Big Gold Shipment. London, August 7
The White Star liner Oceanic, with 15,000,000 dollars in gold, reached Southampton yesterday. In order to outwit the German cruisers she steamed in mid-Atlantic without lights…
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Mining & the mines, 1914
87 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 3 of 5
Who Got the Gold?
Temperance propagandists could easily draw a moral lesson from the happenings [?] an episode which occurred in Yass on Saturday the 8th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floating Mines. Admiralty's Warning. London, Aug. 23
The Admiralty warn neutral shipping that the Germans are continuing to scatter mines indiscriminately which do not conform to the conditions of the Hague Convention, as they do…
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A telegram from Nish states that an Austrian monitor struck a mine near the Danube and was blown up. The crow perished…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Supplies. Washington Aug. 24
The United States Government has allowed the steamer Mazalatan to clear for Guaymas a Mexican port on the Gulf of California…
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The Danish steamer Brentland struck a mine in the North Sea and arrived at Blyth in a damaged condition. A trawler has landed at Hull five of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Danish Steamer Sunk by Mines. London
A mine sank a Danish steamer forty-five miles off the Tyne in the North Sea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Mine Layer Sunk. London, Aug. 31
A British cruiser caught a German trawler flying the Norwegian flag laying mines in the North Sea. The cruiser gave the crew of the German vessel three minutes to escape and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floating Mines British Gunboat Sunk New York, Sept. 4
Floating mines have again been responsible for the loss of a British warship. An important cable was received…
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A German plan would appear to be the capture of British trawlers for use as mine-layers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Where the Mines Come From. London
A British gunboat captured. a trawler with 200 mines aboard. The trawler purported to belong to Grimsby…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest. Colliery Explosion. Miners Entombed. Sydney
A terrific explosion occurred at the Ralphe colliery, Huntley, New Zealand, early this morning, entombing 30 miners. The explosion was hoard by the residents, who rushed to the…
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London, Sept. 11.—In the House of Lords last night Lord Wimbourne, in reply to Lord Camperdown, said that any one caught mine-laying in the open sea would be courtmartialled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Protecting South African Mines. Capetown
Six blocks of gelignite were found in a shaft of the Luipaard Solei mine. The shaft is now guarded, and all German and Austrian minor. have been discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Disaster
Auckland, Saturday.—An explosion occurred at Ralph's coal mine at Huntly while over 50 men were below. Twenty-one miners have been rescued, badly burned. Twelve bodies have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Broken Hill Miners. "We're Not Cattle."
That the Broken Hill miners are independent the police and railway officials of Goulburn would not for a moment deny, for they had this particular phase of their characters fully…
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Milan, Sept. 24.—Advices from Trieste slate that two torpedo-boats attached to the Austrian High Sea Fleet, and an Austrian destroyer struck miles off Dalmatia and sunk. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill Miners
A large contingent of Broken Hill miners passed through Goulburn by a division of the Melbourne express this (Thursday) morning, en route to Sydney. The men literally besieged the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Admiralty Adopts Mine laying Sydney
The Admiralty announces that the German mine-laying methods, combined with the submarine activities make it necessary for the Admiralty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. North Sea Mines London, Oct. 2
The mines with which the North has been strewn by the Germane have claimed another victim. This was the British steamer Selby, 2137 tons…
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