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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1914

208 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 5 of 11

Miners' Afternoon Shift. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 4

An award of the northern miners' wages board, on the afternoon shift question, met with strong disapproval and a crisis ir feared…

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Mining Notices

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 4

Rents are due and owing on the following leases, and if not paid within 30 days from 13th May, such leases may be cancelled:—…

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Miners' Thirsts. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 26 May 1914 · page 2

Mr Dooley, M.L.A., speaking at Lithgow, characterised the statement regarding miners' thirsts there as a deliberate untruth…

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Buried Gold. Victims of a Legend

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 3
Also in Forbes Times

An extraordinary story of buried treasure, which recalls some of the delightful works of George A. Birmingham, has just reached Prance from the…

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Buried Gold. Victims of a Legend

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 30 May 1914 · page 8

An extraordinary story of buried treasure, which recalls some of the delightful works of George A. Birmingham, has just reached France from the…

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Buried Gold. Victims of a Legend

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 3 June 1914 · page 10

An extraordinary story of buried treasure, which recalls some of the delightful works of George A. Birmingham, has just reached Prance from the…

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Broken Hill Mines. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 5 June 1914 · page 4

Probably a Royal Commission of inquiry into the condition of the mines at Broken Hill will extend over several months…

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Bottom at Last. Junction Mine Work

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 9 June 1914 · page 2

The shaft being worked by the Junction Gold Mining Syndicate at Forbes has now reached the rock formation at a depth of 180 feet…

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Junction Gold Mine. a Deserving Venture

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 12 June 1914 · page 5

The shareholders in the Junction Gold Mining Syndicate decided at a meeting during the week to at once continue sinking, with a view of…

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Wander Notes. Mining

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 12 June 1914 · page 10

Mining is a very fascinating subject and should be touched almost as warily as a hot poker. Yet to traverse the region which lies between Cadia,…

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A Mining Matter

Forbes Times · Friday 12 June 1914 · page 4

In the Warden's Court on Tuesday last before Mr. Holcombe, Mining Warden, H. K. Bors and Otto Bors applied for an injunction…

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Fifield Mining Leases. Injunction Granted. Forbes Warden's Decision

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 12 June 1914 · page 3

At the Forbes Warden's Court on Tuesday before Mr H. Holcombe, Warden, ah application was heard for an injunction by Otto Bors, against…

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Turning Lead Into Gold

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 7

Professor F. Soddy, F.R.S., declares that it is only a matter of application to change lead into gold. He says that, while now we can only work…

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Coal Miners Strike. Sydney

Forbes Times · Tuesday 16 June 1914 · page 2

The Coal Cliff miners struck work yesterday because they were not allowed to hold a meeting at the mine[?]…

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Broken Hill Mines. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 16 June 1914 · page 3

The first sitting of the Royal Commission inquiring into labor conditions in the Broken Hill mines, was held yesterday. It was contended…

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The Gold Diggers

Western Champion · Thursday 18 June 1914 · page 35

Like a page of romance we read of it now, The days when the nuggets were found,…

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New Mining Bill. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 19 June 1914 · page 4

The Minister for Mines is preparing a bill to provide for greater safety in coal mines. No more mineral conditional purchases will be issued…

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JAPAN. "For that's the way they do in Japan, And I find it an excellent plan; In Europe, I'm told, they marry for gold, But it's not the way in Japan." —"The Geisha."

Forbes Times · Friday 19 June 1914 · page 2

Mr. J. B. Suttor has just concluded ten years' service in Japan as the Commercial Commissioner for New South Wales in the East. The State has…

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Coal Deposits in Spitzbergen

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 20 June 1914 · page 6

Only a few years ago Spitzbergen was an unknown land, the resort of only whalers, fishermen and bandits. Valuable and interesting information…

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