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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1901

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W. Jno. Baker's Cutlery Trophy Championship Prize, and 10 awarded the Gold Medal, the First Prizes Royal

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 5

The cutlery exhibit of Mr. W. Jno. Baker, in the main pavilion, well deserved the awards as enumerated above these being the latest to a list of some 45 first prizes. The…

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The World's Coal Resources

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 7

The duration of the coal resources of various countries has been calculated by a German statist. In a century or two, he estimates, exhaustion will overtake Durham…

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Modern Ocean Coal Gluttons

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 9

During the last ten yean the race for the transatlantic record has been far more interesting than in any other period, for it has been in this decade that the great…

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The World's Coal Resources

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 2 May 1901 · page 7

The duration of the cool resources of various countries has been calculated by a German statist. In a century or two he estimates, exhaustion will overtake Durham…

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A Mysterious Mine. a Dead Man's Secret

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 10

There is a reef or 1eader somewhere out Broughton way which should handsomely pay the man who finds it relates the Charters Towers Evening…

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Hidden Gold in the Trans-vaal

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 2

We hear of nothing but Kiondyke gold, yet, according to Captain Younghusband, whose new book on South Africa Messrs. Macmilan publish, there is some still in the…

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Hidden Gold in the Transvaal

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 9 May 1901 · page 2

We hear of nothing but Klondyke gold, yet, according to Captain Younghusband, whose new book on South Africa Messrs. Macmillan publish, there is some still in the…

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Australian Coal. a Mountain of Wealth Near Sydney

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 11 May 1901 · page 7

Thirty-five miles from Sydney is a picturesquely situated township whose history is closely identified with that of the coal-mining…

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Australian Coal. a Mountain of Wealth Near Sydney

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 16 May 1901 · page 7

Thirty-five miles from Sydney is a picturesquely situated township whose history is closely identified with that of the coal-mining…

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The Coal Output of Scotland

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 7

The duration of the Scotch output was computed in 1871 as likely to last 820 years, on the assumption that the annual output would not exceed 12,000,000 tons…

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The Coal Output of Scotland

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 23 May 1901 · page 7

The duration of the Scotch output was computed in 1871 as likely to last 820 years, on the assumption that the annual output would not exceed 12,000,000 tons…

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A Mad Rush for Gold

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 23 May 1901 · page 6

According to a correspondent of the London "Daily Mail,", some, extraordinary scenes occurred in the Klondike district, on February 25, when the "Crown claims"…

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A Romance of Coal

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 25 May 1901 · page 4

Joseph Davies, who began life as a sawyer and carpenter, and whose honesty and industry carried him on to wealth as a railway contractor, sank all his money…

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Superstitions of Miners

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 1 June 1901 · page 2

In Surdina is said to be a silver mine of marvellous wealth, but all who enter its depths die by the bite of the Polifuga, the little red death-spider which haunts its rocks…

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Colliery Explosion. Many Lives Lost. London, May 24

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1901 · page 2

An explosion has taken place in a colliery at Ca[?]rphilly, in Glamorganshire, Wales (8 miles from Cardiff), with the result that 150 men were entombed. Intense anxiety…

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Mystery Op a Gold Watch. Just, but Hard

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 1 June 1901 · page 9

At the Bloomsbury county court, before Judge Bacon, a Mrs. Eldridge brought an action against Mr. Arthur Hall, a watchmaker, carrying on business in Camden…

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Mining Disaster at Broken Hill. Six Men Killed. Broken Hill

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1901 · page 2

Since the terrible South mine disaster in July, 1895, by which eight men were killed, nothing has happened locally so immediately calamitious as the shocking fatality which occurred at the same mine…

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Superstitions of Miners

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 6 June 1901 · page 4

In Sardian is said to be a silver mine of marvellous wealth, but all who enter its depths die by the bite of the Pollfuga, the little red deathspider which haunts its rocks…

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Mystery of a Gold Watch. Just, but Hard

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 6 June 1901 · page 2

At the Bloomsbury county court, before Judge Bacon, a Mrs. Eldridge brought an action against Mr. Arthur Hall, a watchmaker, carrying on business in Camden…

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Mad Rush for Gold

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1901 · page 3

Some extraordinary scenes occurred in the Klondike district on February 26, when the Crown claims were thrown open to the public. It was a wild stampede, such as has…

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