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Mining & the mines, 1873

7 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Gold Absorption

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 10 May 1873 · page 1

WHAT becomes of the 228,000,000 dollars of the precious metals annually produced in the world, is a question easy to ask and not difficult to answer. Of our gold and silver product,…

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CORRESPONDENCE. The Gold-fields at Nowendoc (To the Editor of the Manning River News.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 10 May 1873 · page 2

SIR,—I have noticed in late papers some very hopeful accounts of these diggings. Everything favorable seems to find its way into print, and all the lucky finds are duly recorded. I suppose…

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The Coal Famine in London

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 31 May 1873 · page 4

A “ COMMISSIONER” of the Daily Telegraph writes: — It is almost impossible to exaggerate the amount of real misery and privation which…

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Nowendoc Gold Fields. (From an Occasional Correspondent.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 31 May 1873 · page 2

EVERYTHING seems at a standstill at present, but some improvement is expected before long, and there are those who think things will be as flourishing as before ; for although all the River…

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Coal Beds of the World

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 June 1873 · page 4

THE English are in a fright for fear of the exhaustion of their coal beds. The short supply and high price of the article have occasioned their agitation. Professor A[?]stead endeavors…

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The Coal Question in England

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 June 1873 · page 1

THE Melbourne Argus correspondent in London writes :—The select committee on coal, appointed on the 4th of March, has vigorously entered upon its duties, and has already…

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The High Price of Coal

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 6 September 1873 · page 2

AN important and forcible illustration of the bad effects to the British iron and steel trades of the high price of coal and labor was recently furnished at the annual general meeting of the…

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