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Mining & the mines, 1906

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Gold Mining Leases Awaiting Execution

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 16

J. S. Dane, 326a. 3r., Beechworth M. Duane and J. Davidson, 44a. 3r. 14p., Yackandandah…

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Farmers v. Miners

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 29

A Baddaginnie report states:-For several weeks the farmers living on the lower past of the Woolpress Creek have been in some straits for want of water for…

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Entombed Miners Fed Through a Bore-Hole

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 25

The rescue operations for the relief of the miners entombed in the Pretoria Pit, at Clackmannan, Scotland, on Saturday, February 3rd. owe their success in a great…

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Mine That Never Was. "Band of the Baker" Swindlers

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 2

On 26th December, the Paris correspondent of the "London Express" worte:--Another exploit of the "Band of the…

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Miners' Eight Hours. Attitude of the Ministry. London, March 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 26

The Ministry has promised to support the second reading of the Miners' Eyght Hours Bill, and afterwards to consider what their further attitude towards it will…

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Cable News. Mines on Fire. a Vast Furnace Nearly 1200 Deaths. Terrific Explosion. Agonising Scenes. London, March 11

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 26

An awful calamity has occurred in France, where-according to the latest estimate-nearly 1200 men have met a terrible death while at work in the mines…

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Coal Mine Fires. the Courrieres Disaster. Nine Hundred Corpses in the Mine. to Be Covered with Quicklime. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 March 1906 · page 2

It is believed that none of the victims entombed in the colliery at Courieres are now alive. Owing to the impossibility of…

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Mining

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 March 1906 · page 2

Prospects on the Upper Murray tin mining field are very favourable, the tin met with being coarse and of good quality. A Sydney company at…

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Governor-general Down a Coal Pit

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 March 1906 · page 3

This morning the Governor-General and Lady Northcote and suite went round the Newcastle Harbor on the steamer Namoi…

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France. the Colliery Disaster. Miners Out on Strike. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 2

M. Clemenceau, French Minister of the Interior and the editor and proprietor of "L" Aurore," has conferred with the Labor Federation sitting at…

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Death of a Mining Magnate

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 3

Mr. George Lansell died on Sunday. His death has removed the most striking feature in the history of the Bendigo field…

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Snow Slides on the Rockies. Twenty Miners Killed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 March 1906 · page 3

Serious snow slides have occurred at Mount Ouraye, south west of Denver, in the State of Colorado, by which twenty miners were killed and six…

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Earthquake in Formosa. Thousands Killed. Damage Mine Millions

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 March 1906 · page 3

The recent earthquake in the Island of Formosa was more serious than was at first supposed. In one district alone 100 persons…

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France. the Miners' Strike. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 2

The strike of coal miners in the North of France is spreading,-and it is estimated that 60,000 men are out of work. Serious disturbances have…

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Prentice & Southern Mines. Work Stopped by Directors

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 5

On Saturday last Mr. S. P. Goldings Rutherglen director, received a wire [?] the office of the company to instruct the mine manager to…

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French Miners. Higher Wages Demanded. London, March 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 27

Two or three days after the mining calamity, the miners at Courrieres struck for an increase of wages of 10 per cent. In the Lens district of Pas-de-Calais-…

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The Coal Miners' Strikes

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 24 March 1906 · page 2

The strike amongst the coal miners in the North of France is rapidly, spreading. Two thousand miners at Mons…

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Continental Coal Strike. the Movement Spreading. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 26 March 1906 · page 2

The strike of coal miners, which has been extended from Franco to Belgium, threatens a further expansion. The men employed at Ruha on the…

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Chiltern Miners' Cricket Club

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 27 March 1906 · page 3

A committee meeting of the above was held at the Town Hall, Chiltern to-night. Mr. Boucher (vice-president) directed the meeting, and there were…

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Chiltern Miners' Cricket Club

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 29 March 1906 · page 4

The adjourned meeting of the committee was held in the Town Hall tonight. Mr. Cosgrave was voted to the chair, and there were present—…

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