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Mining & the mines, 1908

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Further Explosions Reported. Rescue Parties Trapped. Thirty More Persons Entombed. Sixty-seven Miners Perish

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 17 February 1908 · page 3

Later particulars announce that the rescue parties have been successful in bringing out native colliers. A second explosion, however, occurred,…

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The Coal Trouble. Situation Much Easter

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 February 1908 · page 3

The special coal court at Newcastle resumed its session to-day taking or dinary evidence. In the of the collieries where there…

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Soothing the Coal Miners

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 February 1908 · page 5

All the coal mines in the Newcastle district were in full work to-day, and matters between employers and employes are "progressing soothingly…

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Wyalong Miners on Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 February 1908 · page 3

A telegram received from West Wyalong states that the which of the men employed in the gold miners on the field, with the exception of the…

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The First Gold in Australia

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 February 1908 · page 20

The first definite record of the discovery of gold in Australia (85 yeats on Saturday last) is a note by Mr. James M'Brien, assistant surveyor, in a fieldbook which he used while…

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Mining Market. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 February 1908 · page 4

Great Southern, b 21/, c 25/, Great Southern Come[?], b 5/6, 6/4. Chiltern Valley, b 19/, c 25/…

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Mine Explosions. Disaster in Natal. London, February 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 February 1908 · page 43

The Glencoe Colliery, in Natal, is the scene of a remarkable disaster, the extent of which cannot yet be gauged. An explosion occurred at the mine,…

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Mining Strike at Wyalong. "West Wyalong

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 February 1908 · page 21

A big meeting of the Minors' Association held last night decided to strike for eight hours. All miners, with the exception of these employed at the True Blue…

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Cablegrams. (Per Reuter.) Transvaal's Fickleness Coolies for the Mines. Stupid Dutch Obstinacy. Won't Have British Indians. Wants to Get French Madagascans. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 22 February 1908 · page 2

The Transvaal under Boer rule has not yet got over her trouble in finding suitable labor to work the gold mines on the Rand…

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The Durham Colliery Explosion. Great Damage to the Workings. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 2

Further particulars have been received in connection with the disastrous explosion in the Glebe Colliery, Washington, near Sunderland, Durham, by which fourteen…

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Disputes in the Coal Trade. Rumour of a Serious Crisis

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 2

It is rumored that a serious development in the dispute in the coal trade between the [?] owners and the miners has taken place. A…

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Chiltern Miners' Association

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 25 February 1908 · page 4

The adjourned half-yearly meeting of the Chiltern and Indigo branch of the Amalgamated Minors Association was hold at Rutherglen last week,…

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Discontent in the Coal Trade. Two More Strikes

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 25 February 1908 · page 3

The business of the Special Coal Court was again paralysed this morning when the sitting was opened at Newcastle, When the court met counsel for the mine-owners…

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The Everlasting Coal Troubles

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 26 February 1908 · page 5

The special coal court resumed its sittings to-day, and the question was debated as to whether the miners in the Wallsand Colliery, by refusing to do shift work on…

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Japanese Financial Panic. Gold Shipped From Australia

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 27 February 1908 · page 3

As a consequence of the financial panle in Japan, which resulted in the closing of four banks at Tokio and the rain of about a dozen large…

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How to Kill Natives. Employ Them in Mines. a Starting Death Rate. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 27 February 1908 · page 2

Mr. Whiston Churchill, Under Secretary for the Colonles, stated in reply to a question in the House of Commons last night, that the average mortality among the…

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Recognition of Heroism. Two Coal Miners Ilonored. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 2

His Majesty the King to-day personally bestowed the Edward" medal on two coalminers named Chandler and Everson, for consplcnous gallantry in gaving lie. In…

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A Five Shilling Violir Solo for [?]500. Pipes Set Wp[?] Diamonds; and Carriage-bandles Made of Gold

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 3

The pipe smehed by the Shab of Persia on State occasions is at with diamonds, [?]ics, and [?] of the enelcest kind, and to [?] to…

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General Cable News. London, Sunday. Disastrous Mine Explosion, Seventy Persons Killed

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

A disastrous explosion occurred on Friday in the Monterey Steal Company's mine at Sabinas in Mexice, in all 70 miners were killed…

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British or French. Coolie Labor for Rand Mines. Madagascar Labor Unavailable. London

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

In connection with the request made by the Transvaal Government to the Secretary of State for the Colonies to ask the French Government if it would sunction…

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