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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1908

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Goldfield Disturbance. Sydney

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 16 April 1908 · page 4

A serious disturbance took place at the Oaks gold rush, Queensland, 500 men participating, many being injured…

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Gold Bond Tobacco

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 2 May 1908 · page 14

Lovers of good tobacco will find the famous "Gold Bond" and "Edgeworth" brands shown in all the attractive styles, by the Sydney representatives,…

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Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 4

Our Copeland correspondent informs us that work has been commenced at the Prince Charlie Mine at that place, and it is expected that a…

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The World's Richest Gold Field

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 3

Twenty-five years ago the gold fields of the Transvaal, which now produce more than one-fourth of the World's gold supplies, did not exist…

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New Mining Boundary. Boundaries of the Copeland Mining Division of the Hunter and Macleay Mining District. Description

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 8

Parts of the counties of Gloucester and Hawes Commencing at the junction of the Manning River with the Barnard River and bounded thence…

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The Magic of Coal Tar. What an Inventor Old

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 9

There is coal tar in everything [?] cat, more or less. More than half our drugs are the product of coal tar. All our dress goods are eyed by coal tar…

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Scottish Miners Federation

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 14 May 1908 · page 7

The Scottish Miners Federation numbering 80,000 has decided to join the Labor Party…

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A Pauper's Bag of Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 10

After twenty years of parish relief, in the course of which he had received over £200 from the guardians, a man named Whtehead, aged 90, residing at…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Newcastle Coal Commission

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 21 May 1908 · page 4

Judge Heydon has formally resigned from the Presidency of the Newcastle Coal Commission…

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Gold in a Potato Patch

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 3

At Ironbark Gully, near Tarnagulla, Victoria, Walter Grey, whilst digging up his potato patch, disturbed in the subsoil on the cap of an…

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District Mining Craven Creek

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 7

Mr. R. Bartlett reports:—I am on at the approach of the low level; have had the truck rails laid down, and it is only a matter of shovel in, as it is loose detritus from the higher…

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State Coal Mine. South Australia's Purchase

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 9

Owing to the increased price of coal the Government of South Australia has been for some time negotiating for the purchase of coal-mining land…

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A Goldfield the Colonial Office Did Not Wish Discovered

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 3

"Excuse this being written in pencil, as there is no ink in this city of Ophir." The Government geological…

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Manchester Gold Mine

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 6 June 1908 · page 5

Mr. F. M. Brown manager reports that a gold lease of six acres was surveyed last week by Mr. Thomas for the company, which contained…

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Mining. COPELAND

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 6 June 1908 · page 5

It was understood that work at the Prince Charlie Mine would be resumed some time back, but up to the present no earnest endeavour has been made in…

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How Long Will Coal Last ?

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 6 June 1908 · page 9

The world still, has a considerable supply of coal. Germany is credited with 280,000,000,000 tons,' sufficient to last 2,000 years at the present rate…

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Fire in a Mine

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 11 June 1908 · page 4

During a fire in a mine in Nebrasks a rescue party entered the workings to rescue three miners. It is believed that twenty rescuers perished…

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Wallarah Colliery Cavil. Trouble with the Miners

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1908 · page 7

Owing to a dispute regarding the drawing of the quarterly cavil at the Wallarah colliery, in the Lake Macquarie district, there is a possibility of…

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The Proprietary Mine Fire. No Further Anxiety

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1908 · page 4

There was no new developments in connection with Block 12 fire at the Proprietary mine at Broken-Hill on Saturday. The work of increasing the…

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Colliery Engine Drivers Dispute

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 25 June 1908 · page 4

The secretary of the Colliery Engine Drivers' Association receiver a letter from the Northern Proprietors, stating that they did not consider the…

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