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Southern Highlands · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1912

21 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 2

Lucky Tin Miners

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 2

A part of five miners, including Maura. F. Hansell and George and Patrick Willougbby, of Bungonis, a short time since took up an abandoned…

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Assessment of Mines

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 2

In the High Court of Australia, sitting in Sydney on Thursday, the reserved judgment In the case of J. V. and A. C. Bartlett and Colon…

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The Dairy. Fattening Pigs. Value of Coal

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 3

It is claimed that experiments made at the South-eastern Agricultural Collage (England) have demonstrated that a mixture of coal in the diet of pigs has…

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Coal by the Hundred Weight

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 6

A coal dealers in a provincial town had a large Newfoundland dog of wonderful sagacity named "Rover." Rover spent all his time in the…

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A Reflex of the Coal Strike. Coal Lent to Bowral Council

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 9 January 1912 · page 2

A [?] act on the pars of Ald. [?] who was Mayer of Bowral at the time of the di[?] coal strike, had recently been made the subject of some very [?]…

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In the Days of the Great Gold Rush

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 January 1912 · page 6

In California, during the first mad rush for gold, it chanced that one of a band of miners died rather suddenly, and, having been much…

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Standard of Primary Education. Qualifying Certificate Questions of Public Schools. Gold Watches for the Best Paper on Arithmetic

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 January 1912 · page 3

Recently over 12,000 boys and girls attending the Public Schools were examined in arithmetic, dictation, English, geography, and history, with the…

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Un-english Englishman. Miners and Fishermen

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 January 1912 · page 4

Leaving out the first item, the Cornish least, "Copper, tin and fish," still expresses the hopes of a large number of the inhabitants, who in the course of…

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Bowral Council Coal Trouble

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 2

At last Thursday night's meeting of the Bowral Council the Mayor (Ald. Beavan) replied to Ald. Campbell's question of the previous meeting, relative to coal, by presenting…

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A Goldfields Sketch. the Lady Speculator

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 3

I had just remarked to Sue, "It's too dull for anything. I wish something would happen—a cyclone or an earthquake, anything to relieve the…

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Bowral Council coal Trouble

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 20 February 1912 · page 2

The coal trouble, which has proved such a disturbing element in Bowral municipal circles for some time past, and has also been responsible for a…

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Bowral Coal Trouble

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 3

The unpleasantness which has existed in Bowral municipal circles for some time past, in connection with certain transactions in coal at the time of the coal strike, has at…

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Coal Strike In England

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 March 1912 · page 6

The coal strike is in full swing and [?] colliery employees are idle [?]ing surface men. Look of [?] hampering inann[?]…

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"In a Gold Gasket." the Goldsmith. Artists in Metal

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 15 May 1912 · page 3

"It was resolved at yesterday's meeting of the Court of Common Council that his Majesty the Cham of Tartary be invited to a dejeuner at the…

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Upton Sinclair. Views on the Coal Strike. England Five Years Hence

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 June 1912 · page 4

Mr Upton Sin[?]lair arrived in England a week ago. and on Thursday I Saw him in the House of Commons under the pilotage of Mr. John Burns (said a…

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Exeter Colliery

Robertson Advocate · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 2

A water jacket furnace is, we are informal, to be [?]ected on the old Cu[?]wang copper mine to treat the [?] slag from the old rever[?]stoy fur[?]s. The dump has…

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Fatality at a Mine

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 4 September 1912 · page 6

Two miners, Darcy Tressider and Albert Marks, were buried beneath a mass of stone, which fell from the roof at Wallarah colliery. Catherine Hill…

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"For Turon Gold."

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 19 October 1912 · page 3

Nothing fires the imagination of Australians more than the romance of the gold fields, the herioc days of diggers, when the most adventurous spirits of…

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A Model Gold line

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 10 December 1912 · page 3

A most ingenious and interesting mechanical contrivance, depicting in every detail the workings of a gold mine is at present on exhibition at Messrs. Morris and Co,s rooms…

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Hand-bags. Gold and Precious Stones

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 December 1912 · page 4

In the pocketless age the reign of the band-bag continues (says the "Daily Telegraph"). But the hand-bag of to-day is not extravagant in size;…

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