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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

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Aberdare (Caledonian) Colliery

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 2

The Aberdare Colliery is progressing with its output. We explained in a recent issue that the surface works were not yet complete, but every work…

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Mining Notes. WICKHAM & Bullock Island Coal Co., Ltd

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 2

This company intend to push along the mine without delay. Already [?] large amount of surface work has been done in anticipation of buildings and…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 2

Withers and party at Nuggety Gully, near Rockley, have won 350 ounces of gold during the past fortnight. Up to date, 12,656,593 fine ounces of gold…

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

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 4

The reason Wallak[?] did not exact tribute from Nooka was that he was a bad pay. Nooka was a long way in arrears. Years before Wullaka put in…

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Railway Coal Inquiry. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 December 1905 · page 5

Mr. Knox, one of the commissioners who is inquiring into certain railway matters, has made it quite apparent during the sittings of the Royal…

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Australia's Coal Fields. Immense Mineral Wealih. Professor David's Estimate

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 December 1905 · page 3

PROFESSOR T. W. E. DAVID, in a paper which ha read before the Sydney Engineering Society on Wednesday evening, dealing with the coalfields of…

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Railway Coal Inquiry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 December 1905 · page 5

The two principal witnesses in the railway inquiry yesterday were Messrs. Charles Stanger and E. A. Loughrey, outdoor locomotive superintendents, called by Mr. Kirkcaldie. Mr…

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Mining Matters. I

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 December 1905 · page 6

The Wollongong Agricultural Association has decided to offer prizes of £5 and £2 for the best plan of a prospective colliery on a scale of four chains to the inch,…

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Railway Coal Inquiry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 December 1905 · page 5

The statements of the three Railway Commissioners, Messrs. Oliver, Kirkealdie, and Fehon, were made yesterday before the Commission which is investigatingthe coal…

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The Colliery Dispute. Employees Federation v. Brows. Verdict Against the Union. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 5

The High Court to-day delivered its reserved judgment in the case of the Colliery Employees Federation of the northern district versus John Brown and William Brown…

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The Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 7

The various collieries situated close to the town are being rapidly developed. At the Aberdare Colliery—that is the Caledonian Coalmining Company's pit—there are fully…

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The Railway Coal Inquiry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 3

The Royal Commission on railway affairs session was marked an Friday by a spirited denial by the secretary of the Lithgow Association that any money of bribe had been…

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After Dinner. a Mining Experience

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 6

You have heard of the conflicting evidence for and against an after-dinner nap. Some say: "Take it; that is, if you get the chance." Others say: "Avoid…

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

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 4

My action relieved the situation The men soon recovered. Hunda was pretty bad. He received a great shock—an imaginary, shock—that…

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We Wish our Farming, Grazing, Mining, and all other Kindred Industries a Prosperous New Year. His First Christmas Tree

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 3

I dess 'ey's not a boy in town 'At's luckier 'an me, Tause mamma she jus' let me have My firstsus Trismus tree,…

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Coal Shipments

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 December 1905 · page 3

Shipments of coal aggregating 21,000 I tons, are leaving within a fow days for Eastern and American ports…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 December 1905 · page 5

A seam of coal has been discovered in connection with the Wolgan shale mine, in live Lithgow district. The seam was met with in the prospecting shaft on the right…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 December 1905 · page 3

During the past year the dividends raid by Bendigo (Vic.) mines totalled £173,281, being an excess of dividends of £54,719. In 1904 the dividends…

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The Very Latest. London, Tuesday afternoon. Mexican Mining Disaster

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 December 1905 · page 5

Thirty miners were suffocated in a mine at Santa Gertrudos, Mexico…

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THE C. S. A. MINES. Rich Developments

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 December 1905 · page 4

The continuous interest displayed in mining circles, in connection with the rich discoveries of the above mines in the Cobar district, shows the…

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