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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1916

103 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 6

Mining Leases

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1916 · page 2

The following mining lease has been ca[?]celled: W. Weatherspoon, 16 acres 3rds 2 perches, parish of Berrico county of Gloucester. It is also…

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South Coast Mines

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 20 May 1916 · page 2

The report of the Mines Department shores that the output from the South Coast mines for the year was 2,261,398 tons, being a reduction of only 101 343…

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Science Notes Carrying Gold at Sea

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 20 May 1916 · page 3

The specie locker of an ocean steamer is a carefully constructed vault, and it located in the stern, immediately over the screw. It has the shape of a half…

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German Woman's False Passport. Came to Great Britain with American. Tale of Tungsten Mine. Prison and Deportation for Both

The Northern Champion · Saturday 20 May 1916 · page 7

An American who declared that he had been to Germany to obtain an optionon a turgsten mine, which was afterwards to be used for the benefit of this country in the…

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Exporting Gold

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 24 May 1916 · page 2

The Chinese "Join" is slow to tumble to the prohibition of the export of gold from the Commonwealth. Two market gardeners, who had…

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Wreckage and Mines

The Northern Champion · Saturday 10 June 1916 · page 6

Many steamers arriving in Danish harbors report that the sea is strewn for miles with evidence of the fearful battle. The wreckage is thick and…

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Melting Indian Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1916 · page 1

According to advices received from Bombay large amounts of sovereigns are being melted down throughout India to make good the falling off in…

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Mines in Artois. Failure of Enemy Attacks on the French

The Northern Champion · Saturday 10 June 1916 · page 7

Mr. H. Warner Allen, special correspondent of the British Press with the French armies, says the principal objectives of the German offensive in Artois during the last week in…

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Fate of the Hampshire. Struck by a Mine. London, June ]1

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 June 1916 · page 2

THE Admiralty has made the following announcement:—"Admiral Sir John Jellicoe reports that it is now established that the cruiser Hampshire struck a mine about 8 o'clock in the evening. Two…

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New Method of Laying Mines

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 1 July 1916 · page 3

Mines have always been laid in the sea by vessels especially equipped for that purpose. The warring powers of Europe have built submarines to kill,…

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Effect of Coal Strikes. £10,000,000 Lost to Australia

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 1 July 1916 · page 4

SPEAKING at Newcastle, Mr. J. B. Suitor, Commeroial Comissioner for New South Wales in the East, commented very plainly on the effect which the coal-miners' strikes have had on trade…

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German Coal for Danish Beer

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 12 July 1916 · page 1

According to a Copenhagen newspaper negotiations are now projecting between the Food Commission appointed by the Danish Government and…

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The Young Gold Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 15 July 1916 · page 7

Beneath a tree, a shady tree With ne'er a thought to harm, The young Gold Land in slumber lay—Her head upon her arm…

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Questions in Parliament. Maitland Coal Strike

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 22 July 1916 · page 4

Replying to Mr. Levy, the Minister for Labor and Industry, Mr. Estell, said that he was having inquiries made into the reports of a strike at…

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Quest for Gold. Romance of the Sea. Searching for the General Grant

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 22 July 1916 · page 2

The return to New Zealand of Captain P. V. Calling and his dare-devil companions in the little cutter Enterprise (14-h.p.) marks the closing…

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Miners for the Front

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1916 · page 1

At the national conference of delegation to the Miners Federation in London it was decided to recommend that effects should be made at once to…

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"Old Gold and Silver War Fund." Fight! Work!! Give!!!

The Northern Champion · Saturday 29 July 1916 · page 3

Can we do enough for those men who are doing all they can for us?— they are giving their lives for the country. The very least that we can do is…

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Buried Gold. Story of Two Scotchmen How They Became Wealthy

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1916 · page 3

The discovery in a hollow [?]og at Billabong Creek, near Berrigan, a few days ago of a quantity of jewellery the proceeds of a robbery at…

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The Eugowra Gold Robbery. Did the £10,000 Go to Scotland?

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 29 July 1916 · page 7

The discovery in a hollow log at Billabong Creek, near Berrigan, a few days ago, of a quantity of jewellery, the proceeds of robbery some years…

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Mining on the Nambucca. Warden's Clerk Wanted

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 4

At Monday's meeting of the Macksville Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Mc Kay drew attention to the necessity of having a Warden's Clerk stationed…

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