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Riverina · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1927

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Search for a Youth Miners Lose £700 Wages Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 4

The missing nineteen-year-old [?] [?]raham arrived at Bowenfels on Wednesday night in distressed condition. He turned up at the Royal Hotel…

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Mining Boom. Gold in the Mountains. Will It Be a Second Reno?

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 27 June 1927 · page 3

Have Landers and party come on to a second Reno? That is the question mining men are now asking. It maybe, but certain it is the find now…

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How George Rice Found His Mine

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 27 June 1927 · page 3

Recently Jack Drayton, in "Smith's Weekly," in writing up how fortunes by gold hunters were accidentally discovered, cited the case of the late…

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Prisoners' Strike Ends Three Days Down Mine New York

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 June 1927 · page 2

A message from Lansing, (Michigan) says that the prisoners who struck in a coal mine, refusing to come to the surface until they were supplied with…

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Gundagai Mining Boom

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 2

Have Landers and party come on to a second Reno? That is the question mining men are now asking. It may be, but certain it is the find now…

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Items of News Gold at Gundagai

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 2

Reports from Gundagai state that a valuable discovery of gold has been made on the Kimo Range. It is believed that the prospectors have again…

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Mining Boom a Rush for Claims

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 5

Since rumors of a recent gold-find in the Kimo Hills began to circulate a few weeks back there has been considerable activity in mining circles…

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Mining Dispute Large Damages Claimed Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 June 1927 · page 5

The White Range (Central Australia) Gold Mine No-Liability, took out a Supreme Court writ to-day claiming the transfer of a gold…

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Coal Strike. in African Mines General Labor Unrest Capetown, June 20

The Daily Express · Thursday 30 June 1927 · page 2

Fears of native troubles in South Africa owing to inflammatory speec[?] of officials of Native Trade Unions culminated In a lighting strike of…

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Mechanics and Miners Trouble at Newcastle Newcastle Wed

The Daily Express · Thursday 30 June 1927 · page 2

Open warfare between the colliery mechanics and miners was declared to-day when a member of the Mechanics Union refused to take miners…

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Mechanics and Miners Trouble at Newcastle NEWCASTLE

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 30 June 1927 · page 1

Open warefare between the colliery mechanics and miners was declared yesterday, when a member of the Mechanics' Union refused to take…

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Rich Gold Discovery Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 July 1927 · page 3

A sensational gold discovery has been made at Dwyer's Crook mine, near Moruya. An assay has given the phenomenal return of 9oz. 12dwt. to the…

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New Guinea Gold. Adelaide Man's Success

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 11 July 1927 · page 3

Mr. W. W. Weidenback, A.S.A.M., of Adelaide, who has been in New Guinea for 10 months, part of which time was spent on the goldfields, has…

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Coal Up! Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 12 July 1927 · page 1

The northern collieries have fixed the price of coal at: Large, 25/6; medium, 24/; small, 20/. The general manager of the Sydney…

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State Mine Idle Lithgow

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 12 July 1927 · page 4

The State colliery is idle over a dispute about the skips, but the strike is not likely to be of long duration…

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British Labor Seamen and Miners New Industrial Peace Union London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1927 · page 6

Considerable bitterness has been [?] in Labor, circles as a resuit of the executive of the Seamen's Union subscribing £10,000 to assist in the…

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Wagga Gold Cup Record Entry of 56 Heroic and Amoun[?] Included

The Daily Express · Wednesday 13 July 1927 · page 4

The entries for the two principal handicaps at the Wagga Gold Cup Meeting on May 4 and which closed at 9 o'clock last evening…

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Murder of Mr. O'higgins Body Lying in State Remarkable Scenes Mine Youths Arrested Dublin

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 July 1927 · page 2

Remarkable scenes were witnessed at the lying in state of Mr. O'Higgins, Vice-President and Minister for Justice and External Affairs of the Irish…

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The British Budget Merriest Tax Collector Since Robin Hood No Feigning of Humility and Penitence Chancellor Discloses Big Deficit Due Britain’s Big Coal Strike to London, April 12

The Daily Express · Wednesday 13 July 1927 · page 1

The Budget White Paper shows revenue, £631,830,000; expenditure, £833,390,000 and surplus £1440-000…

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British Coal Industry Low Wages and Unemployment Labor's Complaint London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 July 1927 · page 1

There was a long debate in the House of Commons to-day on the situation in the coal trade, the Opposition directing attention to the…

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