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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1913

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The Collieries' Strike. Sydney

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 11 April 1913 · page 4

The proposal of the Minister for Labor for the settlement of the Southern Coal Strike has been rejected by the employers…

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Cobar Copper Mines

Macleay Argus · Friday 18 April 1913 · page 14

Owing to the lack of fuel through the shortage of railway trucks the Cobar copper mines may be closed down. If that occurs 2000 men will…

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A Palace with Golden Windows. Strange Uses for Gold

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 4

Curious and interesting facts regarding India's passion for gold, and the strange uses to which the natives put the precious metal, are contained in a…

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Mining Ballot

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 May 1913 · page 11

At Newcastle the recent voting for a special count in the Northern Districts mining dispute resulted as follows:-- Yes 3939, No 1916…

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Gold Beneath the Sea

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 31 May 1913 · page 4

Captain Heater, of the Victoria (B.C.) fishing schooner Jessie, and his crew are the hopeful owners of a gold mine over which 40 fathoms…

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Mr. Stamper Mining Mad. (Complete in Three ports.) .PART 8

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 31 May 1913 · page 11

Wonderful people these speculating gentlemen, allied surely with the evil one himself. It is a saying that Old Nick looks after his…

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German Warship Damaged. State Coal Mine Strike. the Recent Mount Lyell Disaster

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 June 1913 · page 11

The German warship Coomorant arrived in Sydney yesterday from the South Sea Islands. On the voyage the vessel struck a reef and There is another strike of the miners working at the Victorian State coal mine owing to one of the head officials reprimanding a miner The body of the last victim of the Mount Lyell disaster has been discovered in a good state of preservation…

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Baby Mine

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 June 1913 · page 16

Baby mine, with blue eyes tender, And a brow so smooth and white, And a soul that e'en is whiter Than a ray of purest light…

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The World's Production of Gold

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 June 1913 · page 2

[?]or to the discovery of [?]rica, the existing stock of gold [?] silver money in the world is [?]timated by William Jacob, and…

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The Briton Aboard. Among New Men Strange Faces, Other Mines— Tennyson. the Home-coming of an Eastern Bride

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1913 · page 2

For two years a fairy palace of white and gold has been growing slowly under the workmen's hands Now it is finished, and the marriage…

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Cablegrams. LONDON, Wednesday. South African Mining Trouble

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 July 1913 · page 11

The natives at a village on the Main Reef Mine, Johannesburg, stoned the police. The latter drove the natives back and they…

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Miser's Million. Copyright. A Great North Country Mill and Mine Romance. CHAPTER I. Old Sol and Nancy

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 11 July 1913 · page 7

It was a morning in late Autumn and the soft sunshine and sweet odours of the countryside were bathing and swathing the trees, lawn and…

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Cobar Copper and Gold. Field Report

The Northern Champion · Saturday 12 July 1913 · page 7

The report on the Cobar Copper and Gold Field, Part, I., by E.C. Andrews, B.A., F.G.S., Geological Surveyor, has just been issued under the…

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Getting Meats From Overseas. Gold -Storage Process Enables World to Live

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 12 July 1913 · page 2

It is little more than fifty years since meat killed abroad was first brought into England. In those days the annual…

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Miser's Million. Copyright. A Great North Country Mill and Mine Romance. PART 2. Chapter Ii. the Wanderers' Return

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 18 July 1913 · page 7

The Boar's Head Inn is an ancient and well-known hostel that stands at the junction of three great roads. That to the north leads almost in a…

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A South African Mine

Macleay Argus · Friday 25 July 1913 · page 17

The daily average number of natives employed on the Premier Diamond Mine during 1912 was 13,363, the total wages of which amounted to £51,321…

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A Great North Country Mill and Mine Romance. PART 3

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 25 July 1913 · page 7

It was nearly an hour after this when Hugh Standish marched slowly along the fine avenue leading to the Hall. Catherwood was off to town…

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Mining Troubles

Macleay Argus · Friday 1 August 1913 · page 11

The outlook in connection with the mining crisis on the Rand is more hopeful, owing to the Government's firmness. Martial Law was…

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Miser's Million. Copyright. A Great North Country Mill and Mine Romance. PART 4

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 1 August 1913 · page 7

"Splendid !" Hugh cried, with laugh "And all those qualities you, of course, are endowed with eh? Well, the Lord has certainly…

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From the Gold Coast

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 6 August 1913 · page 2

Mr. Francis P. Bray is a mining export. There is nothing strange in that Mining experts are by no means rare in Australia, and, although…

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