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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1913

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Entombed Miners Dead. Belle Valley (Ohio)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 May 1913 · page 2

The res[?]e parties report that the minors entombed in the Imperial mine are dead…

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South Wales Mining Trouble. Non-unionists Give Way. 50,000 Join the Federation, London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 May 1913 · page 2

The non-unionist trouble in South Wales, which caused a strike of 20,000 miners ear lier in the month, has now been practically settled…

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Mail Steamer Blown Up. Strikes Floating Mine. 120 Persons on Board. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 23 May 1913 · page 3

News has just been received of a serious shipping catastrophe. The Messageries Maritimes' liner Senegal, engaged in the trade between…

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Storyteller. the Hour-glass Mystery. Chapter Ix. "A Mountain of Gold."

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 May 1913 · page 8

(Mr. Barker with alacrity accepted my invitation to be seated. "You, see," he said, falling into a confidential tone, "my being here is. all along of Fanny. I beg…

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A Goldfields Romance. Question of Marriage

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 26 May 1913 · page 4

The hearing was continued in the Sydney probate court on Friday before Mr. Justice Street, of the cases in connection with the estate of the late Lily Barlow, of Teven,…

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Northumberland Miners' Pay

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 2

The Miners of Northumberland have secured a further increase of 6¼ per cent in their wages…

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Coal Vend Case. Appeal to Privy Council. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 29 May 1913 · page 2

The Commonwealth Coal Vend case (King v. Adelaide Steamship Co., Ltd.) was before the judicial committee of the Privy Council Again yesterday. In this…

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Gold Mining. Revival at Dart River

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 3

There is a mining revival on the Dart river, at the site of the old workings, Twenty-five years age there was quite a large mining population at Canvas Town,…

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A Gold Medallist. Cudgewa

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—I have not written to you for. a long while, but I am going to write, of ten now. I am 12 years old, and I am in the seventh grade at school. I…

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Cancellation of Mining Leases

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 32

The Minister for Mines, Mr. Edden, attended the conference of the Amalgamated Miners' Association at the Trades Hall, and discussed with delegates certain proposed…

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French Liner. Blown Up by a Mine. London, May 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 43

The Messageries Maritimes steamer Senegal (3625 tons), which makes regular trips from Marseilles to Mediterranean ports, Turkey, and Egypt, has been blown…

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Steamer Strikes Mine. Great Loss of Life. Constantinople, May 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 42

Owing to a collision with mines, the , steamer Nevada was sunk off Smyrna. The Nevada, which was flying "the American, flag, is owned by the Hadjidvut…

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Late Cable News. the Coal Vend. Privy Council Decision. London, May 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 45

The Privy Council this morning dismissed, with costs, the appeal in the case of the King v. the Adelaide Steamship Company. The Commonwealth Government appealed…

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Cannibalism on Gold Coast. 40 Death Sentences Reported. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 4 June 1913 · page 3

Sir William G[?]llith, Chief Justice of the Gold Coast Colony since 1895, has reached London from Accra by the R.M.S. Nigeria…

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As Good As a Gold Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 June 1913 · page 4

Professor White estimates that no fewer than 400,000,000 gas-mantles are used every year, and as these gas-mantles cannot be manufactured without a substance…

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World's Biggest Diamond Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 June 1913 · page 21

Twenty-five miles east of Pretoria is what is known as the Premier Diamond Mine, the biggest in the world, where 15,000 Kaffirs may be seen any day. digging…

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Coal Vend Appeal Dismissed

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 6 June 1913 · page 5

After an expenditure of £75,000 in taking the Coal Vend case to the Privy Council that court has dismissed the appeal…

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Abolition of Night Shift in Mines

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 June 1913 · page 31

The conference of delegates from the branches of the Amalgamated Miners' Association of New South Wales, which has been sitting for over a week, concluded a…

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New Oil Beats Coal. Thousands of Pounds Can Be Saved by Liners Every Voyage

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 June 1913 · page 4

Twenty years age the business expert would have laughed at the suggestion of oil being a rival of coal. Yet what was not then…

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A Mining Disaster. 30 Men Entombed. Pittsburgh (Penn.)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 June 1913 · page 2

Another mining disaster has been reported Thirty miners have been imprisoned in consequence of an explosion in a shaft of the Susquchana Coal Co. in the…

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