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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1908

421 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 22

Miners' Eight Hours Bill Replies to a Deputation. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 28 March 1908 · page 2

Mr. Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary, replying yesterday to a large deputation of protest representing iron, nicol, cotton, shipping, and other industries…

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Rand Gold Law. the Rights of the Grown. Restrictions of Colored Races, London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 30 March 1908 · page 2

The may Rand Gold Law passed by the Transvaal Government vests the sole right of mining for gold in the Crown. In the case of other metals the right in vested…

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Cablegrams. Smothering of Seventy Miners. by After Dame in a Coal Mine. While Searching for Bodies. of Two of Their Mates. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 31 March 1908 · page 2

An explain of end gas in the Union Paeitie coal mine at Hanna, in the State of Wyaming (U.S.A), has been followed by [?] to the resume…

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Mining News. Rutherglen

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 31 March 1908 · page 4

At the Great Southern Consols the south drive off the new No.27 rise has been driven 72[?]and the was is very close to the backs, The cast drive has…

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American Colliery Disputes. a Quarter of a Million Men Idle. Pending Agreement As to Wages. London

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

The Associated Colliery Owners in various parts of the United States of America have come to a determination to close down their mines pending an agreement…

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Rand Gold Laws New Mining Regulations. London. March 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 42

Comprehensive provisions for the regulation of mining are included in the new Rand gold law which has been passed by the Transvaal Parliament…

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Grains of Gold

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 4

The man who trusts nobody is generally the man whom nobody trusts. Charity covers a multitude of [?] sometimes keeps them warm and makes…

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West Australian Mining

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 33

Mr. C. H. Rason (Agent-General for West Australia) read a paper before the Society of Arts in London upon the mineral resources of West Australia. Sir Frederick Bedford…

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A Mining Incident

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 6
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser, The Riverine Grazier

On 4th December a fall of rock in a gold mine of Ely, Nevada, entombed several men. Three men named Bailey, Brown, and Macdonald were covered a…

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Special Mining Court

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

The commission appointing the special mining court to inquire into duferences exicting in the coal trade at Newcastle, will expire on April a next,…

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Mine Explosions Seventy Rescuers Suffocated. London, March 30

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 43

A double disaster has occurred in the Union Pacific Company's coal mine at Hanna, Wyo-ming, in the United States. An explosion of gas killed two workmen…

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Diamonds and Gold. Past Impostures. Stories Re-told

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 3

The story of Lemo[?]ne and Wernher recalls that of some extraordinary, almost incredible, and for a while brilliantly successful impostures in the…

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United States Fleet Will Coal at Auckland. London, March 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 42

The naval authorities at Washington, who are arranging the itinerary of the United States battleship squadron on its cruise of the Pacific, have decided to…

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Eight Hours in Mines. Opposition in Great Britain. Deputations to the Home Secretary. London, March 27

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 42

The Eight Hours in Mines Bill, which was introduced last month by the Government and which…

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Mining News. Great Northern Extended Consols. Rutherglen

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 6

The boring carried out to the west of the make of wash that has been worked south of this company's shall has given highly satisfactory results…

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A Turkey That Yielded Gold

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 6 April 1908 · page 3

It is stated that Mr. Michael Healy licensee of the Meeniyan Hotel at Meeniyan, in the Tarwin River district, made an extraordinary…

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Grains of Gold. Original and Otherwise

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1908 · page 13

Keep the kettle boiling, somebody may be calling. An hour in the morning is worth two in the afternoon…

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Stolen Coal Given. Starving Man Set Free

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 April 1908 · page 2

There was an unusual and happy ending to a case at Croydon on Monday, 13th January, when Thomas Dodson, 39, of Sallsbury road, Woodside, was…

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