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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1908

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The Hero of the Mine. Coroner's Warm Tribute

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 July 1908 · page 3

Professor Redmayne on Saturday, [?]th April, concluded the Home Office inquiry into the causes of the recent colliery disaster at Hamstead, near…

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Gold and Mineral Leases

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 2

Particulars are given of the Gold and Mineral Leases in force in the several mining district on the 30th June last. The following are in the Braidwood district:—Robert Sands, 40a, 60s, 40a…

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A Day of Reckoning or Better Than Gold. (Copyright.) Part Ix

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 4

"A month's a long time," she laid, brightly. "Yes, to the young, but it passes quickly when we reach middle life…

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State Coal Mine

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 August 1908 · page 2

Sir Thomas Bent, the Premier of Victoria, is considering the advisability of establishing a State coal mine, and in the meantime he will not permit the issue of leases for the…

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A Day of Reckoning or Better Than Gold. (Copyright.) PART X.

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 August 1908 · page 4

She drew herself up proudly. "Then you are mistaken. I came here almost at once, and there isn't a man, woman, or child that can say…

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Miners' Eight-hour Bill

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 August 1908 · page 4

All the Mines Regulation Acts which have been passed in Great Britain hitherto have been designed for the promotion of safety, but the Eight-hour…

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Mountains of Gold

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 12 August 1908 · page 6

According to old legends, exist in the fabled land of El Dorado; but all the gold in this mar[?] would not [?] you for the loss of health and life, an likely to happen as the result…

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More Precious Than Gold

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 15 August 1908 · page 3

I Snake venom is found useful in medicine, and has a valued place in several departments of the mechanical arts and sciences…

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A Day of Reckoning or Better Than Gold. Part Xi. (Copyright.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 15 August 1908 · page 4

Jabez Armytage nodded in a surly fashion, and Luke seated himself, taking a rapid survey of his companion, he decided not beat about…

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Colliery Disaster in Lancashire

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 August 1908 · page 2

A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in No. I Maypole Colliery, Abram, Lancashire, on Tuesday, resulting, it is feared, in the loss of 76 lives. The…

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Mining Fatality at Broken Hill

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 August 1908 · page 2

A FATALITY occurred on Thursday morning at the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, by which Thomas Hopkins, a miner, lost his life…

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Mountains of Gold

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 August 1908 · page 2

According to old legends, [?] in the fabled land of El Dorado; but all the gold in this marvellous land would not compensate you for the loss of health and life, so likely to happen as the result…

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A Day of Reckoning or Better Than Gold. (Copyright.) Part Xii. Chapter Xxvii. Laura Thinks She Is in Lock

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 August 1908 · page 4

Next morning Jabez Armytage woke to the fact that he had done a foolish thing when he turned his daughter out of the house. There…

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A Day Reckoning or Better Than Gold. (Copyright.) Part Xiii

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 August 1908 · page 3

The next morning Betsy was washing the breakfast things in a listless fashion. Her heart was not in her work, for she was thinking of…

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More Colliery Disasters

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 1 September 1908 · page 2

A FIRE in the main shaft of the Shawfield Mine, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, demolished the pithead framework buildings. Eighty men…

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Coal Tar--the Most Protean Substance in the World

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 5

Speaking recently before the Society of Chemical Industry, Mr. H. Schweitzer summarized a number of the products of the coal-tar industry. Since…

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The Brand of Cain. (Copyright.) a Vivid Romance of the English Coal Mines. Chapter I. Sed Wooer and Brown Hebe

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 September 1908 · page 3

On a certain bright though somewhat showery afternoon in spring, in the closing decade of the nineteenth century, a miner was walking along…

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The Brand of Cain. a Vivid Romance of the English Coal Mines. Part Ii. Introductory. (Copyright.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 19 September 1908 · page 3

Mr. Elijah Mosston is a wealthy colliery owner and self-made man in the mining village of Milnes Cross. He is a widower, and his…

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The Brand of Gain. (Copyright.) a Vivid Romance of the English Coal Mines, Introductory

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 26 September 1908 · page 4

Mr. Elijah Mosston is a wealthy Colliery owner and self-made man in the mining village of Milnes Cross. He is a widower, and his…

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London's Coal-hole. What It Is Like

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 September 1908 · page 3

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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