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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

38 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 1 of 2

Coal Strike

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 3

It is believed in Newcastle that the coal wheelers will ignore the order of the Arbitration Court to resume work…

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Newcastle Miners' Dispute Sydney, Tuesday, 10 a.m

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 3

The wheelers at twelve of the principal collieries in the Newcastle district and the miners at ten have deliberately disobeyed the order of the…

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Prospecting for Gold

Manilla Express · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 2

RECENTLY in the correspondence columns of the city press…

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Latest Cables. London, Tuesday. Severe Gold

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 3

An Arctic blizzard was experienced in the United Kingdom and the Continent. The London streets are sheets of ice, Numerous wrecks and loss of…

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Remarkable Gold Find

Manilla Express · Saturday 28 January 1905 · page 4

A remarkable gold find was made 13 miles from Charters Towers 3½ tons of surface stone yielding 26 ounces of gold…

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Undiscovered Coal

The Moree News · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 4

Professor W. Royd Dawking recently gave evidence before the Coal Commission [?] to the existence of workable [?] in [?]-eastern England. [?] investigation…

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Housekeeper. Economising Coal

Manilla Express · Saturday 8 April 1905 · page 3

HINTS on how to economise coal are generally more or less acceptable in the middle-class home, and I gladly pass on a hint given to me a few days ago by one…

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The Romance Or "Old Men" in Mining

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1905 · page 6

The records of engineering hold low more romantic and interesting episodes than the discoveries made in the modern mines of [?] and…

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Electricity From Coal

Manilla Express · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 7

A Chicago inventor, Hugo Jone, is said to have hit upon a scheme of utilising the coal in producing a current, thereby dispensing with boilers, engines, dynamos,…

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Department of Mines and Agriculture, 12th May, 1905

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 4

Sir,-Referring to the petition presonted by you under date 21st March, 1905, from the residents of Boggabille and district, asking for a repeal of the…

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Struggle Over a Coffin. a Fight for Gold

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 5

A dramatic story was Hs[?] to on March 1st at the Edgware Petty Sessions. it concerned a will, and the alleged struggles of a sister to…

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Colliery Explosion

Manilla Express · Wednesday 21 June 1905 · page 2

Owing to an explosion of a Russian colliery 500 people were killed…

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The Secret of the Silver Mine. a Story of the Peruvian War. Chapter I.

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1905 · page 5

"You refuse to give the two men up?" I spoke sternly In a tone Indicating that ontreatles were at an end, and that other moans would be adopted to…

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London's Coal Hole. What It Is Like

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 8 July 1905 · page 6

Before the advent of railways nearly all the coal of London came up the Thames. "Sea coal" was the name of it, and even now thirteen…

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In the Armchair. How Submarine Mines Are Laid. the Way Is [?] Are [?]

The Moree News · Tuesday 11 July 1905 · page 4

There are [?]…

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Gold in Sheep's Teeth

The Moree News · Tuesday 18 July 1905 · page 6

With reference to a paragraph that appeared in our columns (says the '' Daily Telegraph '') a few days ago stating that gold had been found in a…

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Selling Gold Bricks

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 19 July 1905 · page 6

to young fellows who can't afford to be buncoed. It would be a mighty good thing if we could put a lot of the professors at work in the offices…

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Chemical Action on Gold

Manilla Express · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 6

The reputation which gold enjoys as the most unalterable of metals is being undermined by the researches of a number of chemists. A review of recent work, and a…

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His Weight In Gold

The Moree News · Tuesday 15 August 1905 · page 4

The Maharajah of Travancore is an Each Indian Prince. who [?] In silks and muslins and covers himself with ropes of pearls and ornaments of diamonds…

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