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Mining & the mines, 1927

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Shows Declared Black Action of Miners Criticised. SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1

The action of the [?]ers in declaring black some [?] he shows in South Coast district [?] criticised by Mr. Perkins, M.P., [?] the Albion…

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Bowls. the Gold Buttons. An Interesting Game

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 11

On Wednesday afternoon, the holders of the gold buttons (Jackson, Jewell, Herron, and Jay) were challenged by Hawke, Chapman, Williams…

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Spent £25,000. Tulloch Silver Mines. Suspension of Labor Conditions Granted

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 3

In the Armidale Wardens' Court on Wednesday, the Tulloch Silver Mining Company applied for supension of labor conditions covering the…

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Doesn't Gold Dig Only on Stage. Actress Plays Same Part in Real Life

The Uralla Times · Monday 10 January 1927 · page 1

New York, Wednesday.—Three men recently met on one of the steamship piers, here. The were bidding bon voyage to…

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Tin Mining Renewed Activity

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 4

The following application with a view to mining for tin, were heard "before the Mining" Warden (Mr. J. E. McCulloch) yesterday…

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Mew Guinea Gold. Bisappointed Men Return

The Uralla Times · Thursday 13 January 1927 · page 6

Many persons who expected to find the New Guinea goldfield an Eldoado, were badly disillusioned and 13 of them returned to Sydney by the…

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Awarded Gold Medal. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 6

Stanley Gibbs, hero of the Port Hacking shark tragedy, has been awarded the gold medal of the Royal Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society…

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Beach Mining Development Big Outlay for Bred[?]es Equipment

The Uralla Times · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 4

In a recent interview with [?] the parties interested in the working of the beach sands between the Clarence and Richmond Rivers we…

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"Little Gold Mines."

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 January 1927 · page 8

An inquiry was held before Mr. F. CM. Bourne. I.M., at Toowoomba into the circumstances surrounding the fire which destroyed the Gladstone Hotel,…

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Sunken Treasure The Laurentic's Gold

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 18 January 1927 · page 3

I When the Laurentic was sunk by a German submarine, in 1917, off Lough Swihy Northern Ireland, with a loss of 300 lives, with her went £5,500,006…

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New Mine-sweeper Arrives Engine Trouble Develops AUCKLAND

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 18 January 1927 · page 1

The mine sweeper Wakakura, the latest addition to the New Zealand naval squadron, arrived after seven months voyage from England. Her…

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Torrington Mining Activity

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 20 January 1927 · page 3

Work at the Morven mine is progressing favour[?]. The [?]ttery building is almost complete Engine, stamper boxes and dynamo and motor concrete…

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Blown to Pieces in Emmaville Mine. Struck Unexploded Charge

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 11

A terrible accident occurred at Porter's Lock Sloy mine, about 14 unites from Emmaville, at about noon on Monday, when Stanley…

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Blown to Pieces. in Emmaville Mine. Struck Unexploded Charge

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 13

A terrible accident occurred at Porter's Loch Sloy mine, 14 miles from Emmaville, at noon on Monday, when Stanley Turner, of Torrington,…

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British Coal Strike. Cost Four Times As Much As Boer War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 7

Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at a Liberal dinner, said the present British coal stoppage bad cost the country four times as much as the Boer War…

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Mining News Mishap to Bucket Dredge

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 2

The Bullock Swamp bucket dredge had the misfortune to spring a leak whilst crossing a bar, and sank. Operations have been held up for a week…

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A Great Gold Haul Through Medium of Swagman The Founding of Mt. Morgan

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 4

The atmosphere of the race course which pervades the town this week is conducive to the recall of many incidents associated with the big £1000…

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"That's Poison!" Young Man's Suicide Gold Lease At Dalmorton Cyanide With Glen Innes Label

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 4

Inmates of the Empire Hotel, Inverell, particularly the licensee, Mr. Tale, received a shock on Sunday night when a young man named…

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Mine Explosion Death of Mr. Stanford Turner Funeral At Torrington

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 8

The funeral of the late Stanford Turner, of Bismuth, took place at Torrington on Wednesday. After a short service in All Saints Church of…

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Light in a Mine Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 1 February 1927 · page 1

The charge against Joseph Rees, manager of the East Greta Colliery, of having allegedly allowed naked lights to be used in the safety light…

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