New Guinea Head-hunters. Mysterious Disappearance of an Expedition in Search of Gold PAPER V.
Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 26 August 1905 · page 3
Up to this point we had no time to [?]mine the contents of the canoe The fate of our party was pretty certain. We discovered one of our new…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 August 1905 · page 3
A petition regarding the administration of the State coal mines has come before the New Zealand Parliament from residents of Seddonville, Mokihinui, and surrounding…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 August 1905 · page 2
THE news that the miners at Pelaw-Main and Hobburn, who have been out of work for some months, have commenced work again under a temporary agreement, pending the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pelaw-main Miners. Colliery Again Idle. a Difference About Machines. Kurri Kurri
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 August 1905 · page 5
Polaw-main miners did not resume work this morning as expected, Further trouble has arisen in connection with boring the machines. The proprietors desire the men to…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 August 1905 · page 5
Excitement has been caused on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange by the discovery that the popular Le Comic mine field in Madagascar has been largely salted…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 August 1905 · page 7
During the past few days there has been some excitement in Parliament and elsewhere over the reported endeavour of a German syndicate so purchase 15 square miles of the Whitworth coal…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 10
A nugget weighing 94oz. 2dwt. was found at the Dee rush on Friday by John Townsend. The nugget is very pure, and is worth about £400…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 13
During the past few days there has been some excitement in Parliament and [?]sewhere over the reported endeavour of a German syndicate of purchase 15 square miles of the Whitworth coal…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 13
The news that the miners at Pelaw-Main and Hebburn, who have been out of work for some months, have commenced work again under a temporary agreement, pending the…
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The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 2
Official information was received in Newcastle on Saturday morning last from the South Maitland District, to the effect that the Hebburo miners had, by a large…
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Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 3
A large fire was built, at which we [?] our clothes, and dined off a fine [?] wallaby shot a few yards from the [?] With all my comrades’…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 September 1905 · page 2
"My first introduction to gold digging." writers Mr. William Jolly, late one of H.M.'s Inspectors of Schools in Scotland in this month's "Good Words" was in the…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 September 1905 · page 4
The return furnished by the Under-Secretary of Mines shows that the gold yield recorded for the month of August is 26,473 ounces crude, equal to 20,4559 ounces fine, valued at…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1905 · page 3
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury
The August gold yield in West Australia was 174,681 fine o[?] valued at £741,681 This is the highest output for any mouth of the present year…
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Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 9 September 1905 · page 3
After an hour’s raving, I became much calmer, and reason gradually returned I began to realise I had to be up and doing, for it was no use…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stockton Colliery. Portion Closed Down. Work Provided for the Men. Newcastle
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 September 1905 · page 5
All the employees have been withdrawn from Garrett's district in the Stockton Colliery in consequence of the result of an inspection made last week by the Government…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 September 1905 · page 2
For considerations of safety, work has been abandoned, at any rate for a time in that part of the ocean workings of the Stockton Colliery, in which up to last…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 September 1905 · page 5
Quite a boom was recently created at Jonamesburg and elsewhere by the announcement of phenomenal gold finds in the French stand of Madagasear, and a party of…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 September 1905 · page 2
Mr. Rason, the Premier of West Australia, received a telegram on Monday from Southern Cross informing him thus a splendid gold-bearing reef had been found fifty miles south-east of Southern Cross, and…
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