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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1913

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Explosion in a Mine. Thirty Lives Lost Property Wrecked Driving Into a Gas Pocket

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1913 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon an explosion of gas wrecked the mine property of the Philadelphia and Reading Mining Company Pottsville. Of 36…

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Northern Miners' Unrest. Sydney

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 8 August 1913 · page 4

An application has been made to the Industrial Court to have set aside the writ of Injunction issued in June last against three members of…

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Miser's Million. Copyright. A Great North Country and Mine Romance. BART. 5

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 8 August 1913 · page 7

Another [?] Nancy ? and his voice hardened [?] face set hard. "Yes, Hugh another man," she said lowly, her eyes falling before…

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Colliery Disaster

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 13 August 1913 · page 4

Further news regarding tho disaster at Cadder colliery, Makis Valley, Glasgow, indicate that the outbreak of fire was due to the fusing of an…

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Miser's Million. Copyright. A Great North Country Mill and Mine Romance. &c. &c. PART 6. Chapter Vii. a Rat in a Trap

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 15 August 1913 · page 7

After a brief visit to the engine house the four men went to the pit, got into the cage, and were slowly dropped into the blackness; and as…

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Miser's Million. Copyright. A Great North Country Mill and Mine Romance. PART 7. Chapter Viii. the Underground Prisoner

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 7

Three days had passed since the [?]ody of that unknown man, so foully and singularly done to death, had been found lying at the bottom of…

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Gold Light

The Northern Champion · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 2

Professor Charles Dussaud, a French savant, gave in London n demonstration of his important invention, light without heat. This cold light, as he calls it,…

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Local and General MINING

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1913 · page 2

The Boranel Syndicate are actively engaged in mining operations at the Boranel Mine the other side of Rawdon Vale. Mr. Uren is the manager of…

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Gold Near Dorrigo

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 3

The following reference is made in the "Coff's Harbor Advocate" to the scene of the recent gold discovery near Ashton, on the Eastern Dorrigo :…

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Miser's Million. Copyright. A Great North Country Mill and Mine Romance. PART 8

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 7

"L'ave it to me, sir ! [?]ave it to me !" Sloan cried, glancing inside the pocket-book and finding it [?]ed gold and Bank of England…

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Medical Triumphs. Fluid to Prevent Explosions in Coal Mines

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 30 August 1913 · page 2

The very latest boons in science have been described by their discoverers at the great gathering of 3,000 savants from Great Britain and…

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Rand Miners Strike

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 3 September 1913 · page 5

At a mass meeting of the Rand miners it was declared that victimisation was rampant One speaker said that a general strike was necessary…

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Voices of Gold

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 September 1913 · page 17

Mme. Melba, who celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of her first appearance at Covent Garden on May 24th, has made a fortune of £500,000…

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Miser's Million. Copyright. A Great North Country Mill and Mine Romance. PART 9. CHAPTER X. the Woman in the Dark

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 5 September 1913 · page 7

Without more ado or talk in any way, Nathan Catherwood had left Merehurs, that very evening, quitting the Hall within an hour of his…

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Miser's Million. Copyright. A Great North Country Mill and Mine Romance. PART 10

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 12 September 1913 · page 7

When between one and two and twenty, Sol had set his fancy on and his cap at a certain bonnie lass who worked in the cotton mills at…

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[?]ight. a Miser's Million. a Great North Country Mill and Mine Romance. PART 11

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 19 September 1913 · page 7

"Mr. Catherwood, you are a man in a million, if I may say so," the elder man remarked suavely. "You are young, very able, I thin, have…

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Coal Mining in China

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1913 · page 2

Coal mines in Chungking are abundant, and as much of the coat is very near the surface, it is easily worked. The methods employed, however, are…

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A Hoard of Gold

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1913 · page 6

ACCORDING to news from Paris a board of gold has been discovered in the house of Mile. Legros, on old lady aged 73, who has just committed suicide at Longeville, in the…

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Misser's Million a Great North Country Mill and Mine Romance. PA.. 1.2

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 26 September 1913 · page 7

If "Owd Soi" had made him [?] notorious for his lack of giving the crowd evidently were of the opinion that his kin[?] that prove a more…

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How Pil Beats Coal. Thousands of Pounds Can Be Saved by Liners Every Voyage

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 September 1913 · page 2

Twenty years ago the business expert would have laughed at the suggestion of oil being a rival of coal. Yet what was not then…

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