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Mining & the mines, 1908

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A Day Reckoning —Or— Better Than Gold. (Copyright.) Part Vi

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1908 · page 3

And with these words Armytage turned on his heel and went back to the house. Entering the office, he took from a…

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Coal Tar -The Most Protean Substance in the World

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 19 September 1908 · page 9

Speaking recently before the Society at Chemical Industry, Mr. H. Schweitzer summarized a number of the products of the coal-tar industry. . Since…

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Discovery of Gold

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 23 September 1908 · page 2

Our Cestoock correspondent refers in his letter in to day's issue to the discovery of gold at Barraba, near the head of Congewai Creek, about 16…

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Killed in a Mine

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 24 September 1908 · page 4

At the Bend and Loch mine, Ballarat, William Mason, manager, and James Colling miner, were killed instantly by a piece of timber falling…

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Newcastle—Tertius. Gloucester District Coal Measures

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 26 September 1908 · page 13

It has been known for a long time that coal exists in the Gloucester district, but owing to its location at a distance from shipping, and the…

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A Day of Reckoning (Copyright.) —Or— Better Than Gold. Part Viii

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 September 1908 · page 3

Lady Olverstone found Mona, in a room that had formerly been her school-room ; now she used it for writing letters or painting. It was…

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A Day Reckoning —Or— Better Than Gold. (Copyright.) Part Ix

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 6

"A month's a long time," she laid, brightly. "Yes, to the young, but it passes quickly when we reach middle life…

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Reminiscences of the Gold-fields. a Clever Bit of Salting

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 2

In forcible, if not elegant language, old Ah Le Ong impressed upon me the necessity of " doing something," the " something " being the making…

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Gloucester Coal Field

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 3

The following is a description of the Stroud and Gloucester coal measures as far as Ward's River, given by Professor David in his Memoirs of the…

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A Day of Reckoning. (Copyright.) —Or— Better Than Gold. Part X.

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 3

She drew herself up proudly. "Then you are mistaken. I came here almost at once, and there isn't a man, woman, or child that can say…

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Discovery of Coal. Boring for Bridges. Along North Coast Rail Way. Gloucester

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 14 October 1908 · page 2

There is great excitement in Gloucester owing to the boring for the foundations of the railway bridges, on - the North Coast railway passing…

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Gloucester Coal

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1908 · page 7

WE have been seriously told by our contemporaries, north and south, that there was intense excitement in Gloucester over the alleged discovery,…

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More Precious Than Gold

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1908 · page 6

Snake venom to found useful in medicine, and has a valued place in several departments of the mechanical arts and sciences…

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A Day of Reckoning or Better Than Gold. (Copyright.) Part Xi

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1908 · page 3

Jabez Armytage nodded in a surly fashion, and Luke seated himself, taking a rapid survey of his companion, he decided not to beat about…

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Hunting for Mines on Etna's Famed Slopes. Scenes in Peasant Life. No Deal in "Duffers." Magnificent Assurance

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1908 · page 12

It was afternoon when I left the Messina-Palermo railway and hired a carriage for Novara, 53 kilometres distant. The afternoon was warm,…

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A Day of Reckoning or Better Than Gold. [Copyright.] Chapter Xxvii. Laura Thinks She Is in Lock

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 6

Next morning Jabez Armytage woke to the fact that he had done foolish thing: when he turned his daughter out of the house. There…

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A Day of Reckoning or Better Than Gold. (Copyright.) Part Xiii

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 6

The next morning Betsy was washing the breakfast things in a listless fashion. Her heart was not in her work, for she was thinking of…

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Broken Hill Miners Ultimatum

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 November 1908 · page 4

The Broken Hill unionists have issued an ultimatum to all non-unionists working on the mines, ordering them to join the union forthwith,…

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In the Roaring Sixties. the Great Rush at Canoona. Being a Reminiscent Yarn of Fifty Years Ago About First Queensland's First Gold-Field

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 12 November 1908 · page 9

"Rush Of Rush [?]as a common enough cry along in the fifties and sixties, and the writer has a personal recollection of many of them—…

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The Brand of eian. (Copyright.) a Vivid Romance of the English Coal Mines, Chapter I. Red Wooer and Brown Hebe

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 3

On a a certain bright though somewhat showery afternoon in spring, in the closing decade of the nineteenth century, a miner was walking along…

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