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

Mining & the mines, 1915

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Coal-mining Dispute

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 April 1915 · page 2

London, April 22.—The Miners' Conference passed a resolution asking the Government to summon a national conference. As an outcome of the meeting between Mr…

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Big Gold Yield. 1890 Ounces From 600 TONS

Young Witness · Tuesday 27 April 1915 · page 2

Six hundred tons of quartz from the A Company's mine at Gaffney's Creek (Victoria) yielded 1890 oze of gold…

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Miners' Conference. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 April 1915 · page 4

The miners' conference has adjourned till Thursday. USE OF GASES. PARIS, Tuesday…

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Mining Revival. Good Gold Find at Newbridge

Young Witness · Friday 30 April 1915 · page 2

A reef, which promises well, has been discovered, in white quartz, about 1[?] miles from Newbridge, by Messrs. Bullock of Blayney. The quartz…

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A Jeweller Charged. to Recover Gold Bangle

The Young Chronicle · Friday 30 April 1915 · page 2

A case was hoard at Goulburn last week in which chas. V. Pigott, a [?] with [?] bangle, valued at £6 6s, which…

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Accident in a Mine. Fifty Men Thrown Out of Work

Young Witness · Friday 7 May 1915 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.—A fall occurred in the roof of the Sneddon colliery, Wallsend, yesterday. Water found its way into the p[?], flooding the…

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Coal and Coke

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 May 1915 · page 6

London, May 6.—From May 13 the export of coke and coal, except to British possessions and allied countries, is prohibited. The Daily Telegraph says Mr. Asquith has…

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Miners' Federation. Prima Facie Case for Advance. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 May 1915 · page 4

The Premier (Mr. Asquith) has informed the Miners' Federation that they have wade out a prima facie case for an advance in wages. Unless the existing committees determined the…

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Kept in "Solitary." Mine British Officers, London May. 7

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 11 May 1915 · page 2

The treatment of British officers in Germany sioce the policy of "reprisain" was adopted by Germany was again referred to in the House…

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Mining Claim Abandoned. MR. G. Barnes Surrenders to Shire Council. Council Wish to Retain Dam for P.W.P.

Young Witness · Tuesday 11 May 1915 · page 1

At Saturday's meeting of the Burrangong Shire Council, Mr. George Barnes, of Youns, wrote:— "I am the holder of a water right…

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Exports and Gold Storage (W. H. P. Cherry, Acting Officer-in-Charge, Exports and Imports branch, in the Agricultural Gazette.) Rabbits and Hares

Young Witness · Tuesday 18 May 1915 · page 4

The quantities of rabbits packed at the respective country and city freezing works during the year ended 31st December, 1914, totalled 610,581 cases,…

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Italy's Task. Austrian Land Mines. Rome

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 May 1915 · page 2

King Victor Emanuel has supreme command of the land forces, and has gone to the front. Italy has declared a blockade of the Austrian and Albanian coasts…

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The Mine Peril

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 June 1915 · page 2

London, Juno 2.—The Russian barque Montrosa, bound from Hull to Nova Scotia, struck a mine in the North Sea. The crew were saved. The trawler Condor struck a mine near…

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Struck a Mine. French Minelayer Sunk

Young Witness · Tuesday 8 June 1915 · page 3

PARIS, Monday—The French minelayer Casablanca struck a mine in the Aegean sea. The captain and 64 of the crew were picked up by a British…

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Coal Output

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 June 1915 · page 2

The Coal Committee reports that 191,170 miners joined the army up to the end of February. The shortage of production owing to the war was 12,000,000 tons per year. If there was…

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Miners and War Bonus

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 June 1915 · page 2

The ballot of the Miners' Federation to refer the question of the war bonus to settlement by the Premier resulted in the following vote:—For the proposal, 438,000; against, 279,000…

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Welsh Miners

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 June 1915 · page 6

London, June 10.—Despite an increase of 17½ per cent., the South Wales miners persist in their notices expiring at the end of June. It is their intention to compel the coalowners to…

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Miners' Average Week

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 June 1915 · page 2

Mr. Runciman, speaking in the House of Commons, said that miners wore working at an average of 5.64 days weekly…

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Finding Gold With the Divining Rod

The Young Chronicle · Friday 18 June 1915 · page 1

Those in mining circles (say Wellington "Times") should be interested to learn Mr. E. Pocknall, divining rod expert, who has for a…

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Gold near Bathurst at the King's Plains Mine

Young Witness · Tuesday 29 June 1915 · page 1

A new and valuable discovery of a splendid gold-bearing lode has been made at the King's Plains mine, about 17 miles west from Bathurst. The…

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