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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1919

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Gems and Gold Galore. War Services of India's Rajas

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 July 1919 · page 7

Before the war people used to marvel at the wealth of India's Rajas and the magnificence of their Courts. During the war these Rajas have…

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Overseas News Coal Strike Settled

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 30 July 1919 · page 2

It is officially anounced that the British coal dispute has been settled. The conference of parties' concerned in the dispute resulted in an…

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Why Bankers Want the Gold Basis

The Northern Champion · Saturday 2 August 1919 · page 7

IF the reader's mind has never been confused by reading the definitions of money given in Economic text-books, he will find the answer to the question: "what is…

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Celebrities of an Old Mining Town

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 2 August 1919 · page 5

A CONTRIBUTOR gives the " Grenfell Record" an interesting account of some of the celebrities that graced that field away back in the days…

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Miners' Strike

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1919 · page 3

Apart from Yorkshire a serious situation has arisen in all mines, owing to the surface men demanding an increase…

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British Industrial Trouble. Yorkshire Miners. Favor Continuing Strike. Angry Scenes in London. London

Macleay Argus · Thursday 7 August 1919 · page 5

A mass meeting of Yorkshire minors was strongly in favor of continuing the strike. Six hundred drivers and firemen struck and held up 10,000 holiday…

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Mine Manager's Escapes

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 August 1919 · page 4

MR. CHARLES EASDOWN, manager of the Milburn creek copper mine, Mt. McDonald, had a miraculous escape from death the other day. In company with Mr. W. J. Gash…

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Lenine, Master of Bolshevism, Is Gold, Intellectual, and Fearless

The Northern Champion · Saturday 9 August 1919 · page 7

"Is Lenin a genius," asks a correspondent of the London "Times," who Booms to have enjoyed unusual opportunities to find out what manner of man the leader of the…

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News of the World. Yorkshire Miners. Decide to Resume Work. London

Macleay Argus · Thursday 14 August 1919 · page 5

The Council of the Yorkshire Miners' Association has decided to recommend the resumption of work…

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Mining Lease Void

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 20 August 1919 · page 2

It is Intended to void the gold mining lease of 4 acres, parish of Boranel, county of Gloucester in the name of J. I. Cotterill which will be open to be…

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Gold-eating Ducks

Macleay Argus · Thursday 21 August 1919 · page 4

"X.P." writes in Smith's Weekly": Re strange finds in beasts. In the paunch of a heifer recently slaughtered at Dunedin (New Zealand) was a…

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Adventures of a Missionary in an Alaskan Gold-camp

The Northern Champion · Saturday 23 August 1919 · page 7

KLONDIKE was the objective of the first gold-rush to Alaska in 1897 and 1898. In 1899 another "strike" was announced, this time at Nome, on the bleak, wind-swept coast…

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Gold Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1919 · page 2

The Warden's Balliff, Sergent Bath, paid a visit to the newly discover gold reef on the Mummel River, discovered by Mr. Owen Tout. The…

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Wonders of "White Coal." the World's Work Done by Water

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 30 August 1919 · page 7

Britain owes her industrial position to her supply of good black coal; she may lose it by failing to take advantage of her "white coal."…

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Freight of Hospital Coal

Macleay Argus · Thursday 4 September 1919 · page 4

Th Secretary of Railways advises Mr. H. D. Morton, M.L.A., that no reduction in the rate, 137 per ton, for conveyance of coal from Newcastle to…

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Floating Mine Off Queensland. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Thursday 4 September 1919 · page 5

A floating mine was discovered off the Queensland coast and taken to Cairns…

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Valla Gold Mine

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 5 September 1919 · page 8

Thirty years ago a local selector happened across a peculiar piece of stone near the coast in the vicinity of Deep Greek. The sample was…

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Natonalisaton of Mines. Motion Carried by Trades Union Congress

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 12 September 1919 · page 4

The Glasgow Congress overwhelmingly adopted a motion for nationalisation of mines. The Glasgow Nationalisation…

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Rich Gold Find

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 13 September 1919 · page 3

The discovery of a big rich lode iu the Celebration lease on Hampton Plains promises to make a great improvement in the mining outlook…

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Gilt and Gold

The Northern Champion · Saturday 13 September 1919 · page 7

Have you ever noticed how it sometimes happens that the strong, interesting personality who held you enthralled upon your first meeting ofttimes proves positively dull upon…

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