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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1916

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Munitions Output. Coal Supply Anxiety. Reprisals Against Foe

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 16 August 1916 · page 2

"The Times" correspondent in Rome, while eulogistic of the speech delevered at Milan by Mr. Walter Runciman (President of the British Board of Trade),…

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Coorabin Coal Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 August 1916 · page 18

Work in the Coorabin coal mine was brought to an abrupt termination recently by a sudden inrush of water, which was struck at a depth of 270ft. and rose rapidly…

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Mine Manager Killed. Buried by Fall of Earth. Shift Boss Escapes. Bendigo

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 22 August 1916 · page 3

By a full of from 10 to 20 tons of earth in the underground workings in the New Golden Fleece mine, Diamond Hill, this morning James Herbel, manager of the…

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Oakland's Coal

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 25 August 1916 · page 2

Commenting on operations being carried out at the Oaklands coal field, the correspondent of a district contemporary writes:—"Shortly…

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Anti-conscription. Illawarra Miners' Motion. Wolloxgong

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 28 August 1916 · page 2

The delegate board meeting of the Illawarra Colliery Employes Association was held to-day. A motion was carried, requesting the Coal and Shale Employes…

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The Australian Gold Rush of 1851

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 30 August 1916 · page 6

Australia was gradually develop ing ns an agricultural country when in 1851, an event occurred which caused a wild and impe[?]ous rush to…

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The State Coal Mine

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 1

The Minister for Mines has announced that he has decided to proceed with the development of the State coal mine without delay…

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State Coal Mines to Be Established

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 32

The Minister for Mines, Mr. Estell, stated this week that he intended to go ahead with the establishment of a State coal mine at Lithgow, despite the…

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Idle Miners in West Australia

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 1

Four more mines in West Australia shut down yesterday. Altogether 2700 men are idle…

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Coal Fields

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 8 September 1916 · page 2

Commenting on operations being carried out at the Oaklands coal fields a correspondent writes :—"Shortly after getting into some very…

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Miners' Wages Raised

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 13 September 1916 · page 2

The arbitrator has granted the Scottish miners an increase in pay of 6d, per day. The miners claimed an advance of 1/…

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Allies' Gold Pooled. Extraordinary National Financial Scheme. London

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 15 September 1916 · page 6

It has been arranged by Mr. Asquith and Mr. McKenna that the Allies will pool all their gold in order to render the collective financial position more…

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Other Items British Government Taking over the Coal Industry. Naval AEroplanes at Belgium

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 19 September 1916 · page 2

"The Manchester Guardian" says that the Government proposes to take over the coal industry. The profits and prices of wages will not be affected…

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War Tax Affecting Mines

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 September 1916 · page 32

The Federal Treasurer has received an exhaustive report from the Australian Metal Exchange on the War Time Profits Taxation Assessment Bill. The executive…

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The World's Gold

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 22 September 1916 · page 3

Taking tho present position of the world at large, there is no doubt whatever as to the fact of paper money infiation…

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An Ice Mine

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 September 1916 · page 3

Unbelievable as it may seem, there exists at Coudersport. Pennsylvania, an ice mine. It was discovered some 18 years ago by a farmer who, nothing a…

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N.S.W. State Coal Mines. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 28 September 1916 · page 2

Mr. Estell, Minister for Mines, turned the first sod of the State coal mine at Lithgow to-day. He said the Government proposed to establish another one in the…

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Iron Chains Exchanged for Gold

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 October 1916 · page 2

Amsterdam states that according to the "Tageblatt" the collection of gold in Germany for the Imperial Bank begins on October 15…

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A May Who Wearied of Gold

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 13 October 1916 · page 3

Prinsloo originally owned a farm situated on the Rand. When gold was discovered there the speculators worried him so much, that he…

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Suspicious Happening at a Coal Mine

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 October 1916 · page 1

A number of loaded coal skips and fourteen empty ones were wilfully let loose at the Corrimal Mine. They ran down an incline and caused damage…

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