed oil are…

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Mining

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 2

Operations at the old Nanina field are going ahead in a satisfactory manner. Mr. Buck, who represents big Sydney interests, has had his shaft…

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Mining at Frogmore

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 3

Operations have been commenced by Mr. Francis Drake at both the Parent Mine and the Pride of Frogmore Copper Mine The former has been…

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The Big Hole Mining Swindle. Fraser Sentenced to Five Years' Penal Servitude

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 3

At the Darlinghurst Sessions on Tuesday Judge Murray pawed sentence on Alexander Fraser. The prisoner bad pleaded guilty to…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. Coal Lumpers' Conference

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 July 1907 · page 6

At the Coal Lumpers' Conference to-day the chairman read the employers' answer to the delegates' requests. The Steam Collier Owners and Coal Stevedores'…

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