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

Mining & the mines, 1910

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 2

A fine ore-dressing mill has been erected at Kyloe Copper Mines. The annual meeting of the Araluen Redbank Cold Dredging Company, No Liability, was…

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The Coal Vend and the Law. Facts Suppressed. by the Leading Newspapers

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 4

ALMOST every day since the coal strike, the HERALD and TELEGRAPH—whose bark is in a small way echoed by the EVENING NEWS and conservative…

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CORRESPONDENCE. We do not necessarily endorse [?] expressed by Correspondents. the Gains of the Coal Strike. To the Editor of the Young Chronicle

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 2

Sir,—Now that the great coal strike is drawing to its inevitable close, some of the Metropolitan papers are trying to count up the losses. Will you let me count up the…

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Coal Coming

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 2

The Government's first shipment of imported coal is due to arrive on January 12th, and four other cargoes are due during the following five or…

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“From Bank to Bank” What It Really Means. Miners’ Main Grievance Explained. Some Striking Contrasts, From Australian Star

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 2

“EIGHT hours from bank to bank.” That is one of the principal claims put forward by the men working in the coal mines of New South Wales. It does not…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 2

Kyloe Copper Mines.—The progress report for the week ended January states:— Stopes yielded 97 tons, assaying 16.3 per cent. Furnace was working three days, and…

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[Reuter's.] London, Tuesday. Twenty Thousand Miners Idle

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 4

Upwards of twenty thousand miners are now idle in "Northumberland and Durham. A MAYOR AND HIS OFFICERS. Of Mayor Gaynor's first list of nine…

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The Coal Strike. Doings of the Week. Friday, December 31

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 2

The [?] Colliery Employees' Association held in a special delegate meeting yesterday. It was recommended that a ballot be taken by the lodges as to…

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Our Local "Gold Mine."

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 2

That is how the Young Co-oporativo Roller Flour Mill has often been described, and the "Millers' Journal," seems to be of the same way of thinking too. In writing of the last…

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Coal Strike. the Alleged Ring

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 5

"The rash statements being made by desperate men involved in the coal srtike are not likely to have much weight with the thinking public," said the Acting Premier…

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Great Strike in England. Sixty Thousand Miners Out. London, Jan. 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 6

Forty thousand miners in Durham and 20,000 in Northumberland are idle owing to a dispute with reference to the shift system. The miners repudiate the conditions which their…

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A Woman's Confession. L.c.c. Gold Stolen. £700 Found in Coal-box

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 12 January 1910 · page 3

During Sunday night (6th January) a hole was knocked in the 18in. brick wall of a "strong room" built in the basement of the London County Council tramway…

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CORRESPONDENCE. We do not necessarily endorse opinions expressed by Correspondents. the Newcastle Miners' Responsibilities. To the Editor of the Young Chronicle

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 12 January 1910 · page 2

Sir,--Seeing that the coal miners of Newcastle are grown men and responsible to their wives and children, to the community, and to their fellow workmen for their own acts and…

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The Coal Strike. Doing of the Week. Friday, January 7

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 2

Mr. Huges addressed a meeting at [?], on the South Coast, yesterday, and had a hostile reception. The meeting was a very disorderly one, and a fight took…

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Kyloe Copper Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 4

The general manager's report for week ending January 8 states:—Smelted 67 tons of ore, producing 10 tons 6cwt. matte, containing to tons 16cwt. copper. A start has been…

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The English Coal Strike. London, Jan. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 5

Delegates, representing 50,000 Durham miners have resolved to ask all miners in the county to cease work immediately until the eight hours' agreement is satisfactorily settled…

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Mining

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 2

At Sapling Point, the Murrumbidgee Lead Syndicate, for which Messrs Johnson and See are managers, has been engaged in developing work for…

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English Coal Famine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 4

The North-eastern Steel Works at Middles borough have been closed owing to the lack of coal and 2000 people are idle in consequence…

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The Coal Strike in England

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 2

London, Saturday Morning.--The North-eastern steel work at Middlesbrough have closed down owing to the lack of coal,…

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Back From Living Tomb. Miners Saved After Week in Burning Mine.. Children Kiss the Feet of Rescue Party. (From An Exchange.)

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 4

AFTER spending a week in a living tomb, and after all hope of rescue had been practically abandoned, 20 miners, unkempt and too weak…

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