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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1914

38 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 2

Miser's Million. Copyright. A Great North Country Mill and Mine Romance. PART 26. Chapter Xxix the Dead Man's Scheme

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 7

The Irishman thanked the grateful young fellow; the promised order on his bankers was made out and handed to Sloan by Hugh, while those in…

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Rays Explode Mine. Magic that Might Destroy a Whole Fleet

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 10 January 1914 · page 5

All possible secrecy has been preserved by the Admiralty with regard to the experiment upon the Terpsichore. It is, of course, of the utmost…

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Miser's Million. Copyright. A Great North Country Mill and Mine Romance. &c &c. PART 27

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 7

"N[?]ney Pem[?]ton is not your wife yet, Natt[?] was the dry hard retort, and I fancy that spring will never arrive which will…

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"Firedamp Whistle." a Boon to Miners

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 17 January 1914 · page 5

The German Emperor, when inaugurating the new Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Exper mental ' Therapy at . Dahlem, was shown an ingenious device for…

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Miser's Million. Copyright. A Great North Country MHI and Mine Romance. PART 28

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 7

''What I tell you is the absolute truth, Miss Pemberton. I was Nat's Wife--I am the women he decoyed from a rich and confiding husband:--…

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Hunting for Gold with a Magnet

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 5

Electro-magnetism is to be employed in a novel manner to recover gold from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It is seriously announced that an expedition…

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Coal Strike Settled

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 2

Tho strike at tho State coal mine in Victoria is settled, and work was resumed on Wednesday morning…

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Petrified Bones in a Mine

The Northern Champion · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 7

Miners at the Usworth Colliery, County Durham, have made a gruesome find. While hewing in the Maudlin seam they broke through into a…

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Millions Made Out of £640. Romance of a Famous Gold Mine

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 2

About forty years ago a Scotsman, Donald Gordon by name, was endeavouring to make a fortune by cattle-grazing on 640 acres in…

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Gold Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 14 March 1914 · page 2

The old Bowman mine has now been floated into a small prospecting company (Sydney capital) to work that property. It is called the Mount…

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A Mining Transaction

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 4

The only case in the Bowraville Small Debts Court was one in which Michael Laverty appeared against Robert McKay, senr., claiming £14…

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Australian Coal

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 2

Considerable surprise is being evinced because Australian warships do not take kindly to Australian coal. It makes too much smoke, too much…

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Washing in Gold

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 5

A French journalist who had speculated in railway shares won 200,000ft as the result of a lucky venture. Drawing it in gold, he proceeded to an…

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Gold Find. Report From Bathurst

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 22 April 1914 · page 3

Major Butler and party, who are in possession of a 10 acre gold mining lease near Lagoon, at a spot from which phenomenal gold was taken…

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Gold Thieves at Work. Revolver Shots Exchanged

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1914 · page 2

At Melbourne on Monday evening, John Irvine, manager of the Burnt Greek mine, in the Maryobrough district, had an exciting adventure with…

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From Mine Boy to Wealth. Stoory of Hugh D. MclNTOSH

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 2

Mr. Hugh D. McIntosh, governing director of Rickards' Tivoli Theatres, will leave for America on Saturday in search of new turns and new…

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The Pathos of an old Gold Field

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 9

" Yarram" writes :--I think there is no sadder sight than an old, deserted gold-field. Especially to is it to one who has been there before, and has seen…

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The Northern Collieries

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 6 June 1914 · page 4

NINE colleries in the Maitland district were closed on Tuesday owing to the afternoon shift trouble, and 400 men have been thrown out of work. The strikers declare their determination to froce the…

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Disaster in Canada. Coal Gas Explosion Hundreds Entombed Vancouver

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 24 June 1914 · page 2

It is reported that 200 persons have been killed through an explosion of gas in a coal mine in the Fernie district…

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Local and General. Gold Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 11 July 1914 · page 2

Gold mining is not yet dead in Gloucester. It will by seen by an advertisement in our business columns that a company has been formed to…

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