New Guinea Head-hunters. Mysterious Disappearance of an Expedition in Search of Gold. Paper Xviii
Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 2 December 1905 · page 4
We all gorged ourselves pretty well at the expense of Wallaka. I say gorged, because it is customary among the natives of New Guinea to never…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Novel Persuader. Moving Pictures Used by Mining Promoter to Help Sell Stock
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 December 1905 · page 4
Just as the phonograph, beginning as an entertaining toy, has become an important factor in business, the moving picture is now being adapted to…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 December 1905 · page 8
The Glen Rock Mining Company is opening up a new mine near the Glen Rock Lagoon, on the Merewether Estate. The Company has a lease of 185 acres, and the seam to be worked…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Woman's Experiences in the Klondyke. Helped Her Husband Search for Gold
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 December 1905 · page 7
A very readable account of a woman's experiences in the Klondyke in contributed to the "New York Sunday Magazine," by Florence Brown, The woman joined her husband…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 December 1905 · page 3
This morning the Arbitration court announced its award in the dispute between the Sydney Coal Lumpers Union, and the Sydney Steam Collier, owners and Ceal…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 December 1905 · page 3
A young man named Henry Connelley, employed as a wheeler at the East Greta Colliery, met with the terrible fatal accident in No. 1 tunnel this afternoon. He as wheeling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Lumpers
The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 December 1905 · page 2
THE demands of the coal lumpers, who already receive for unskilled labor about twice as much as others, have been rejected by the Arbitration Court…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 December 1905 · page 3
The return furnished by the Under-Secretary of Mines shows that the golf yield recorded for the month of November is 3,913 ounces crude, equal to 28,868 ounces fine,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal-Lumpers' Dispute. an Important Award. Profits of Employers
The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 December 1905 · page 4
THE Sydney coal-lumpers have failed in the demands which they, as a union, made upon the Steam Collier Owners and Coal Stevedores' Association. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining. Timor Silver Lode. Inspector Slee's Report
The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 December 1905 · page 2
IN reference to the Timor silver lode, which has been attracting so much attention of late, it may be interesting here to quote the report to the Mines…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 December 1905 · page 10
The remarkable feature in the Lithgow coal contract was that whereas the Coal Association was willing to supply some 40,000 tons at a price…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1905 · page 9
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury
The gold yield of Western Australia for November amounted to 163,245oz., and the total for the past eleven months to 1,793,219oz. The total for the whole of 1904 was 1,983,230…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1905 · page 5
A young men named Henry Connelley, employed as a wheeler at the East Greta Colliery, met with a terrible fatal accident in No. 1 tunnel on Thursday. He was wheeling…
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Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 9 December 1905 · page 4
The alligator took his prey into a dirty mangrove swamp, but how to get at him was another matter. We paddled several times along the fringe…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Commissioners. the Coal Contracts. Sydney
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 December 1905 · page 5
Giving evidence to-day before the Railway Administration Commission, John Britty North, proprietor of the Irondale Colliery, deposed that in April last he told Mr. Kirk…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 December 1905 · page 3
The Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association intend applying to the Arbitration Court this week to fix as early a early a date as possible for the hearing of the long-standing dispute with the…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 December 1905 · page 2
In the Arbitration Court on Wednesday, Mr. E. P. Simpson (Messrs. Minter, Simpson, and Company), on behalf of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association,…
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The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 2
THE evidence taken by the Coal Commission is bewildering. The Railway Commissioners, who take something like 200,000 tons a year of western…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Abermain Colliery
Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 2
This colliery continues to produce a large amount of coal weekly. Everything is working satisfactory—men and machinery. We believe some new…
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