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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1907

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Coal 'Gas Poisoning

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 20 June 1907 · page 3

At the inquest into the death of Eva Millen, who was found dead in a house at Paddington on May 27, evidence was given by Dr. Armstrong regarding the…

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An Extraordinary Robbery. Ascot Gold Cup Stolen. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 20 June 1907 · page 2

An extraordinary robbery was perpetrated ion the Ascot racecourse while the Ascot Cup meeting was in progress. The Gold Cup, which goes with the…

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Mining at Tumbarumba

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 20

Mining operations throughout the district are in full swing, owing to the good supply of water. Several parties at Cherry Hill are on good gold…

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Coal-lumpers Disturbance at Blackwattle Bay

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 3

As a result of the recent coal-lumpers disturbance at Blackwattle Bay on June 13, a coal-lumper named Glovanni Embarnone was charged at the Water Polite…

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Ascot Gold Cup. Thieves' Great Haul

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 45

The stewards at the Ascot race meeting had a most unpleasant surprise yesterday. It was the first day of the Gold Cup meeting, and the cup which goes a trophy to…

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The Coal Tar Remedy for Rabbits. a Balranald Man Experiments Successfully

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 1

A despatch from Wagga states that a simple method of destroying rabbits has been applied with most successful results by Mr W. M. Robertson,…

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New Zealand a Terrible Colliery Disaster. Three Men Entombed. Auckland

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 5

A fatal colliery disaster has occurred at Nightcaps Colliery at Southland. A fire broke out in the colliery and three miners named William Duncan,…

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The Romance of "Old Men" in Mining

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 3

The records of engineering hold few more romantic and interesting episodes than the discoveries made in the modern mines of ancient and…

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Theft of the Ascot Gold Cup Escape in a Motor Car. Gang of Colonial Thieves Suspected. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 2

It is believed that four men were implicated in the theft of the Ascot Gold Cup, and that after the trophy was abstracted from the room in which it was exhibited,…

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The Poseidon Gold Field

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 25 June 1907 · page 3

Messrs Hughes and Jackson, owners of the claim on which the bulk of the previously found nuggets have been unearthed at Tarnagulla have just found another…

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Application for a Mining Lease

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 25 June 1907 · page 2

At the Albury Warden's Court yesterday, before Mr Warden Oslear, William Crighton and party made application for a mining lease of 100 acres situate at…

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Death From Coal Gas Poisoning

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 3

The inquest into the death of Eva Millen, who was poisoned at Paddington on May 23 through an escape of coal gas, was oncluded to-day. The coroner…

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New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. Coal Lumpers' Disturbances

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 3

The hearing of the cases against the coal lumpers charged in connection with the Blackwattle Bay fracas on June 13, was to-day further adjourned till Monday…

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Gold in Graves

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 32

Following upon the cutting of rich quartz in the grave of the later Mr. Thomas C. "Thomas (a prominent sharebroker), a further discovery of gold-bearing stone has…

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The Rand Mines. Transvaal Ministry's Stand London, June 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 43

A definite statement of the intentions of the Transvaal Government in relation to the Chinese mine labourers on the Rand has been made by the Premier (General…

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New South Wales Mining Act. New Regulations Issued

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 28

New regulations under the Mining Act, to come into operation on 15th July, wore issued on Wednesday. Under them the mining leases of Crown lands are now uniform as regards…

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Coal in an Ice-cliff

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 1

It can scarcely be said that there has ever been a “favoured nation” in the matter of coal; for of all nature’s distributed materials coal is…

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Rand Miners' Strike. Compulsory Arbitration Bill Refused. Depreciation of Property. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 2

A deputation representing the miners on strike on the Rand waited on General Botha, Premier of the Transvaal, and asked that the Government should…

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The Coal-lumpers' Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 2 July 1907 · page 3

The Conference between representatives of the Coal-Lumpers' Union and the Steam Colliers and Coal Stevedore's Association in regard to the…

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New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. Coal-lumpers' Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 5

The Conference between the representatives of the Coal-lumpers' Union and the Colliers and Stevedores' Association was continued to-day…

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