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Mining & the mines, 1905

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New Guinea Head-hunters. Mysterious Disappearance of an Expedition in Search of Gold

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 22 July 1905 · page 3

In next issue of the EXPRESS will be commenced “The New Guinea Head-hunters: Mysterious disappearance of an expedition in search of Gold,” an…

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Pelaw-main Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 July 1905 · page 3

A new phase of the differences between the Colliery Employees' Federation, northern district, and J. and W. Brown, proprietors of the Pelaw-Main Colliery, has arisen. It…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 July 1905 · page 3

Bulk tests of 200 tons of Queensland anthracite from the Dawson and M'Kenzie coalfields, Queensland, made by H.M.S. Psycho, are said to have demonstrated that the…

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Colliery Labour Troubles Free-Labour Train Stoned

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 July 1905 · page 2

Sixteen free-laborers, with their swags, left Pelaw Main colliery on Friday night for Newcastle, and were escorted to the Newcastle, and…

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The Maitland Coalmines. Pelaw-main. Miners' Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 July 1905 · page 2

The Pelaw-Main miners met at the Empire Hall on Monday morning. Mr. J. Gregory, chairman of the lodge, presided. The delegate, Mr. J. Dyson, read and explained…

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District News. Scone.—(Continued) Mining—the New Find

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 26 July 1905 · page 4

Hitherto the Upper Hunter gold field can hardly be taken seriously. The country is too broken and full of faults, so that the gold has generally…

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Broken Hill. Big Creep in a Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 July 1905 · page 3

A big creep occurred in the Central Mine, Broken Hill, this morning. No one was hurt, but the mishap has grave consequences for the mine. All underground work has…

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Another Colliery on the Eve of Starting. Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Co

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 2

The Wickham and Bnlloek Island Coal Co., who have 1700 acres of coal land between Abermain, and Aberdare Colleries, intend to work…

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The Mount Pleasant Copper Mine Exploited. Robbery of Mining Tools

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 2

Last Saturday night a robbery of mining tools took place at the Mount Pleasant Copper Mine, in the Pokolbin district, about six miles from…

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Miners' Accident Fund

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 16

The fourth annual statement of the New South Wales Miners' Accident Relief Board for the year ended December 31, 1904, has been issued…

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Development of Mining

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 2

GRADUALLY, but surely, the peaceful agricultural area of Cessnock is being invaded with mining ventures; and if the…

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Mining Disputes. the Hebburn Matter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 5

In the Arbitration Court yesterday, the matter of the Collieries Employers' Federation v. the Australain Agricultural Co., was mentioned. Mr. Watt appeared for the claimant union, and Mr. Campbell…

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Recovery of the Mining Tools. Found in a Creek

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 2

On Thursday morning the police made further search for the missing tools. Senior - Constable Dolman, Constable Leslie, and the black tracker…

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THE New Guinea Head-hunters. Mysterious Disappearance of an Expedition in Search of Gold. PAPER I.

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 3

When I left my happy New Zealand home, in the year 1879, to witness the opening of the Exhibtion in Sydney, I little, thought it would be…

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Central Mine Creep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 July 1905 · page 2

Up to the present nothing definite has been ascertained regarding the extent of the collapse in the Central Mine, Broken Hill. It is certain, however, no further movement has occurred, and…

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Pelaw-main Colliery. Appeal to the Full Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 August 1905 · page 6

The Full Court, consisting of the Chief Justice Sir Frederick Darley, Justice Cohen, and Justice Pring, arrived at a decision on Holiday in the ex parte application by John ami William Brown,…

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A Mine Disaster

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 August 1905 · page 5

During mine practice at Sandham-roads, near Helsingfors, in the Gulf of Finland, a boat struck a submarine mine and was blown to atoms. Seven of the boat's crew were…

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Pelaw-main. Important Miners' Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 August 1905 · page 4

A largely attended meeting of the Pelaw-main miners, under the presidency of Mr. J. Gregory, took place in the Empire Hotel last evening, to discuss the position the men had been placed…

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The Pelaw-Main Miners

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 11

The Full Court, consisting of the Chief Justice Sir Frederick Darley, Cohen, and Justice Pring, arrived at a decision on Monday in the ex parte application by John and William Brown…

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Pelaw Main Miners Beaten. 90 Per Cent. of Strikes End in Disaster to Workmen

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 2

In the ex-parte application by John and William Brown, proprietors of the Pelaw Main Colliery, to make absolute rule nisi for a writ of…

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