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Mining & the mines, 1906

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Corowa Bowling Club. Gold Medal Championship

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 March 1906 · page 3

Since the opening of the season the above club has considerably increased in membership, and the conveniently-situated green has been almost daily…

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The Elingamite Wreck. Search tor the Gold. The Diver Tells His Story

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 March 1906 · page 4

Full details of the last search for the Elingamite treasure came to hand last week, from New Zealand, by the Union Company's steamer Manuka…

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Gold Mixing Leases

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 2

Applications have been lodged by John Morrissey for seven portions of Quat Quntta of 800 acres each, as gold mining lenses. The situations are…

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Chiltern Mining Reports

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 2

Chiltern Golden Bar—Main shaft timbered up. Cistern and pent house in shaft 30ft. below plat. Small vein reported in E. of shaft. All…

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The World's Gold Out-put. Last Year's Record

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 4

Figures have recently been issued from various gold producing centres throughout the world, giving the values of the output for those districts…

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Glasgow Fire Tragedy. Death-roll Thirty-mine. Lodging-house Panic. Firemen Beaten Back by Frantic Men. Blind Man's Gallant Rescue

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 4

The most disastrous fire experienced in Scotland for half a century occurred yesterday morning at a model lodging-house for men in Watson street, in the…

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Chiltern Miners V. Rutherglen

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 12 March 1906 · page 4

The cricket match, Chiltern Miners v. Rutherglen, was advanced a small stage on Saturday. The Rutherglen team resumed, with Smith not out…

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Cablegrams. (Pee Reuter.) Mine on Fire. 1800 Mex Imprisoned. 700 Feet Below the Surface Cages Destroyed by Explosion. Twelve Hundred Roasted to Death. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 12 March 1906 · page 3

Intelligence has just been received of a terrible mining disaster which took place at 7 o'clock on Saturday morning at Courriers, in France…

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Cablegrams. (Per Reuter.) General Cables. Wages of American Coal Miners. Men's Demands Rejected. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

The miners working in the American anthracite coal mines have demanded a readjustment of wages and that they shall work under better…

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Fearful Calamity in France Mines on Fire. Agonising Scenes. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

An awful calamity has occurred in France, the scene of the disaster being Courrieres, one of the principal mining centres, which contributes one-third of the total coal…

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Cablegrams. Per Reuter. Goal Mine on Fire. Eleven Hundred Deaths. a Frightful Holocaust. Indescribably Awful Scenes. the Work of Rescue. Relief Funds Opened. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

Further details of the calamitous fires in the coal mines at Courrieres, in tho Department of Pas de Calais, France, are reported to-day…

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Coal Mine on Fire. a Frightful Calamity. London

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 2

The town of Courrieres, in the department of Pas de Calais, in France, has been the scene of one of the most terrible colliery disasters recorded for…

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Cablegrams. (Per Reuter.) Coal Mine on Fire. Heartrending Scenes. Hundreds of Corpses Unrecognisable. Mine Surface Resembles a Battlefield. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 2

The scenes at the mouth of the pits of the burning collieries at Courrieres, in France, are terrible. A large number of bodies have…

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Mine Fires at Broken Hill

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 2

The fires which have been raging in the Proprietary mines at Broken Hill for some weeks past are increasing in virulence, and are now reported to be…

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Cablegrams. Per Reuter. South Africa. Rhodesian Diamond Mines. a Grant Challenged. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 2

A large number of Rhodesian settlers have petitioned Lord Selborne, the High Commissioner for South Africa, against the Chartered and De Beers…

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Recovery of the Dead. Westphalian Miners Requisitioned. with Great Success. Special Apparatus Used. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 2

At the instance of the Emperor William, of Germany a number of miners from the collieries of Westphalia have been sent to Courrieres to take part…

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Cablegrams. Coal Mine on Fire. Funeral of the Victims. Socialist Demonstrations. Mine Other Denounced. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 15 March 1906 · page 2

After the funerals of the victims whose bodies had been recovered from the collapsed and burning galleries of the Courrieres collieries, the…

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Coal Lumpers and Arbitration

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 15 March 1906 · page 3

In the Coal Lumpers award to-day the Arbitration Court decided that it had jurisdiction and declared a common rule…

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South Africa. Depreciation in Rand Mining Shares. Constant for Past Two Years. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 15 March 1906 · page 2

In the House of Commons last night the Earl of Elgin, Secretary, of State for the Colonies, replying to a question, said that depreciation in value…

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Cablegrams. Coal Mine Fires. Entombed MINErS Still Alive. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 2

In connection with the recent colliery disaster at Courrieres, France, many engineers assert that men are still alive in the remote galleries of…

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