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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1909

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Broken Hill Strike. Miners Will Abide by the Award. Broken Hill

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 2

The Arbitration Court continued Its sitting this morning at 10 O'clock. Before proceeding to take evidence Mr. Justice Higgins asked Mr. Arthur,…

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Mining in Morocco. Syndicates Formed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 13 February 1909 · page 2

Several France German and British syndicates have been formed to carry on mining in Morocco…

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Gold Buying Prosecutions

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 16 February 1909 · page 3

The time of £50 and costs imposed on E. A. Keller storekeeper, of Children, for a technical breach of the act, no [?] of fraud bring in the [?]…

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Cablegrams. Colliery Explosion at Durhah

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 18 February 1909 · page 2

A tearful colliery [?] occurred yesterday in the West Stanley pit at the Durham Collections. ham-diat[?]ly afterwards a huge tongue of [?] darted forth…

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Dreadful Double Drowning Case. the Teacher and the Taught in a Mine Dam. Cobar

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 18 February 1909 · page 2

A dreadful case of drowning occurred here to-day, when two persons lest their lives. A young man named William Harris…

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Cablegrams Durham Colliery Disaster. 110 Miners Missing. All Supposed to Have Perished. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 19 February 1909 · page 3

The latest [?] with remand to the colli[?]y explosion at the West Stanley [?] that 37 of the men who were [?] have been [?]…

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Colliery Disaster

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 February 1909 · page 2

All hope of further rescues from the Stanley Colliery has been abandoned. The death roll numbers 150…

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Durham Colliery Disaster. Too Lives Lost. All Hope Abandoned. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 20 February 1909 · page 2

The latest news the West [?] is of the [?] character. All hope of further [?] has been [?]…

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Coal From Newcastle. Shortage in Weights Alleged London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 24 February 1909 · page 2

A number of complains have been made lately of shortage in weights of coal shipped from Newcastle (N.S.W.). The losses incurred in this way by consignees…

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Coal Miners' Wages. Reduction in Wales and Scotland

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 25 February 1909 · page 2

The conolliatior boards in connection with the coal mining industry in Wales and Scotland have decided simultaneously on a redyetion in the wages of the miners…

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Wheat Growing in N.s.w. “A Gold Mine Yet to Be Exploited.”

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 3

“In wheat-growing in New South Wales there’s a gold mine.” The speaker was the manager of a very big agricultural property in the Young…

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Colliery Explosion. Great Loss of Life. London, February 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 41

Thirty-seven men have been rescued from the colliery at West Stanley where the frightful explosion occurred. There are 107 men still entombed, and fears are…

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River Flats and Gold Predging

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 4

There of the rich a agricultural districts in Victoria are compried in the wall vs of the Miles [?] the [?] and the Ovena. The former, which…

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Storyteller. Published by Special Arrangement. The Sentence of the Court. Author, of "The Queen of Night," "Guilty Gold," "By a Hair-breadth," "The Spies of the Wight," Etc., Etc. Chapter Iv.—the Coil Begins to Wind

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 8

While leger Vipan was dropping mysterious hints into the car of Sir Henry Selwood in the dinning-room, the successor of old Doctor Bathurst was making…

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Colliery on Fire. Wellington (N.z.)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 3 March 1909 · page 5

Word has been [?]vived from [?]…

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Miners Locked Out at Rix's Greek. Singleton

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 3 March 1909 · page 2

The miners at Rix's Creek were looked out this morning. Sixty men are affected. The principle of nine hours work a…

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INTERCOLONIAL. Rushworth Mine Mystery

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 March 1909 · page 32

The adjourned inquest touching the death of the two persons whose bodies were found in the main shaft of the Rush-worth (Vic.) gold mine on November 27…

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Civil War in Persia. Revolutionaries Lay Mine. London, March 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 March 1909 · page 43

The revolutionaries at Resht, in Northern Persia, who lately seized the town, murdered the Governor, and kidnapped the Shah's brother, Shuah—as-Sultanch…

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Gold in Paris. Deaths From Exposure. London, February 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 March 1909 · page 43

The closing days of winter in Paris are being marked by intense cold. Yesterday seven deaths from exposure occurred in the streets of the city…

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Western Collieries Board. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 9 March 1909 · page 3

Judge Heydon, sitting in the Court of Industrial Arbitration this morning, had before him the matter of the appointment of the members of the West…

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