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Mining & the mines, 1906

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Rand Labor Question. Miners and the Chinese. Cheers for the Boers. London, August [?]

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 30 August 1906 · page 2

A mass meeting organised by the Johannesburg Progressive Association in the interests of the mine owners of the Rand was held yesterday at Fordsburg, a suburb in the…

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Mining Bill

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 31 August 1906 · page 2

In the Assembly, Mr. Moore moved the second reading of the Mining Bill. The Minister said that last year the mineral production exceeded seven…

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Badger Found Gold Aline

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 3

According to the " Wilmington Mail," a jobmaster named George, of Santa F[?], New Mexico, has suddenly become a millionaire by a lucky stroke…

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Gold Robbery. " Mother Shipton " Nuggets Stolen. LONDON, Thursday Afternoon

The Temora Star · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 2

Two men broke a window in the Orient Steamship Company's office. Cockspur-street, yesterday and stole two nuggets…

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Parliament. Amending Mining Bill. No Royalty to Owners. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 4

In the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Moore explained the features of the Amending Mining Bill. The measure, the said, would consolidate the existing…

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Mining

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 4 September 1906 · page 3

Walsh's Batlow Dyke Co. are suspending operations for the present. During last week leases embracing over 600 aores have been applied for in the Tooma…

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Welsh Coal Strike. Serious Developments Feared London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 4 September 1906 · page 2

There is a serious dispute in the coal trade in Wales. At Rhymney, in Br[?]knockshire, 6000 miners have gone on strike, and at Macsteg, in…

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Telegraphic News. General Cables. Welsh Miners' Strike. London, Sept. 2

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 4 September 1906 · page 2

Ten thousand more members of the Welsh Miners' Federation have given notion to strike in a month hence, as a protest against the employment of…

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Daring Robbery. New South Wales Gold Specimens Stolen. London

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 September 1906 · page 3

Two men broke a window at the office of the Orient Pacific Steamship Company, in Cockspur-street, Charing Cross, and stole two specimens of…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 6 September 1906 · page 6

A 22 1/2oz. nugget—the largest yet found on the field—was picked out of the wash at the 96 mine (Pitfield, V.) last week. Melbourne Cope's Creek Company's…

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Money Queens. Feminine Plutocrats Who Own Mines and Run Vast Businesses

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 3

The truism that untold riches cannot purchase happiness or peace of mind finds an apt illustration in the life stories of the world's millionaire women. Incessantly…

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Welsh Colliery Trouble

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 2

The majority of the non-unionists at the collieries at Rhymney, in Monmouthshire, and at Macsteg, in Glam-organshire, where extensive strikes are…

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Sensational Mine Robbery. Hannan's Reward Battery Employes Ovewrpowered

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 6

A raid of a sensational character was made on Friday morning on the battery of Hannan's Reward Mine, Kalgoorlie. Three men, employed at the…

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Burned to Death. Fate of Two Miners Supposed Murder

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 3

Early on Sunday morning a fire occurred at Bamganie, a mining district near Meredith (Vic.) in which two miners, members of Kinane's tribute…

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Welsh Colliery Strike. Women Conspicuous Disturbers. Received at 1 A.M. LONDON, Sept. 7

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 2

It is announced that in connection with the Welsh-colliery strike the majority of the non-unionist miners at Rhynmey and Marstig have joined the…

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Fire on the Melbourne Express. a Bag of Coal Alight

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 6

Passengers by the Melbourne express which arrived in Sydney on Saturday morning nearly an hour and ten minutes behind schedule time, tell of an…

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Northern Colliery Trouble. Coal Mines Laid Idle. 3,400 Workmen Affected

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 September 1906 · page 3

As was auticipated, all the collieries in the Maitland district, with the exception of the Abermain mine, were laid idle this morning as a consequence…

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Colliery Trouble

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 11 September 1906 · page 2

The whole of the Maitland collieries have suspended operations, owing to the "dog watch" grievance. As the men refused to work, the proprietors…

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Mining

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 11 September 1906 · page 3

The first clean-up at the New Argalong Gold and Tin Dredging Co's hydraulic sluicing leases at Sandy Creek was finished last week, with…

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Labor for South African Mines. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 September 1906 · page 2

The Johannesburg correspondent of the "Daily News" states that the Government's policy of recruiting labor for the Rand mines from the natives of the…

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