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Mining & the mines, 1898

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Edison in Iron-Mining

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1898 · page 4

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How They First Found Gold in Klondyke

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 3

THE story of how gold was first discovered in Klondyke, purely by accident, is very interesting. It was in 1894 that three men, while looking for gold,…

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Condition of the Goldfields

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 3

The prophecy of old miners that the wilderness road from the Klondyke back to civilisation will be marked this winter by dead men’s bones (says the…

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Charge or Stealing a Gold Watch and Chain. a Nowra Dentist Robned. a Remand Granted

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 February 1898 · page 2

On Monday morning, at the Nowra Police Court, before Messrs. P. Walsh and C Graham. Js P., William Robertson wan charged with stealing a rolled gold watch, a double…

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stealing a Gold Watch and Chain. Amused Pleads Guilty. Fined £10 or Four Months

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 26 February 1898 · page 2

William Robinson, on bail, was brought up on Thursday moaning, and charged with stealing a rolled gold watch, a gold albert, locket, and a silver sovereign purse: also a gold sleeve…

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Flotsam and Jetsam. Turning Silver Into Gold

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 5 March 1898 · page 2

A correspondent writes to the London "Daily News":—During the past year it has been no secret in Europe and America that Dr. Stephen H. Emmens, of New York,…

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Dreadful Colliery Explosion. Fourteen Men Entombed. All Hope of Rescue Abandoned, Heartrending Scenes at the Pits's Month Recovery of a Body

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 March 1898 · page 2

A Newcastle telegram states that the dudley colliery was, early on Monday morning the scone of what seems to be one of the most appalling colliery accidents that has every taken…

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Dreadful Colliery Accident

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 1

A profound sensation was caused throughout the Newcastle district on Monday when it became known that a series explosion of gas had occurred at the Dudley colliery…

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English Coal

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 1 April 1898 · page 4

ENGLAND’S coal was the subject of an important address by Mr. Leonard Courtney, M.P., before the United Service Institution, in London, on…

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The Modern God. (Likes Suggested by the Accident at the Dooley Mine)

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 5 April 1898 · page 2

The morning papers are read with haste For they fathom the rich man’s dread; And a column in full to the five is given, While a line must suffice for the dead…

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Klondyke Goldfields. (To the Editor.)

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 April 1898 · page 3

Sir,—There is a great deal of mismformation being publication relative to the best route to the Klondyke Goldfields, which will misland Australian prospector unless it is corrected. The…

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A Whiskey Mine

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 4

We've heard of many kinds of mines before—of gold and silver mines, of diamond mines and coal torpedo mines, but it's just lately that we first struck a "whiskey"…

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Klondyke. a Rough Mining Camp

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 April 1898 · page 4

A GENTLEMAN who has returned to Sydney from Skagway, [?] of the door. ways in the Klondyke [?] it as the [?] camp be has ever seen…

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Dredging for Gold

Moruya Examiner · Friday 29 April 1898 · page 3

The following extracts convening dredging for gold be interesting: — From the New Zealand mines report it appears that at Earnscleugh Flat, six man…

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Mining on the Shoalhaven

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 30 April 1898 · page 1

A big thing is being hand in the Braidwood district (says the "Dispatch") in the way of mining enterprise in a new direction, that is dredging for gold on the same…

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Mining on the Shoalhaven

Moruya Examiner · Friday 6 May 1898 · page 3

A big thing is being taken in hand in the Braidwood district (says the “Dispatch”) in the way of mining enterprise in a new direction, that is dredging for gold on the same principles as in…

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He Went to the Rush. a Good Goldfields Yarn

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 7 May 1898 · page 4

Many a good yarn is told by miners of the old digging days in Victoria when money was thrown about like water, and when scarcely a fortnight passed without…

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Warden's Court. at Braidwood. (Before Mr Maitland, Mining Warden)

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 11 May 1898 · page 2

Thomas O'Brien, of Norriga; applied on behalf of H. R. Hodgkinson and Mary M'Ilryde, as their autherised agent, for a suspension of labour conditions for six months on their gold…

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Better than Klondyke. Making Gold Out of Silver

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 20 May 1898 · page 4

THE “ Review of Review ” for April quotes an article from “ Pearson’s Magazine” in which Mr. Fyle [?], so far as he presented to do, the method…

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The Golden Clondike. an Enormous Rush of Gold Seekers Going in Sound Advice From an in Habitant

Moruya Examiner · Friday 20 May 1898 · page 3

In the rush towards the golden fields of the Klondike, there are thousands who are ill-fitted to stand the strain of hardship and exposure, which are inseparable from that…

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