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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1895

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Fairy Gold Chapter Xxxii

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 6 June 1895 · page 4

The dull presentiment of a boding trouble that has suddenly fallen upon Yolande hangs about her and follows her every step of the way home to the…

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Coal-mining Notes. the Helensburgh Trouble

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 11 June 1895 · page 2

On Friday last the miners' representatives had an interview with the manager of the above colliery with the object of coming to a satisfactory conclusion on the…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter Xxxiii

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 11 June 1895 · page 4

"Things might have been worse, bad as they, are," Mrs. Sarjent is saying in those self-satisfied tones of hers, as Yolande softly enters the room. " It's a…

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South Bulli Colliery

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 13 June 1895 · page 2

At the Bulli Police Court yesterday (before Mr. M'Farlane, P.M., and Messrs. Wynn and Hicks, Js.P.) the South Bulli colliery (Mr. J. C. Jones,…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter XXXIII—(Continued)

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 13 June 1895 · page 4

"What on earth are you talking about, aunt Sarjent ?" she demands with frigid contempt. "I have a husband, I am happy to say"—this with…

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Coal-mining Notes

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 15 June 1895 · page 2

The Corrimal colliery has been working well recently, to-day making the twelfth successive day. For the fortnightly pay due to-day the men have seven and a half…

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South Bulli Colliery. a Test Case

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 15 June 1895 · page 2

At the Bulli Police Court on Wednesday (before Mr. MacFarlane, P.M., and Messrs Wynn and Hicks, Js.P.) Mr. J. C. Jones, manager of the South Bulli Coal Company,…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter XXXIII—(Continued.)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 15 June 1895 · page 4

"No, no—of course not!" his mother says angrily. "You needn't take me up so short, Wilmot ! Of course we would never let our own kith and kin…

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Fairy Gold Chapter XXXIII—(Continued.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 18 June 1895 · page 4

"Nonsense!" Lady Norn, says, and says it with startling sharpness and imperiousness, in reply to Mr. Carter's deferential murmur. "You want…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter Xxxiv

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1895 · page 4

Lady Nora has thrown off her odalisque dress, pulled off her turban and pearls and false plaits, and, wrapped in her wadded silk dressing-gown, is lying…

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Coal-mining Notes

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1895 · page 2

"Fairplay" writes:—"On Friday night last the Kembla miners were surprised to hear the pit whistle blow three times at about 7 o'clock. The agreement between…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter XXXIV.—(Continued.)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1895 · page 4

"The sudden loss of position and fortune will of course mako a very great difference in my circumstances," Yolande Bays steadily, 'but makes none in…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter Xxxv

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 25 June 1895 · page 4

Severely elegant in appearance in her costume of plain rich black silk and lace perfect in fit and style—and her bonnet of crimson tulle, mademoiselle sits…

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Coal Mines Regulation Bill

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1895 · page 2

In the course of the Ministerial Statement on Tuesday eight, Mr. Reid said:—I now wish to allude to a measure which is in a peculiar stage upon our business…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter XXXV.—(Continued.)

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1895 · page 4

"Your ladyship is going to reward him very fully, I trust, for all his waiting and enduring and trusting?" mademoiselle says mockingly. " That was one…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter Xxxvi

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 29 June 1895 · page 4

"I feel," Miss Glover says to herself, as she goes softly upstairs, " exactly like the virtuous character in the play. I am going about adjusting wrongs and…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter XXXVI.—(Continued.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 2 July 1895 · page 4

"I hope I shall not live to suffer all that," she remarks. "You may," Lady Pentreath says gravely. "And, when one cornea to the…

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Address by Mr. George Henderson. to the Miners of Illawarra

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 2 July 1895 · page 2

At a recent meeting of miners Mr. George Henderson, of Woonona, miners' general secretary, delivered this following address:—…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter Xxxvii

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 4 July 1895 · page 4

Early on the following afternoon Lady Pentreath's carriage draws up before the Baltimore Hotel, and the boy-in-buttons runs out, and the commissionnaire opens…

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Coal Trade Notes

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1895 · page 2

The shipments of coal from this district during the month of June amounted to 45,221 tons, of which 31,965 tons was sent from Ports Kembla and Bollambi and…

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