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Mining & the mines, 1913

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Gold for Sawdust Waste

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 6

It has remained for far-away Norway to furnish the timber-merchants of the world with an object-lesson in the utilization of waste, and give…

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£10,000 Gold Theft. Boxes Which Were Pilled with Lead Returned to London

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 1 March 1913 · page 3

After many adventures, duo to Austrian war alarms and German police activities, the two plain wooden cases which were found at Alexandria to be…

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First Steamer to India. Only 31 Tone of Coal Taken for a Voyage Which Took [?] Pate

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1913 · page 4

W[?] wat the first steam voya[?] iron England it [?] accom[?]lishes? This canpot be answered with a[?] degree of certainty for…

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Blackbird with Gold Ring

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 March 1913 · page 4

William Best, a former living near Ballyconnell, co, Cavan, shot recently a blackbird, which had a gold ring on one of its legs. The ring is now worn by…

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Gold for Sawdust Waste

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 22 March 1913 · page 6

It has remained for far-away Norway to furnish the timber-merchants of the world with an object-lesson in the utilization of waste, and give…

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"Silent Doctor." Butcher and Soldier. Big Colliery Practice

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 9 April 1913 · page 4

More details of the extraordinary career of the man calling himself Richard Henry Barber, but whose real name is said to be Harry Virtue, were…

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The Coal Strike

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 12 April 1913 · page 6

The Minister for Labour's proposals for a settlement of the southern coal strike were rejected by the employers, It is believed that the Government…

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The Coal Crisis

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 26 April 1913 · page 2

There is growing uneasiness among the southern miners on strike at the small amount of strike pay distributed…

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Robertson Coal Measures

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 13 May 1913 · page 2

At the request of the Robertson Progress Association, the Minuter for Mines has given approval for Mr. Pitman, the Under Secretary for…

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Robertson Coal Mesasures

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 14 May 1913 · page 2

At the request of the Robertson Progress Association, the Minister for Mines has given approval for Mr. Pitman, the Under Secretary…

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A Funeral in a Mining Camp

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 11 June 1913 · page 6

The following story of a funeral in a mining camp in California is from the Sacramento "Transcript" of June 11, 1850.:—…

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Submarine Mine Mystery

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 June 1913 · page 4

The Newcastle steamship Elmsgarth, which reached Swansea 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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Cobar Copper and Gold Field Report

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 28 June 1913 · page 4

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

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Thirty Hours in Mine. a Wife's Suspense

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 July 1913 · page 3

An experience which does not, happily, fall to the lot of every miner was that of William Davies, an aged collier of Coednant, in Wales, whose strange disappearance in the…

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A South African Mine

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 26 July 1913 · page 4

The daily average number of natives employed on the Premier Diamond during 1912 was 13,363, the total wages of which amounted to £551,321. The…

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World-wide Notes. Record Gold Output for 1911

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 6

The world's gold production of 1911 is estimated approximately at £99,200,000, the greatest in history. It represents on increase of £3,800,000…

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Goldfields to Dock. Grim Drama of Village. a Grief-stricken Party

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 27 August 1913 · page 4

Once more, and probably for the last time, the crowded incidents of that tragedy-besmirched afternoon in Bedlington, when, within the precincts of the [?]looking little hostelry, the Sun Inn, there was enacted a drama…

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Wot for Gertie Millar. Strange Transaction Over Two Gold Bags

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 September 1913 · page 3

Described as a dealer in antiques, William Templeton, 39, of Edgware-road, London, nu commuted for trial at Marlborough-street Court on charges of obtaining two gold bags worth £83 7s from Morris Segal, of…

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Rand's Romance. How the Reef Came. Inland Sea Which Cradled Gold

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 September 1913 · page 3

"Sir Lionel .Phillips Is one of the shrewdest and most successful among the giants of the South African gold-mining Industry; but he has not parted with bis imagination, and in a…

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Mining Town Tragedy

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 September 1913 · page 2

Berlin, Sept. II.—An Innkeeper at Kiausthal, a mining town in the Harz Mountains, was shot dead behind his bar yesterday by two…

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