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Mining & the mines, 1913

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Sailing Vessel Strikes Mine CONSTANTINOPLE

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 June 1913 · page 2

A sailing vessel was blown up by a floating mine at Smyrna and it is believed that serious loss of life has occurred but the number of victims…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 19 June 1913 · page 25

The great Lucknow Consols Ltd. (Napoleon Reef, N.S.W.) has been granted a month's suspension of labor conditions…

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Water in Colliery. Seven Miners Drowned. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 19 June 1913 · page 2

A sudden rush of water at the Cranhouse colliery at Rotherham caused the Geath of eight persons by drowning. while several other had…

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Mining Fatalities LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 June 1913 · page 2

Eight miners were drowned to-day by a sudden inrush of water at a mine in Yorkshire. While a number of miners at…

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Baby Mine

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 20 June 1913 · page 3

Baby mine, with blue eyes tender, And a brow so smooth and white, And a soul that e'en is whiter Than a ray of purest light…

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Submarine Mine Mystery

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 20 June 1913 · page 7

The Newcastle steamship Elmsgarth, which reached Swarsea from the Black Sea, reported that the captain was informed by the British consulate at Constantinople that two submarine mines had been lost in the…

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Carpathia Tin Mining Co

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 20 June 1913 · page 4

The mine manager reports for week ending June 13 as follows:— No. 1 Shaft.—Since last repot this shaft has been sunk a further…

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Gold Exports. Huge Decrease. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 June 1913 · page 2

There has been a tremendous, falling off in the gold exported from Australia since the beginning of the present year…

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A Boy Prospector Gold Discovered at Trunkey, Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 June 1913 · page 5

The seven-year-old son of a prospector at Trunkey named M'Kellum was helping his father, when he pounded up a plece of stone which the…

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Cable News. Another Race Tragedy. the Gold Cup Interfered With. a Suffragist's Madness. Cambridge Student Rushes on Course. Jockey's Narrow Escape. Assailant's Skull Fractured His Condition Hopeless. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 June 1913 · page 2

During the running of the Gold Cup race at the Ascot meeting, Tracery, the second favorite, was leading when six furlongs from home…

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Colliery Disputes. Trifles Cause Strikes. Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 June 1913 · page 2

The Elsmore Vale colliery and half of the Co-operative colliery were thrown idle to-day owing to a strike among the wheslors at the former…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 26 June 1913 · page 21

The Illawarra-colliery companies' agreement with the miners expires in August, and the miners' delegate board has been meeting recently to consider the…

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Industrial Strife. Collieries Idle. Over 1000 Men on Strike. Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 June 1913 · page 2

Seaham No. 1 colliery, in the West Wallsend district, was thrown idle today through the wheelers going on strike…

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Mr. Justice Heydon Again. Lectures the Northern Miners

The Worker · Thursday 26 June 1913 · page 23

In every recent case hoard before Justice Heydon, of the N.S.W. Industrial Court, the learned judge apparently considered it his duty to deliver a long homily on…

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Mining

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 2

Last week that well-known man in [?]ng circles, both in Sydney and Melbourne, Mr. H. E. A. Miller, paid Tumut a visit as principal broker in the…

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Cobar Copper and Gold Field Report

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 3

The report on the Cobar Copper and Gold Field, Part. [?] by E. C. Andrews, B.A., F.G.S., Geological Surveyor, has just been issued under the…

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Miners Strike. Trouble Spreading. Higher Pay Wanted. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 2

The colliery troubles in the New castle district are spreading. The Scah[?] No.2 colliery is idle to-day wing to the wheelers striking for…

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Miners 'Strike. Trouble Spreading. Higher Pay Wanted. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 2

The colliery troubles in the Newcastle district are spreading. The Seabam No. 2 Colliery is idle to-day, owing to the wheelers striking for…

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German Gold Reserve Berlin, Friday

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 June 1913 · page 5

The Berlin Imperial Bank gold reserve is £55,745,000 sterling. The amount ia being steadily increased by a systematic restriction of gold payments…

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Germany Gold Reserves. Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1913 · page 4

The German Imperial bank's gold reserve new totals £55,745,000. This sum is being steadily increased by a systematic restriction of gold…

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