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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1907

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Mining

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 November 1907 · page 2

Mr. Ashcroft, representing s Sydney mining syndicate, arrived by the steamer Pyrmont on Friday and next morning, accompanied by Me[?] Becke and Sheldon…

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Gloucester District Mines

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 9 November 1907 · page 6

In our last issue we referred to the increased activity in mining matters in the Gloucester district; and there are indications that this activity is going…

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Mining

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 November 1907 · page 2

Mr. Ashcroft, representing a Sydney mining syndicate,—arrived by the steamer Pyrmont on Friday, and next morning, accompanied by Messrs. Becke and Sheldon,…

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Coal Strike! Almost Certain. Latest From the Mines

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 13 November 1907 · page 3

The mining situation in Newcastle and South Maitland coalfield districts is now extremely acute, and a general strike of miners appears inevitable…

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The Latest Gold Mining

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 16 November 1907 · page 7

Amongst the strangest developments of modern gold mining is the return to primitive methods in its most advanced practice. Early man…

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The Miners' Strike. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Saturday 16 November 1907 · page 14

The colliery owners met at Newcastle yesterday to discuss the situation in regard to the strike. At the conclusion of the meeting the…

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Cablegrams. LONDON, Wednesday. Scarcity of Gold

Macleay Argus · Saturday 16 November 1907 · page 14

Although twenty million dollars worth of gold has reached New York from abroad, the currency stringency is still most acute…

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Coal Seized for Railways

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 20 November 1907 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners during the week have seized about 1500 tons of coal on te line consigned from colliery to colliery, and this, together…

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Coal Cargoes Re-sold at High Prices

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 20 November 1907 · page 2

The coal in several sailing vessels partly loaded has been sold for inter-State markets at prices ranging up to £3 per ton. The steamer Waddon,…

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The Coal Strike

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 21 November 1907 · page 4

THE Premier in his efforts to bring about a settlement of the Coal Strike has now addressed a letter to tho heads of the Colliery Proprietors' Association and the Minor's…

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The Coal Strike

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 4
Also in The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer

It is almost impossible, by the use of words, to convey any adequate idea of the incalculable injury that is being wrought by the strike of the coalminers. To say that ships…

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Coal Strike Settlement

Macleay Argus · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 10

The proposals propounded by Premier Wade in connection with the settlement of the coal strike have been unanimously endorsed by the…

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The Gloucester District Mines

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 5

The geology of the Craven Creek gold Mine. The Commonwealth. In dealing with the mines of this district an absence of definite…

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Coal Strike Settlement. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 11

The coal strike has been settled upon terms proposed by the Premier and work is to be resumed forthwith. The details yet in dispute…

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The Miners' Strike. to the Editor of the M. R. TIMES

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 8

SIR,--In last Saturday's Daily Telegraph is published a tabulated statement of the average wages earned by the miners at the Newcastle collieries for some months past, and it is, to say the least, a…

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A Lucky Find. Rabbit Leads to Good Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 8

Mr. Harry Hocking, who has been working tor some time on the old Blue reef, near the head of M'Guigan's lead, on the Tichbourne-road, made a…

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The Miners Strike. to the Editor of the M. R. TIMES

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 3

SIR,--I read with considerable amusement a letter in your last Saturday issue signed "Fairplay," and I wish to flatly contradict said letter oil the subject of miners"…

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Sailors' Terrible Experience. Five Months on an Island. Nothing to Eat But Tortoises. Disastrous Voyage of a Coal Ship

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 8

The captain and eight of the survivors of the barque Alexandria, bound from Australia to Panama, have been landed at Guayaquil (Ecuador). They…

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The Cangal Mine

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 December 1907 · page 3

Clarence [?] says the continued improvement in the prospects of the [?]ton copper mine, consiquent on the yellow are bodies opening up…

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