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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1909

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Correspondence. a Mining Manager Wanted. (To the Editor.)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 2

Sir,—Recently we had a sudden change in the mining managership at the Golden Bar Extended and a temporary appointment was made. This…

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General Cable News London, Tuesday Forty Thousand Million Tons of Coal

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 2

Recently completed surveys show that 10,000,000,000 tons of marketable coal are contained in the Canadian North Western Coal Fields…

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Grains of Gold. for Young and Old

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 April 1909 · page 13

Bed is a necessity; use it for what it is intended—to rest the mind and body, not a warm patch to "loaf" in. "Early to bed, early to rise, will make…

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The Bravest Woman. Earns the Humane Society's Gold Medal

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 April 1909 · page 2

The story of how Mrs Lavina Kennedy of Wahring, won the gold medal of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia, the highest award that the…

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Hermit's Board of Gold

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 4

An old man, John V. Heare, known as the "hermit of Spinney-hill," where he lived. Addlestone, Chortsey, Surrey, has inst. died in Cherstey Infirmary. The…

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Injured in a Mine. Ballarat

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 3

A miner named John Reid was working in a [?] in the [?]berris No. 1 mines to-day, when a quartz boulder fell from above, knocked away the staging which…

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No Coal Substitute. Exhaustion of British Mines

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 April 1909 · page 6
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser

Sir William Ramsay, the great chemist, doubted, in a speech at the British Science Guild recently, the possibility of discovering a substitute for coal, and…

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No Coal Substitute Exhaustion of British Mines

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 23 April 1909 · page 6

Sir "William Ramsay, the great chemist, doubted, in a speech at the British Science Guild recently, the possibility of discovering a substitute for coal, and…

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Railway Heroine. Humane Society's Award. First Woman Gold Medallist

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 April 1909 · page 1

One of the most courageous acts of self-sacrifice and heroism that has ever been reported to the Royal Humane Society of Australasia came under the…

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Railroad Heroine. Humane Society’s Award. First Woman Gold Medallist

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 23 April 1909 · page 3

One of the most courageous acts of self sacrifice and heroism that has ever been reported to the Royal Humane Society of Australia came under the notice of the court of…

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Dead Men's Gold Mine

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 27 April 1909 · page 3

Charles M'Land, of Edlmenten, while leading a party of [?] through the wlida of the North Western of Victoria, British Columbia, stumbled over the…

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Javanese for the Nickel Mines

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 28 April 1909 · page 5

[?] engers by the Dutch Company's steamer Van Spillielgan, which arrived this morning, are 199 Javanese, including 16 women, who are bound for the nickel…

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Port Pirie Miners Reengaged. Port Pirie

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 28 April 1909 · page 2

The notice posted on Saturday that the Proprietary Co. was prepared to engage from 50 to 100 men on Monday caused a big crowd to assemble in the road leading…

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Coal Pits Laid Idle. 400 Miners Affected

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 April 1909 · page 21

Two pits in the Southern district have ben laid idle owing to strikes of wheelers. Six wheelers, employed in the South Clifton Tunnel mine, refused, on Friday…

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Clifton Colliery Dispute

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 2

Work has been resumed at the South Clifton Colliery, the matter in dispute being referred to the Arbitration Court…

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South Clifton Collieries Resume. Wollongong

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 5

The South Clifton collieries, which have been thrown idle owing to the action of half a dozen youths who do the wheeling, in striking for increased…

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Block to Mine Thrown Open Only Nine Men Register. Broken Hill

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 May 1909 · page 2

The Block 10mine, in accordance with the previous intimation, was thrown open for the registration of miners wishing employment to-day. It…

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A New Kind of Coal-scuttle. a New Kind of Coal-scuttle

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 May 1909 · page 47

Harry Lauder, at a dinner in Washington, said of his kilt : "Mr. Speaker Cannon, of your House of Representatives, tells me that the kilt…

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Perils of the Mine. Recent Advances in Lifesaving

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 7 May 1909 · page 6

Before the Prince and princess of Wales and a distinguished audience at the Royal Institution on February 10, Sir Henry Cunynghame delivered an…

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