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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1915

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Work Resumed Beira Colliery matters. SYDNEY

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 February 1915 · page 3

Work was resumed at the Mount Ee[?]a Colliery this morning, the defaulters having promised' at the meeting last night not to pay the balance…

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CABLEGRAMS. Earthquake Shocks. Yorkshire Mines Affected. One Miner Killed. London

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 February 1915 · page 3

Earthquake shocks at Comshoro, High Milton end Denaby, in Yorkshire resulted in heavy falls earth. The one at Denaby. rendered the coal…

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A Definite-peace Party. Anxiety in Germany. Gold and Silver Surrendered. London

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 February 1915 · page 3

Alfred Arnold, special correspondent of the New York"Herald and London "Express" just returned from a tour of many cities in Germany, says…

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The Price of Milk an Increase Decided On. Coal and Bread Likely to Rise. London

Tweed Daily · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 3

A conference of representatives of the dairy trade bas decided on an increase in price of milk of a halfpenny per quar. It is probable there…

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Coal Supplies for Gas

Northern Star · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—Forty municipalities are urging the Government to undertake steps to increase the coal supplies for gas…

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Explosion in a Mine. Twenty-three Men Killed. Large Number of Rescues

Northern Star · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 5

NEW YORK, Sunday.—Twenty-three miners were killed by an explosion in the Carlisle mine at Fayetteville, West Virginia. One hundred and sixty were…

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Coal Mining Centres. Question of Amalgamation

Northern Star · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 8

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Delegatest from the coal mining centres of N. S. W., Victoria, and Queensland met in the Sydney Trades Hall to-day to consider the question of…

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Coal Mine Flooded. Twenty-two Men Dead

Northern Star · Thursday 11 February 1915 · page 5

VANCOUVER, Tuesday.—Twenty-two men are dead through the flooding of a coal mine at Wellington, Vancouver Island. Abandoned workings filled with…

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Coal Mining Dispute Owners Y[?]kld Temporarily. London

Tweed Daily · Thursday 11 February 1915 · page 2

The West Yorkshire coal owners have conceded to all the demands of the men till the termination of the war…

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Miners Demands Conceded

Northern Star · Thursday 11 February 1915 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The West Yorkshire coal mines have conceded all the men's damands until the termination of the war…

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Germans and Coal Mines. a Threat to Blow Up Mines. London

Tweed Daily · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 3

A Paris correspondent states that the Germans are unable to work the [?]al mines at Pas[?]de Calais. The miners refused to work them owing to…

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Happy Miners

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 3

The secretary of the Minmi Minors Union, which was expelled from the Colliery Employees Federation for entering into a private…

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Miners and the Beer Strike

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 9

The strike against the increased price of beer on the Maitland coal-field, which has been in progress for the past three weeks, has been declared off at Kurri,…

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Nothing of Importance. Mine Gallery Destroyed. London

Tweed Daily · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 3

A Paris official bulletin says that no event of importance was notified on Monday. In the afternoon we blew up before Fay, south-west of Peronne, a…

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Prosperity at Woolwich. a Gold Mine to Workmen

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 5

While the financial strain of war is felt in all parts of the country, Woolwich is happy, for Woolwich lives and thrives on fighting, by land and sea…

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Science Notes. Electric Power From Mines

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 3

At a mine in South Africa, the water supply has to be drawn from a considerable distance, and must, on its way, cross a ridge of some 600ft. high. The…

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Electric Power As a by Product at Mines

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 6

At a mine in South Africa, says "Prometheus," the water supply has to be drawn from a considerable distance, and must, on its way, cross a ridge some 600…

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Sweeping for Mines. Work of the Fishing Fleet

Northern Star · Monday 15 February 1915 · page 8

Manned by Great Britain's deep-sen fishcrmen, hundreds of tiny ve[?]ls are patrolling England's coast from Harwich to the Fentland Firth. From boats in which only…

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Russia's Suprpression of [?] Productivity of Labor Increased the Strain Upon Ballant France Servia's Third War in Three Years. a Steady Supply of Gold

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Lloyd George was loudly cheered, After emphasising Russia's undeveloped resoureces, he said the suppression of alcohol had increased the…

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King of Gold

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 18 February 1915 · page 3

It was when the earth was quite young that Mr. Northwind sat shivering one day in his dark place in the Land of Snow and Ice…

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