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Mining & the mines, 1887

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Pure Gold! Chapter Xxxv. in an Italian Church

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1887 · page 4

THE dusk came on apace. The great vaulted roof was already wrapped in gloom, grey shadows stole amongst pointed arches and fluted pillars, and played tricks with the dying…

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Coal Mining in England

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 2 August 1887 · page 2

The Herald's London letter, of date June 24, contains amongst other items, the following:— During this week the House of Commons has been engaged in discussing some useful measures…

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Mount Keira Colliery

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 2 August 1887 · page 2

The quarterly inspection of the Osborne Wallsend Colliery was made by the undersigned on July 26th and 27th, 1887. The report is as follows:—…

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The Bulli Colliery. Work Resumed in the Cassy Section

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 2 August 1887 · page 2

On the 23rd of March, the terrible disaster by which eighty-one human beings were buried into eternity in a moment, occurred in the Bulli colliery, and not until the middle of last week were…

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Pure Gold! Chapter XXXV.—(Continued.) in an Italian Church

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 2 August 1887 · page 4

He rose and left the church, and went back to the hotel. There was a perfect rage of hatred and indignation within him. He suffered intensely, but his suffering was of a…

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Pure Gold! Chapter Xxxvi. an Altered Man

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 4 August 1887 · page 4

ANN EYRE lay on her deathbed The rain came down softly and steadily upon the oldfashioned garden, the October leaves dropped in wet, brown showers upon the bosom of the…

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South Bulli Colliery

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 6 August 1887 · page 2

The South Bulli Company, whose operations are carried on at Russell Vale, is making rapid strides towards becoming a supplier in the coal market of the colony. As referred to now and…

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The Western District Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 6 August 1887 · page 4

An aggregate meeting of the Western District miners was held in the Lithgow School of Arts on Wednesday. The business was to consider the case of the locked out miners at…

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Pure Gold! Chapter XXXVI.—(Continued.) an Altered Man

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 6 August 1887 · page 4

All tins time, under a heap of letters, chiefly bills and circulars, which had arrival for him at his old rooms in Charges Street, there lay a certain letter which had arrived there for him…

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Pure Gold! Chapter XXXVII.—(Continued.) Ffnella Sees an Opening

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 9 August 1887 · page 4

"We! we! us!" come, I like that!" cried Oswald sneeringly, dropping his novel, face downwards, upon the floor, and twisting himself round upon his sofa, into a sitting…

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Pure Gold! Chapter XXXVII.—(Continued.) Ffnella Sees an Opening

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 11 August 1887 · page 4

But what was she to do? That was the puzzle! She could neither sow nor scrub, nor teach children, nor give lessons in music or French…

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Pure Gold! Chapter XXXVIII.—(Continued.) the Return of the Penitents

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 13 August 1887 · page 4

On the last day of December, the ground had been too hard to hunt; people had trotted anxiously to the meet, and then had trotted home again, filled with disgust and…

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Pure Gold! Chapter Xxxix. a Wedding Far Away

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 16 August 1887 · page 4

UP and down the long length of the sunny esplanade crept a lumbering, crazy-wheeled invalid's chair. The little town of Vieres lay white and still under the shelter of the…

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How to Make Gassy Mines Safe. (To the Editor of the Illawarra Mercury.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 16 August 1887 · page 2

SIR,—In Saturday's issue I notice that Mr. Loveday asks you to correct an advertisement about his public address shortly to be delivered in Wollongong, limiting the putting of questions…

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Bulli Colliery Disaster Fund

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 18 August 1887 · page 2

A meeting of the executive committee of the Bulli Colliery Disaster Fund was (says the Herald) held at the Town Hall on Monday afternoon, under the presidency of the Mayor. There were also…

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Pure Gold! Chapter, XXXIX.—Continued.] a Wedding Far Away

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 18 August 1887 · page 4

"Don't be absurd, Rita; one can't have everything. I consider her very sensible." Rita was silent. Her natural instinct—the instinct of innocent girlhood, which was not as…

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Pure Gold! Chapter XL.—(Continued). Domestic Reforms at Croxton

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 20 August 1887 · page 4

"Unconsciously he had hit home. The secret of her innermost heart had been touched by his unmeaning taunt. She loved Val. That love had never died. Revenge…

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Pure Gold! Chapter Xli. the Meet at Hampstone Green

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 23 August 1887 · page 4

THERE was a great commotion in Foxball Court. Servants rushed hither and thither doors, were bunged; hurrying footsteps pressed along the passages and staircases; messages…

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Pure Gold! Chapter XLI.—(Continued) the Meet at Hampstone Green

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 25 August 1887 · page 4

"She is like you in her ways, too," he went on; "so clever and original; so full of life and fun." Rita's travels in Italy must decidedly have…

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Pure Gold! Chapter XLII.—(Continued). Maria Speaks Her Mind

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1887 · page 4

Maria was a pretty, fresh-complexioned country girl, with a good heart and an impulsive nature. She was giddy and careless about her work, certainly, but under a mistress who had…

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