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Mining & the mines, 1898

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Sampson's Fleet. Coal and Supplies. Returns to Cuba. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 16 June 1898 · page 2

Rear-Admiral Sampson's fleet, which returned to Key West, has re-coaled and has been largely supplied with ammunition…

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The South Wales Coal Strike. Mr. Ritchie Appealed To. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 16 June 1898 · page 2

Another Appeal has been made to the Right Hon. C. T. Ritchie, President of the Board of Trade, asking him to intervene in the disastrous…

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THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser. This is [?] when freeborn [?] Having in advertise the public, may speak free." Thursday, June 10, 1808. Gold Oe Silver?

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 16 June 1898 · page 2

IN this issue we publish im appeal by the Bimetallic League of Great Britain " to the producers and traders of Australasia upon the exceedingly…

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Alleged Theft of Gold Specimens Accused Committed for Trial

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 17 June 1898 · page 3

AT the police court on Tuesday, before Messrs. S. Murphy. P.M., W. Matchott, J.P., and J. Robinson, J.P., James Dale, on remand, was charged with the larceny of…

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Cable News. the South Wales Coal Trouble. Military Patrol the Mines. Trouble Is Feared. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 June 1898 · page 7

The trouble with regard to "the strike of miners in South Wales ia not yet settled. Five hundred soldiers have been told off to patrol the…

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Telegraphic. Nationalising Coal Mines State Requirements. Mr. Reid Approached. Public Opinion Not Yet Ripe. Sydney, Friday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 June 1898 · page 8

The government have been approached with a view to inducing them to invest in sufficient coal mines to provide for requirements of the…

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Mining and Religion

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 18 June 1898 · page 6
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MR. James Crotty, who died recently, leaving £160,000 to the Roman Catholic Church in Victoria and £100 a year to his wife, to be increased to £600 if she went…

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Welsh Colliers' Strike. Support From Non-associated Miners. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 June 1898 · page 6

Another complication of a remarkable character has taken place in relation to the labor trouble at the South Wales collieries. Some of the…

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The Dudley Mine. Inspected by Experts. Sealing to Be Removed. Newcastle, Friday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 June 1898 · page 8

A party, of experts proceeded to the Dudley Colliery to-day for the purpose of breaking the sealing necessitated by the recent fire. The mine is to be…

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The Gold Mines of Gundagai. (No. 2) Life at Johnston's Hill. and the Mine Works

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 21 June 1898 · page 2

IT has [?] struck me how quietly these mining settlements spring into existence. After the discovery of gold they are as rapid in their growth as mushrooms after…

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Mining Leases

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 21 June 1898 · page 4

FOLLOWING is a return of authorities to mine, locally issued in terms of section 28, Mining Act 1894, and of applications for permission to mine in terms…

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Grong. (From Our Correspondent.) a Mining Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 21 June 1898 · page 2

An accident which terminated fatally, occurred on Friday evening at the Kangaroo Reefs, about 12 miles from here, a young man named Thomas Arthur being the…

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Those Mines the Marblehead's Danger. Nearly Blown Up

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 23 June 1898 · page 2

The American cruiser Marblehead 2000 tons, which with the Texas is guarding with her guns from Spanish attack the camp of American marines…

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Parliament. Opening Ceremony. the Governor's Speech. Federal Alterations. Fiscal Referendum. Land and Mining Matters. Agricultural Extension

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 23 June 1898 · page 4

At noon on Tuesday, amid all the pomp and ceremony, the military display and social fluttering,the Parliament of New South Wales was opened by Lord Hampden…

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State-owned Mines. Deputation to the Premier. an Evasive Reply

The Worker · Saturday 25 June 1898 · page 6

On Friday afternoon a deputation consisting of Messrs. Estell (President, of the Northern Miners' Association), Ritchie (President of the Southern Miners'…

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All Landed. American Troops in Cuba. the Spanish Deceived. Coal Thansports As Decoys. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 25 June 1898 · page 3

The little delay in the landing of the American troops in Cuba has not been without its advantage. Brigadier General Shatter, who is…

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The Spanish Fleet. Damaged and Without Coal

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 28 June 1898 · page 2

The Americans have received important information from a Cuban spy respecting the condition of Admiral Cervera's fleet, which accounts…

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Welsh Colliery Trouble. Intervention Sought. Delegates See Mr. Ritchie. Lord Dunraven Suggests Arbitration. London, Tuesday Afternoon

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 30 June 1898 · page 3

The colliers of South Wales, who [?] are present on strike and on whose [?] behalf Mr. C. T. Ritchie, President of [?] Board of Trade, refused to…

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Bombarding Spanish Ports. American Decision. Schley Under Orders. Egypt Refuses Camara Coal

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 30 June 1898 · page 2

The United States Government has decided to send Commodore Scbley's squadron to bombard the Spanish ports and to pursue Admiral…

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