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Mining & the mines, 1908

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The Cheap Coal of China

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 28 October 1908 · page 3

"Ching Ching Chinatuan" sound famillar enough not to china [?] coals. Seven years ago the collerles of that name har[?] ex[?] now…

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Coal, in Geppsland

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 2

Another Government hare put down in the Powlett River basin Gippsland, has struck a seam of coal 6ft, 61a, thick. Dissatisfaction was caused in…

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Mining Accidents at Chiltern. Dynamte Cap Exprodes, Tricker Seriously [?] CHILTERN, Wednesday

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 3

Eurly this morning a repion accident [?] a young man named Thomes Hayer the [?] Valley No. 2 minte. Hayer was employed transking from the…

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Better Than Gold

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 8

Estella Marie Newley gave the churn dasher an extra jerk, spattering the cream in all directions on the clean kitchen floor as she reached for the…

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Mining News

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 2 November 1908 · page 4

Golden Bar. North—Winze sink in a depth of 20 feet, stone Vin, to [?] showing fair dish prospected rise up to [?] started driving off top of rises the same…

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Mining News. Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 3 November 1908 · page 4

The ordinary general meeting of share holder of the about company was held in Melbourne on Friday. The director report said: “The work…

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Broken Hill Industrial Relations. Reduction of Wages. Deprecated by Prominent Mining Investor. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 4 November 1908 · page 5

Speaking at the meeting of the Lake View Consols Ltd., Mr. Govett, the well-knwon mining investor, said that personally he was of the opinion that…

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A "Mines Scandal."

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 33

In the N.S.W. Legislative Amenably early on Friday morning, by way of a personal explanation, Mr. Dooley said, in regard to statements he was reported to have made at Newnes last…

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Buried in Coal

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 33

A remarkable instance of luck in the case of a coal lumper occurred in Sydney on board tho steamer Ayivshire. Sydney Davies was standing on the top of a mound of coal when…

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In the Roaring Sixties. the Great Rush at Canoona. Being a Reminiscent Yarn of Fifty Years Ago About Queensland's First Gold-Field

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 5

"Rush O! Rush O!" was a common enough cry along in the fifties and sixties, and the writer has a personal recollection of many of them—…

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In the Roaring Sixties. the Great Rush at Canoona. Being a Reminiscent Yarn of Fifty. Years Ago About Queensland's First Gold-Field

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 6
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"Rush O! Rush [?]! a common enough cry along in the fifties and sixties, and the writer has a personal rccollection of riiany of them—…

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Terrible Mining Disaster. Five Men Killed.—others Seriously Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 3

ROCKHAMPTON Q.), Wednesday. Scarcely two months have elapsed since Mount Morgan was overwhelmed by news of a terrible disaster. On…

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Mining Disaster. Great Fall of Rock. Five Men Killed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 28

A shocking disaster occured on Wednesday at Mrs. Morgan mine. A tremendous fall of earth occured in the workings, burying a number of miners. Five men…

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Mining News. Pleasant Hills Rush

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 6

Mr. Stevenson, P.M., warden for the district, paid a visit to Henty, and proceeded to Pleasant Hill to inspect a gold-mining rush that had taken…

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Mining News. Rutherglen

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 10 November 1908 · page 3

At the Great Southern Consols payable wash is now being obtained in the south drive off No. 28 rise. A very heavy stream of water is still coming through. At Nos…

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Wages Question at Chiltern. Contractors in Mines Complain. Monday

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 10 November 1908 · page 2

On Pay day Saturday at the Chiltern Valley No. 2 Mine, No. 1 party of contractors refused to take their cheque for the month's work on the…

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A Publican's Suicide. Hangs Himself in a Mining Shaft. Junee

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 10 November 1908 · page 3

Yesterday the body of a man was found under circumstances which seem to point to suicide. The name of deceased was Robert Rodgers, late…

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Fatal Accident. at Chiltern Valler No. 2 Mine. Chiltern

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 12 November 1908 · page 3

A fatal accident occurred at the Chiltern Valley No. 2 mine to-day, when a well-known minor named John Frawioy was killed. Deceased about 1.30 p.m. was…

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In the Roaring Sixties. the Great Rush at Canoona. Being a reminiscent Yarn of Fifty Years Ago About Queensland's First Gold-Field

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 November 1908 · page 5

How much gold was won at Canoona, no one can say—more, probably, than the authorities every knew, for records were not very carefully…

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