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Mining & the mines, 1910

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Wales Coal War Strikers Out of Hand. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 November 1910 · page 2

Affairs are in a serious way in connection with the South Wales strike and riots are daily threatened. Picketing is increasing in rigor. Many…

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Public Spirited Offer Gift of Coal Mine Area. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 22 November 1910 · page 2

The Government has received an offer of a gift of a coal area underlying 3714 acres [?] the Northumberland electorate belonging to a private individual…

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South Wales Coal War Officials' Houses Damaged. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 22 November 1910 · page 2

Further outrages directed against the managers of the collieries in South Wales are reported. Pellets from explosives are embedded in…

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Wales Coal Trouble Outrage and Intimidation. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 23 November 1910 · page 2

Outrages by the strikers and their sympathisers South Wales continue to be of daily occurrence. Every effort ia being made to intimidate…

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South Wales Coal Strike Five Hundred Persons Injured London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 24 November 1910 · page 2

The riots in Tonypany have recurred with great violence. and it is reported that yesterday in the conflicts with the police 500 persons were injured…

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New Sooth Wales. Coal Field As a Gift to State. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 24 November 1910 · page 3

The Minister of Mines (Mr. Edden)today, received a departmental report regarding the land offered as a State coal mine as Warner setate, Wyong…

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Miner"s Heroic Action

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 3

A gallant action was performed by W. Young in the Senate mine, Ex[?] W.A., on Tuesday. Young and Joseph Brown were spetting fuses in a drive off…

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For the Safety of Miners

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 3

In the House of Commons Mr. Winston Churchill, the Home Secretary, announced that his office was appointing 30 sub-inspectors from among miners and quarrymen,…

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The Selling Price of Coal

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 6

The time at which the coal-owners of Newcastle usually declare the selling price of coal for the next twelve months as passed, and they have made no sign…

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Sydney Notes. the Coal Industry

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 6

His Excellency, Lord Chelmsford, and Mr. Edden, Minister for Mines, are making a sort of triumphal tour in the Newcastle district. Needles to say there is a…

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The [?] on the Mining Industry

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 4

Equally with agriculture mining is a [?] industry of Australasia. Why, [?] is it tainted with a hundred and one disadvantages that give to it the color of a…

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Fatal Fall of Rock. Two Miners Buried. One Instantly Killed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 43

A shocking fatality occurred shortly before noon on Monday at the New Bruce's mine, Daylesford (Vic.). Only the bottom level, 450ft. from the surface…

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Tram Breaks Away. Three Miners Killed. Many Injured. London, November 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 43

The Kingswood coal mine, near Bristol, has been the scene of a distressing tramway disaster. The tram, laden with 62 of the colliers, was descending an incline…

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South Wales Coal Strike Desperate Fighting in Streets Boiling Water Thrown at Police. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 2

Fuller news now to hand shows that the rioting in the Welsh towns of Penycraig and Tonypandy was of a very serious character…

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Fate of Gold-seekers. Prospectors Dead and Dying. Food Supplies Shut Out. Vancouver, November 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 43

A story of terrible disaster comes from the Porcupines gold camps, in Northern Ontario. There has been a failure in the getting-in of the food supplies. The result…

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South Wales Coal Strike Conference Projected. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 28 November 1910 · page 2

Following on a conference between Mr. G. R. Askwith, of the Board of Trade, and the leaders of the South Wales miners, a | general conference is projected to deal…

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South Wales Coal Strike Mine Officials Stoned. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 29 November 1910 · page 2

There is great danger of collieries being destroyed in South Wales daring the strike, owing to the pumping operations being suspended. The mining officials are…

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Generous Gift to Mr Wade Gold Purse of 2560. SYDNEY. Monday Night

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 29 November 1910 · page 2

At the Sydney Town Hail to-night the Lord Mayor, on behalf of the citizens of the State. presented the ex-Premier, Mr. Wade, with a massive gold purse…

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Dreadful Colliery Explosion. Bodies Hurled 200 Feet

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 30 November 1910 · page 2

An appalling disaster occurred at Jumbo Colliery, Antlers, Oklahoma Owing to an explosion which was probably due to a lamp accident, 14 miners have been either…

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Cablegrams. West Australian Mines. Views Expressed in London. Government Should Approve of Prospectuses. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 1 December 1910 · page 2

At a meeting of the Society of Arts held in London, Mr. Montgomery, M.P., read a paper on West Australian mining, in which he contended that, in spite of wild cat…

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