Welsh Miners. London
At the suggestion of the Government, the Welsh miners are reconsidering their decision to take two days' holidays…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1916
359 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 18
Trouble by Miners. Wollongong Miners Reject Conference Agreement. Sydney
The Northern Colliery proprietors have confirmed a tentative agreement for working the mines. It was considered that in the public interest, strife should be avoided at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Welsh Miners. London
The Welsh miners have reversed their previous decision, and have decided to work during the coming week…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Mediterranean. British Mine-sweeper Sunk. Five Missing. London, Sunday Night
The Admiralty announces that the auxiliary mine-sweeper Clacton was torpedoed and sunk in the Levant on Thursday. Five of the crew are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Hun Poison. Working in South Wales. Miners' Leaders Hits Out. London
Evan Davies, the Welsh miners' leader, in a speech at Ebb Vale (South Wales), said:--Every miners' agent knows that a pro-German element…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rich Gold Find. Best in Tasmania. Hobart
Four miners claim to have found the richest gold discovery in the history of Tasmania, about fourteen miles from Corinna. The reef runs in a width of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Industry. Action by Victorian Cabinet. Melbourne
The Victorian Cabinet has decided to urge the Federal Government not to tax profits derived from mining industry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold. Richest Discovery in Australia. Claim by Hobart Men. Hobart
Four Hobart residents arrived at Burnie last night and claim that they have made the richest discovery in gold in the annals of Australia, and one of the richest in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining at Newton Boyd
Mining operations are in full blast at the Sunday Times gold mine on Barney's Hill. It is situated about three miles north-easterly from the Newton Boyd post office…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Blockade. Pro-german's Gold. and Pro-ally Cabin Boy. Amsterdam Thursday Night
It is reported that the British searched the liner Freidrich the Eighth bound from America to Copenhagen, and found gold valued at £2000, owned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold-mounted Motor Car
The most expensive automobile ever built will be on exhibition in this city during the next few days, says the last issue of the San Francisco…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Trouble. Settled. at Newcastle. Newcastle
At Newcastle: yesterday, the lodge of the Colliery Employees' Federation, decided by a lodge vote to accept the tentative agreement between the colliery proprietors and the Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Mining Industry. and the War-time Profits Bill. Mr. Higgs Says: "Almost Thou Persuadest Me." Melbourne
A deputation of mining representatives which waited on the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Higgs) yesterday pointed out the threatened seriousness of the effects on the mining, industry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Employment- of Enemy Subjects. Miners Inclinations Drastic. Perth
There is a strong inclination amongst the miners at Kalgoorlie and Boulder to take drastic action in restricting the employment of enemy subjects. The employers claim that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alien Labor. Miners' Objection. Perth
At a meeting ot about 1400 members of the Kalgoorlie and Boulder Miners' Union it was decided to refuse to continue work with aliens. They considered that if the practice…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Manager Killed. Bendigo
While inspecting one of the levels at the new Golden Fleece Mine at Bendigo to-day, James Hebbel, manager of the mine, was killed. A large quantity of earth fell from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Italy. Coal Supply Nearly Assured. Enemies Businesses Taken Over. London
In the Commons, the Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman said he was hopeful that Italy was now assured of essential coal supplies, as the result of a conference between himself and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Australia. Working with Aliens. the Miners Union Refuse. Perth
The decision of the West Australian Miners Union not to work with enemy subjects was given effect to on the Associated Mine, Kalgoorlie, to-day, when the men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Lumpers. High Rates of Pay. Sydney
Sydney coal lumpers will in future receive 2s per hour for day work and 3s per hour for night work, thus bringing the rates of pay for bunkering ships in line with the rates paid by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How Uncle Sam Has Gained. Europe's Gold Crosses Atlantic. New York
An analysis shows that before the war the Banks of England, France, Russia and Germany held 680,000,000 dollars more gold than the Banks of…
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