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Mining & the mines, 1910

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Iron-miners's Strike at Bilbao. Trouble Spreads to Barcelona

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 September 1910 · page 2

The strike oF iron-miners at Blibao, in northern Spain, which has been in progress for two months, is now showing signs of collapsing…

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Eight-hours in Mines Working of the Act. Newspaper Piles on the Agony London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 September 1910 · page 2

The "Financial News," reviewing the working of the Eight Hours in Mines Act, comes to the conclusion that 26 per cent. more fatal accidents occurred in mines…

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Northern Coal Miners' Dispute

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 7 September 1910 · page 2

There is probability of a recurrence of the recent trouble between the Northumberland coal-miners and their employers. The original dispute was submitted by…

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Eight Hours in Mines

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 September 1910 · page 2

The colliery proprietors in South Wales estimate that the Eight Hours in Mines Act has increased the cost of production of coal by l/8d. a ton…

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New South Wales. Northern Collieries Wages Board. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 September 1910 · page 3

Mr. Addison, registrar of the Industrial Court. this morning received the resignation of Mr. Forsyth as employers' representative on the Northern Collieries Wages…

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A New Gold Find

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 September 1910 · page 5

While prospecting on the Pipeclay line of reef a few weeks ago Mr. T. Bunting came across a very promising find. He accordingly pegged out a lease next to…

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Oil or Coal?

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 September 1910 · page 2

I he many economic and unspent problems of a crude oil supply for liquid fuel purpose in war vessels are to-day [?] the serious…

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Coal Company to Be Prosecuted

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 September 1910 · page 5

Mr. Dunieavy, president of the Illawarra colliery Employes' Association, applied at the Industrial Court this morning for leave to proseeuie the Metropolitan Coal…

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The Mysterious Gold Dust

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 September 1910 · page 2

Gold dust to the value of 57,000 dollers (£11,400) was mysteriously stolen from the steamer Humboldt while making the voyage from Seattle, U.S.A., to Fairbanks…

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Miners Sue Their Union for Strike-pay

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 15 September 1910 · page 5

One thousand workmen employed at the Preston Colliery are swing the trustees of the Northumberland Miners' Union for severn weeks' strike-pay. The plaintiffs…

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Hot and Gold Flasks. Their Mystery Divulged

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 15 September 1910 · page 3

"Hot and cold flasks" are multiplying on the market, and promise to become articles of popular use. So it is essential people should…

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Alleged Stolen Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 September 1910 · page 19

At the Adelaide police court Charles Byrne was charged, on the information of Sub Inspector Priest, with having on 1st April had in his possession three blocks of…

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Fatal Mining Explosion

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 16 September 1910 · page 2

A detective miners lamp was the cause of a fatal explosion yesterday in a coal mine at Linton, in the State of Indiana. Two men were killed and fire seriously…

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Bringing Gold to the Bank

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 September 1910 · page 6
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser

The precautions which are taken to guard gold dispatched from the mines of Australia, America, or South Africa, to the Bank of England—which for years…

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Theft of Gold Coins. Milan Castle Robbed. a Valuable Collection. London, September 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 September 1910 · page 43

The historic Castello Storzesco, the Castle of Milan, has been entered by robers, who stole some valuable booty. According to the Milan correspondent of…

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The Discovery of Rutherglen Goldfields. September 9Th, 1860 Greets September 9Th, 1910. Mr. R. Turner's Opinion, Related in September 1892. the Discovery

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 September 1910 · page 6

To Mr. R. Turner, of Lake Moodemerr, must always allach the honor of the origin of the thriving town of Rutherglen for had it not been for his assistance and…

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Welsh Coal Dispute

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 September 1910 · page 2

Despite the fact that the executive of the Miners' Federation promised to provide strike pay if 12,000 men employed by the Cambrian Coal Combine gave a…

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Coal-miners Determined to Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 2

The efforts of Mr. W. Abraham, Labor member for Rhondda, and of other Labor leaders, to control the 12,000 miners employed by the Cambrian combine in South…

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The Welsh Coal Strikers. Provisional Settlement Arranged

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 21 September 1910 · page 2

Hundreds of miners from other districts attended the meeting of Cambrian miners on Sunday, when the strikers revolted. On Monday evening there was a calmer…

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