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Mining & the mines, 1911

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Mining Disaster. 100 Men Suffocating. Heroic Rescuers Killed. Rome

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 October 1911 · page 2

There is no hope to-night of rescuing a hundred sulphur miners caught by a cave-in following a fire in Trabonella, Sicily. Five different attempts were…

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Coal for Italy

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 October 1911 · page 2

The Italian Government has ordered 150,000 tons of Welsh coal for war purposes…

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MINING. Adelong Items

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 24 October 1911 · page 2

THE drives and stopes in the Lady Clare mine on the Donkey Hill line of reef are on the richest ore that has ever been met in the mine, and it is…

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Financial Crisis. Scarcity of Gold in Turkey. Constantinople

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 October 1911 · page 2

Owing to the political situation a grave financial crisis is imminent Several failures of important houses have occurred. A bank at Mytilene…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 26 October 1911 · page 23

Poseidon Alluvial Company in Tarnagulla district, V., cleaned up for the last fortnight 86 fathoms of wash dirt for the big yield of 202oz. gold, as against 116…

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Machine-cutting of Coal. Invincible Colliery Wages Award

The Worker · Thursday 26 October 1911 · page 26

The Western Collieries Wages Board made an award last week in regard to the wages to be paid in connection with the machine-cutting of coal at the Invincible…

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Balmain Colliery Dispute. Manager's Evidence Before Wages Board

The Worker · Thursday 26 October 1911 · page 28

A second sitting of the Balmain Colliery Board was held on Monday, Judge Edmunds in the chair. Evidence was given by Alfred…

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Gold Dust

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 27 October 1911 · page 3

Opportunity is the cream of time. The more you say, the loss people remember. A mother's tears are the same in all…

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Mining. Adelong Items

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 27 October 1911 · page 3

The drives and stops in the Lady Clare mine on the Donkey Hill line of reef are on the richest, ore that has ever been met in the mine, and it is…

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Good News For Adelong. Big Mining Venture

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 27 October 1911 · page 2

Mr. G. Williams, manager for the reputed and extensive speculator, Mrs Butty North, who is the owner of great coal mines at Wollongong, was…

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Confiding Speculator. a Mining Transaction. "Some People Believe Anything." "Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 October 1911 · page 4

A man named Keith Maitland Gibson was committed for trial on a charge of having falsely pretended to James Canning that he had the…

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Strike at Port Kembla. a Serious Position. the Mining Trouble. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 October 1911 · page 2

A serious strike was commenced yesterday at the Eletropytic Works, Port Kembla, where the whole of the employees, with the exception of the…

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News From the Capital. Sidney, Monday. Mining Sensation

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 31 October 1911 · page 2

James O'Grady was arrested in West Australia on a charge of having caused the explosion at Collie mine. Sensational revelations are anticipated…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 2 November 1911 · page 22

The Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Thomas) has received from the Acting Administrator of the Northern Territory the following telegram: "Chief Warden…

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Parliament. Murrumbidgee Irrigation Settlement. Miners As Farmers. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 November 1911 · page 2

Mr. John Miller asked the Secretary for Works—(1) Is it possible for energetic working men with only £100 capital to obtain homes on the…

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Railway Smash at Picton Lakes. Melbourne Mail and Stock Trains Collide. Mine Persons Injured. Three Engines and Three Cars Derailed

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 November 1911 · page 3

The most sensational smash which has occurred on the railway lines in New South Wales for some years, took place at Picton Lakes, 59 miles from…

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News and Notes. Miners as Farmers

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 2

MR. JOHN MILLER asked the secretary for Works—(1) It is possible for energetic working men with only £100 capital to obtain homes on the…

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Gold!!

The Worker · Thursday 9 November 1911 · page 19

AUSTRALIA: "Bravo, Andrew! If this is the result of the reckless finance and warton extravagance your 'Liberal' critics accuse you of by all means let it continue!"…

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Navy to Test Australian Coal

The Worker · Thursday 9 November 1911 · page 29

The Commonwealth Executive, in response to a request from the British Admiralty has authorised the purchase and shipping to England of 50 tons of…

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The Japanese Through Australian Eyes. a Menace to Australian Coal Trade. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 9 November 1911 · page 5

Mr. W. A. Firth, manager of the Southern Coal-owners' Agency, who returned to-day, after a trip to China and Japan, says that the Japanese are…

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