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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1916

351 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 18

Coal at Oaklands. Successful Trial Shaft

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 5 May 1916 · page 2

It is reported from Oaklands that the miners working on the shaft on Mr T. J. Lane’s property, at Coorabin siding, are now down to the seam…

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Unemployed Miners. Situation at Newcastle. Newcastle

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 5 May 1916 · page 1

Mr. Jensen will visit Newcastle on Thursday to meet re[?] of the coal-miners affected by the lack of export trade, as it [?] intention to…

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Coal Find the Seam Beached. Good Results Anticipated

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 5 May 1916 · page 2

Coal was struck at a depth of 220 feet in the shaft that was put down on Mr. J. T. Lane's property, one mile east of Coorabin Siding, and…

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Enemy Mine-sweepers. Submarine Sinks Three

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 6 May 1916 · page 3

The Copenhagen newspaper "Ribestifts Tidende" narrates that on October 7 last eight German mine-sweepers, under the charge of the auxiliary cruiser Kaiser,…

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German Gold Starts the Revolt. United States' Neutrality Violated

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 8 May 1916 · page 3

A New York. message says: "Mr. Patrick Egan, former United States Minister in Chili, and a well-known follower of Mr Redmond, states that John Devoy, the…

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Coal

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1916 · page 2

Mr. J. T. Lane has returned from Wonthaggi (Vic.), and in the course of a conversation said that the sample of coal which was got at a…

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Oaklands Coal

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1916 · page 2

We have on exhibition at this office a sample of the coal taken from the shaft sunk on Mr. J. T. Lane's property near Oaklands at a depth of a couple of…

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Coal at Oaklands

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 12 May 1916 · page 6

On Tuesday Mr. Frank Patey brought into Corowa a sample of coal obtained from the shaft sunk by Mr. J. D. Lane on his property, at a depth…

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Output of Coal

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 May 1916 · page 21

The British Government has requested the Miners' Federation of Great Britain to appoint delegates to meet its representatives in conference on May 16, to…

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Gold Discovery at Orange

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 12 May 1916 · page 2

Every available foot of ground has been taken up at Willwood station, Orange, where gold was recently discovered, and some…

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Attitude of Government Approved by Miners

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 12 May 1916 · page 2

At the annual conference of the Federated Mining Employes' Association of Australia, which was continued to-day at the Trades Hall, the following motion was…

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To-day's Latest. French and German Versions of the Verdun Fighting. The Allies Seize African Ports. Russians Nearing the Tigris Valley Mr Asquith Going to Ireland. Allies' AEroplanes Bombard Smyrna. British Miners Oppose Conscription

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 12 May 1916 · page 2

A Paris message says: We demolished a German trench for a length of 100 metres, south-eastward of Tahure. A German attack at two in the…

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Coal in

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 13 May 1916 · page 4

In the trial shaft on Mr. T. J. Lane's property, at Coorabin, six miles from Oaklands, in which a seam of black coal was [?] at a depth of 230 feet, there is every indication of large…

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Miners Oppose Conscription

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 May 1916 · page 2

The British Miners’ Federation, by 583,000-votes to 135,000 carried a resolution in opposition to conscription…

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Oaklands Coal Find

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 May 1916 · page 2

Work has been suspended on the coal find on Mr. J. T. Lane's property at Coorabin, near Oaklands, pending a further analysis by the Mines Department…

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Coorabin Coal Find

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 19 May 1916 · page 5

The Coorabin coal find in the principal topic of convocation in the district during the past week or so, and land is being pegged out in all directions, some…

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Oaklands Coal Find

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1916 · page 2

The discovery of coal on Mr. Lane's holding at Oaklands has created a deal of excitement. Last week, we hear, several city folks came up to inspect…

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German Mine Layer Blown Up

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 May 1916 · page 25

A German mine layer was blown Tip at Falstabs, on the southern coast of Sweden, by one of its own mines. One man was killed. Some of the crew were rescued…

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German Biter Bit. Waecked by Own Mine

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 19 May 1916 · page 2

A German mine-laying ship, reports a Copenhagen message, has been blown up off Falslerbo, near Malmo (Sweden) by oue of its own mines…

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Children's Story. After Gold in the Land of Fire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 May 1916 · page 13

When I was consulted in the matter of the Tierra del Fuego scheme I had no intention of being interested beyond an advisory capacity…

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