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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1926

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Thursday Dec. 31st, New Year's Eve. "Gold and the Girl."

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 January 1926 · page 2

6000 feet with popular BUCK JONES as an insurance detective, but his only insurance is his good six shooter. A story of gold and the…

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Redhead Colliery Disaster

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 2

Another victim of the Redhead colliery explosion, named Arthur Butterworth, aged 55, of New Lambton, died at the Wallsend Hospital…

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His Victim's Gold Betrayed a Murderer

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 4

How a murderer's squandering of the money of his victim led to his arrest was described at the Marne Assizes (France), when Andree…

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Labour Conditions on Mining Lease

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 March 1926 · page 4

At the Mining Warden's Court at Queanbeyan this morning, before Mr. Williams, a complaint was made by L. Theo. H. Cooper that the labour…

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Gold Found by New Way

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 April 1926 · page 4

A claim that gold reefs can be divined with wireless instruments is being carefully investigated by prominent miners of Bendigo and Maldon…

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More Trouble in Coal Trade

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 April 1926 · page 1

Judging by the feelings of the men at the colliery engine-drivers' aggregate meetings at Weston and Newcastle, it is considered almost…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 2

All application, by William Edmune Douglas for authority to enter and search for gold near Major's Creek came before the Mining Warden, Mr…

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Mining Applications

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 2

The following applications have been lodged with the local Mining Registrar:—George Wright, mining lease of 40 acres (M.L. 122), 44 acres…

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The Coal Crisis

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 April 1926 · page 2

Efforts have been made to reach a settlement of the engine—drivers' dispute. A meeting of the special tribunal will be held to-morrow…

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British Coal Strike Mediation Pails

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 May 1926 · page 3

Officially the con I strike started at midnight on Saturday. Upwards of a million operatives will be affected. "Never has a Government made…

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British Coal Strike

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 May 1926 · page 3

The British coal strike lias now reached a deadlock. The owners have sent a long letter to the Prime Minister, objecting his proposals for…

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The Coal Strike

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 May 1926 · page 6

The split between the officials of the Industrial Workers' Union (Miners' Branch) and the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's…

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Latest Cable News. Miners' Strike

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 May 1926 · page 2

The miners are preparing for a fight to a finish. Although this is the twenty-third day of the stappage is not a fraction nearer than before…

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The Goldfield Murders Important Discovery

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 May 1926 · page 2

After days of ceaseless activity the detectives have made a valuable discovery in connection with the murders of Inspector Walsh and…

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Latest Cable News British Coal Strike

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1926 · page 2

A Royal proclamation has been gazetted declaring a continuance of the State Emergency Act owing to the continued coal stoppage. Fresh…

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Telegraphic News Sydney Monday, 4 p.m. Coal Strike

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1926 · page 2

No change in the coal strike took place over the week-end. Although the engine-drivers and firemen still maintain that there can be no change…

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Soviet Gold

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 June 1926 · page 2

An official protest has been sent to the Soviet Government regarding the sending of money to assist the strike movement in Great Britain. The…

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Coal Strike Ends Work on

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 June 1926 · page 2

The Minister for Mines and Labor (Mr. Baddeley) received a telegram from Weston on Wednesday, stating that at an aggregate meeting of the…

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Local & General News Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 June 1926 · page 2

The syndivate working the reefs at Bell's Creek have practically cleaned out the main shaft and the various stopes. In the meantime samples…

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Latest Cable News the Coal Crisis

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 June 1926 · page 2

Referring to the coal crisis, Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of State fir India, declared that if driven by necessity members of the Cabinet would…

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