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

Mining & the mines, 1909

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King Coal Dethroned. Electrical Process for Iron and Steel

Manilla Express · Saturday 11 December 1909 · page 3

Coal is no longer king in the smelting of iron, for an epoch-making report from Redding, California, says…

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The Very Latest. Coal From the East. Sydney

Manilla Express · Saturday 11 December 1909 · page 2

The Government has ordered larger quantities of coal from abroad, approximtely 50,000 tons. The first shipment is…

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Latest Telegrams The Miners' Strike. SYDNEY

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 December 1909 · page 2

The wharf laborers met this morning and decided by a big majority not to strike at present…

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Latest Telegrams The Miners' Strike Important Decision by the Strike Congress. Men to Prepare to Resume Work. Strike Suppression Bill. a Drastic Measure. Sydney, Friday, 9. a.m

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 December 1909 · page 8

The Strike Congress has decided that the northern, southern and western miners should each make arrangements for the resumption of…

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Coal Consumption

Manilla Express · Wednesday 15 December 1909 · page 2

Of no less magnitude is the task of supplying the city with coal. This State last year consumed 3,048,349 tons of coal, equal to about 10,000…

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The Coal Strike. Sydney

Manilla Express · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 4

Hughes aud Bowling met on the public platform last night at Newcastle, and, as might have been expected a lively meeting with…

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The Miners' Strike

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1909 · page 2

Since we last went to press things have progressed slowly but surely to-wards their inevitable end. The passing of what one unionist…

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A Goldfields Christmas Eve. (Copyright.)

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1909 · page 4

It matters not what high-sounding names are selected by ambitious parents and scaled by the orthodox baptismal rites on infant brows, for in…

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How the Burning of Coal Vitiates the Atmosphere

Manilla Express · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 3

Every ton of coal, it has been found, which is burned uses up 300,000 cubic feet of air and renders it unfit for breathing. Suppose that there were…

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Old Ben Bitmead's Lucky Christmas. The Story of a Big Gold Find at Wattle Gully. An Australian Gold Field's Story

Manilla Express · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 2

For close upon forty years. old Ben Bitmead had spent his Christmas alone, and now he had company-- if the laughing, crowing…

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