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

Mining & the mines, 1913

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The Gold Fever

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Monday 27 October 1913 · page 4

Few who have heard or read of the time when the gold fever raged in Victoria, and infected the rest of the world, realise the amount of wealth it has been…

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Strike Extends. Miners and Tram Men Out. Auckland (N.Z.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 5

The wharflabourers on strike were orderly to-day. No trams will be run to-morrow. The employees at the Exhibition Building have ceased working. Justices have been instructed in the…

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Large Theft of Gold. Paris

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 November 1913 · page 2

Gold ingots consigned by the Ottoman Bank, Constantinople, to the Paris branch, via Cologne, disappeared. They were of the value of £200,000…

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Cable News. Mine Magnate Shot

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 2

Sir Lionel Phillips, Bart., who was on Friday at Johannesburg was shot by a disappointed Russian litigant named Nizzum…

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Mine Explosion. Thirty-eight Killed. Grand Junction (Col.), Dec. 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 December 1913 · page 2

An explosion occurred in the Vulcan mine, in the neighbourhood of Newcastle, which resulted in the deaths of 38 out of the 40 men who were below at the time…

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Oil Versus Coal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 December 1913 · page 2

Newcastle, Monday.—Mr. John Brown, who on several occasions has touched upon the advent of oil as a competitor against coal, and the injury likely to be done to Newcastle's foreign…

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