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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1910

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Farming and Mining Inventions

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 8

Messrs. Griffiths and Hassel, patent attorneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney. and 4 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for…

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Farming and Mining Inventions

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 8 March 1910 · page 4

Messrs. Griffiths and Hassel, patent attorneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, and 4 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for…

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Mine Development in Borneo, China, and Japan

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 8 March 1910 · page 3

"It is deplorable, but it is nevertheless a fact, that Australia has already lost a very large portion of the valuable coal trade with the Far East,…

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Colliery Screenings. the Powlett Coal Field. Remarkable Mining Development

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 11 March 1910 · page 15

It is not generally know—though there have been occasional hints and reminders from time to time—to what an extent the Powlett coal field…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 11 March 1910 · page 11

The Wages Board sitting in Sydney during the week has been hearing the evidence of Mr. A. E. O. Sellers. On Monday the Board will inspect…

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Coal[?] (To [?]

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 11 March 1910 · page 8

Sir,—Referring[?] last issue signed[?] ding coal trans[?] and suggesting[?]…

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Southern Collieries' Wages Board. OVER £42,000 INVOLVED

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 11 March 1910 · page 5

In the course of his evidence before the Southern Collierie Wages Board on Tuesday, Mr. D. A. W. Robertson, manager of the Metropolitan Coal…

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Coal Transit. (To the Editor)

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 11 March 1910 · page 4

Sir,—Referring to the letter in the last issue of your contemporary signed "Practical," regarding coal transit to Port Kembla, and suggesting a new…

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Coal for 12,000 Years

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 15 March 1910 · page 1

Mr. R. E. Young, Chief Geograp-her her Superintendent of Railway Lands under the Canadian Government, contributes some interesting…

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Lost in a Coal Mine. a Wheller's Experience

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 18 March 1910 · page 5

It is very seldom that anybody gets lost in a coal mine but this happened to a lad named John Kelly in Mt. Keira mine on Monday afternoon. At…

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Wongawilli Mine

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 18 March 1910 · page 4

At the Dapto show there was a very fine exhibit of coal taken from what is known as the. four foot seam in the Wongawilli mine. One block was of…

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Farming and Mining Inventions

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 18 March 1910 · page 2

Messrs. Griffiths and Hassel, patent attorneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, and 4 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for…

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Southern Collieries' Wages Board

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 22 March 1910 · page 2

When the time for the resumption of business by this board arrived yesterday morning it transpired that there was no chairman, and only one of a…

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Colliery Screenings. More About the Powlett Colliery

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 25 March 1910 · page 6

The Railway Commissioners understand it is not the intention of the Mines Department to make a profit out of the supply of coal to the…

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Iilawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 11

During the week, members of the Wages Board have been inspecting the mines, Corrimal, Bulli, and South Clifton having been gone through. The…

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Colliery Screenings. Victoria's New Coalfield

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 18

The fallowing is from on account in the "Mining Standard" of a Ministerial visit :— The first sight of bulk lots of…

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Farming and Mining Inventions

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 2

Messrs. Griffiths and Hassel, patent attorneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, and 4 Queens-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 5 April 1910 · page 2

A special delegate meeting of the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association was held , at Tattersall's Hotel, Wollongong, on Saturday. The…

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Colliery Screenings. Coal-mining in Britain

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 20

The Royal Commission which was appointed in June, 1906, to inquire generally into coal-mining methods in Great Britain, has issued its…

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Superintendent Pountney. His Opinion of the Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 4

Immediately on the conclusion of the presentation to Rev. Futher Walsh on Monday night last, and on the invitation of the rev. gentlemen, a large…

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