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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1914

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Miners Celebrate a Year's Peace. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 23 March 1914 · page 3

The Miami miners, who 12 months age made an agreement with Mr. John Brown to Preserve peace for five years, held a picnic yesterday to celebrate the…

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2500 Workers Idled. a Colliery Closes Down. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 March 1914 · page 2

The Whitburn [?]y, employing 2560 bards, is closing down owing to the heavy working expanses…

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Coal Steamer Founders. Twenty Lives Lost London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 March 1914 · page 2

The steamer Heinrich, laden with coal, foot Cardiff for Marseilles, has foundered with 20 hands…

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Rich Gold Discovery. Three Nuggets Weigh 304 oz

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 25 March 1914 · page 4

It was reported in Ballarat last Wednesday that almost in the township of Corindhap, at a depth of about twenty feet, Messrs W. and A. Ro…

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Storyteller. Richard Ashleigh; or, a Son of the Mine. Chapter VII.—(Continued)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 March 1914 · page 7

Reflecting thus, she could not restrain a sob, as, with tear dimmed eyes, she felt for the latch of the gate. Groping there, she started as her hand touched another…

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General Cable News. Yorkshire Mining Dispute. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 31 March 1914 · page 2

A committee appointed by the Conciliation Board has arrived at a settlement of the dispute in the South Yorkshire Collieries, provided that the strike noticed…

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Immense Coal Seam

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 2

News has been received at Quirindi of the discovery of an immense seam of coal at Breeza. During boring operations the bore pierced 17 feet of coal, and was still…

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What Coal Can Do

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 3

Does anyone realise the power of coal as a worker? A man was set to work a pump as hard as he could all day, and at the end of ton…

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Making Gold Solved. an Australian Alchemist's Triumph Its Manufacture Shortly to Begin

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 3

One of the world's greatest problems to solve which the brainest men of the ages since the dawn of civilisation have devoted their liyes…

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German Colliery in Yorkshire. an Industrial Invasion. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 2

The village of Haworth, in Yorkshire, is experiencing an industrial Continental invasion. A new coal pit is being sunk in the…

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Burial Ground for the World's Gold

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 4

A royal commission has been appointed by Great Britain to discover what India does with all the gold it takes away from the rest of the…

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German Colliery. Opened in England. London, April 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 43

A good deal of comment is being caused by the fact that a new colliery, under German ownership, is being established at Haworth in Yorkshire. The preliminary…

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Richard Ashleigh; or, a Son of the Mine. Chapter X.—(Continued.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 9

After he had taken his departure Dewice awaited the return of her guardian convinced that he would upbraid her for bringing Elsby into the house. To her…

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Washing in Gold

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 4

A French journalist who had speculated in railway shares won 200,000f. as the result of a lucky venture. Drawing it in gold, he proceeded to an…

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Yoekshire Colliery Dispute Offer May Be Accepted. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 14 April 1914 · page 2

There seems fair prospect of the Strike in the Yorkshire coal mining industry being settled The delegates of the Yorkshire Miners'…

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A Deal in Coal

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 4

Dicky Dunmore drove his pencil through his dance and furiously. "But my dear [?] be said I'm not a man of action. I never was…

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Cablegrams. Immense Unworked Gold of the Rand. Evidence of Experts. Johannesburg

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 3

Experts have testified before the Dominions' Commission that only one-fifth of the known gold mining area of the Rand is being worked…

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For Men Who Work Down in Mines. Apparatus for Safety and Rescue. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 16 April 1914 · page 2

As the outcome of the Seughenydd disaster, the Government has decided to make so of the self-contained breathing apparatus compulsory, or, as an alternative, the…

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Yorkshire Coal-miners. Strikers Accept Terms. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 2

The result of the ballot taken among the Yorkshire coal miners, now on strike, on the question of accepting the terms offered by the Conciliation Board, was…

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How to Save Coal

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 6

The coal bill in winter is a very serious item of household expenditure. There are many patent grates certified to reduce the consumption of coal to a…

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