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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1910

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Coal Strike. the End in View. Sydney

Nambucca News · Friday 11 February 1910 · page 5

It is understood that immediately after the adjournment of the Northern Wages Board, Mr. Charlton, Labor member for Newcastle,…

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End of Coal Strike in View

Macleay Argus · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 11

The miners at Newcastle will probably return to work on Monday week. Mr. Charlton M.L.A., represented the Colliery Employees at the…

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Coal Strike Practically at an End. Sydney, Thursday night

Macleay Argus · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 11

The Miners' Delegate Board met at Wollongong to-day and decided that a ballot shall be taken tomorrow on the question as to whether…

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Coal Strike. Neaping the End

Nambucca News · Friday 18 February 1910 · page 5

The ballot taken by the Southern miners in respect to whether they should return to work resulted as follows: -- For work, 1135; Against work, 656…

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Gold From Sea Water: New Process

Macleay Argus · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 4

Vast quantities of gold-bearing sand are said to exist in Southern California, New Mexico, and Arizona, as well as in sea-beaches and sea-water, but…

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Farming and Mining Inventions

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 23 February 1910 · page 3

Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys of 163 King Street Sydney, and 9 Queen Street Melbourne, report that the following applications for…

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Coal Strike

Nambucca News · Friday 25 February 1910 · page 6

Free laborers and unionists are now working side by side on the Sydney wharves, as the employers refuse to dismiss the men who came…

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Trouble at South Clifton Mine Sydney, Thursday night

Macleay Argus · Friday 25 February 1910 · page 7

The two non-unionist miners still continue to work at the South Clifton Mine. One of the men complained to the police that he had been assaulted in…

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Farming and Mining Inventions

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 3

Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys of 163 King Street Sydney, and 9 Queen Street Melbourne, report that the following applications for…

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Mining Scrip Stolen. Value About £2000

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 4

The police have been informed of a robbery of mining scrip, the property of Australian companies, and have warned the Stock Exchange. The…

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The Mine Master's Heir (All Rights Reserved.) the Real John Smith. Part 4

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 7

Glancing from one to the other, those present were struck by the likeness between the two men. The, younger man had the same massive…

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Worlds Gold Output. Transvall Contributes a Third. the Australian Decline. More. Whiter Upon. the Rand

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 4

Speaking at the annual meeting of the Johannesburg Chamber of Mines, the President, Mr. J. W. S. Langer-man (representative of Mr. J. B…

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Trouble with the Coal Lumpers. (By Wire.) Sydney, Wednesday night

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 14

The basket trouble has cropped up again between the stevedores and the coal lumpers and disaffection is evident everywhere amongst the…

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Farming and mining Inventions

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1910 · page 5

Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys of 163 King Street Sydney, and 9 Queen Street Melbourne, report that the following applications for…

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The Mine Master's Heir the Real John Smith. (All Rights Reserved.) PART 5

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 9 March 1910 · page 7

A couple of hours later as Betty crossed the hall she saw that some luggage was being brought in, and John Smith came towards her…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 March 1910 · page 11

William T. Walters and Arnold Yates, both married men, were killed by a fall of earth whilst working in a stope at the 1200 feet level in the…

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Farming and Mining Inventions

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 6

Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys of 163 King Street Sydney, and 9 Queen Street Melbourne, report that the following applications for…

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The Mine Master's Heir the Real John Smith. (All Rights Reserved.) PART 6

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 7

Jack did not reply, and followed Betty, into the house. But he did: not find her; she bad taken refuge in her own room, where she sat…

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Aftermath of the Coal Strike

Macleay Argus · Friday 18 March 1910 · page 11

Thomas Frith, the last of the thirteen miners' delegates who was fined £100 in connection with the recent strike, was taken, to prison…

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End of the Coal Strike. a Million Lost in Wages

Macleay Argus · Friday 18 March 1910 · page 11

LAST Saturday we received a wire stating that the miners had caved in and would go back to work oh the Monday on the old terms. The…

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