The Dudley Coal-miners' Strike.—some Observations Thereon.—making a Living in the South Coast Mines by Working Four Days in the Fortnight, or Two Per Week.—in What Other Occupation Can Men Do This?
Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 8 September 1897 · page 2
THE lock-out at the Dudley colliery, Newcastle, which the proprietors have closed because the miners would not consent to a reduction of 5d. per ton…
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Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 8 September 1897 · page 2
MR. EDITOR,—I notice in your issue of 30th August an article over the signature of H. F. Glennie wherein that gentleman refers to a statement made by some old…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 September 1897 · page 4
CAPTAIN'S FLAT, Tuesday.—The Lake George United Company has started smelting, and three furnaces are in full blast and working satisfactorily. The furnaces have been closed down during the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Proposed Mining Undertaking at Bungonia
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 September 1897 · page 2
WRITING with reference to the above, under date 8th September, a correspondent says :—Mr. Arthur J. Boncher, engineer for the United Australian Exploration Co., arrived hero to-day with a…
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Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 September 1897 · page 4
MR. EDITOR,—Kindly allow me space to make a few further remarks anent the above vexed question, and more particularly on the letter signed James…
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Goulburn Herald · Monday 13 September 1897 · page 2
MR. ARTHUR J. BOUCHER, engineer for the United Australian Exploration Co., has arrived at Bungonia with a surveyor to check the original survey of water-race and dam,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Leases Cancelled
Goulburn Herald · Monday 13 September 1897 · page 2
The following gold leases were cancelled on Friday for non-payment of rent, and are now available for occupation:—C. A. Kolhardt, 4a., Inverary; M. Stevenson, 4a.,…
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Goulburn Herald · Monday 13 September 1897 · page 2
SHORTLY after six o'clock yesterday morning symptoms of fire were observed in the vicinity of Darling's shaft on the Broken Hill Proprietary mine, and subsequently the outbreak was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Frogmore Mines
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 4
The recent rains have enabled Mr. Mobbs to proceed with crushing operations at the battery, which has been vigorously at work for the past 10 days, and we believe with very satisfactory results…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 4
YASS, Saturday.—Crooker and party, at Nanima, have opened another reef 20 chains from the present workings, which promises to average 5oz. to the ton. —Bywong, Saturday.—A rush is likely to set in at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Strike in Pennsylvania. London, Sept. 13
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 2
The Sheriff of Coleraine declares that the strikes were a desperate lot of Poles and Hungarians, who knocked him into a ditch and trampled upon him. He further asserts that they disregarded a volley…
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The Yass Courier · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 3
Some 50 of the miners engaged in the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine on Sunday were overcome by the fumes from the hurtling timbers of the mine, which had caught…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colliery Strike in the United States. London, Sep. 13
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 2
The colliers on strike at Pittsburg, Ohio, Indiana, and Virginia have decided to resume work, a compromise in the hewing rate having been arrived at on the basis of 65 cents per ton…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 4
CAPTAIN'S FLAT.—In the northern section of the Lake George Mines, Ltd., a great many men have been put on of late, and the stopes are now being opened up in a systematic manner. All the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in a Mine.—Three Men Suffocated
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 4
BROKEN HILL, Sunday.—A little over two years ago, on a Sunday, the startling intelligence was flashed through to the various colonies that the underground timbers in Block 11 of the Proprietary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Strike in Pennsylvania. Officers Fire Upon the Mob. London, Sept, 11
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 4
Advices have been received in London to the effect that a serious conflict with colliery strikers has taken place in the United States, resulting in much loss of time…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Yukon Goldfields. London, Sept. 13
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 2
The River Yukon is frozen over, and the conveyance of supplies to the Klondyke Goldfields by this route has consequently been stopped. There is a great scarcity of provisions on the fields,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Yukon Goldfields. London, Sept. 11
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 4
Intelligence has reached London to the effect that the mining population at Dawson City, the centre of the Yukon goldfields, is threatened with famine. The largest stores are closed and their stocks are…
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Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 15 September 1897 · page 2
UNDER the above heading there has recently been some correspondence in this paper in which Mr. C. R. Styles of Bungonia took part; and in our issue of the 8th instant a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire in the Broken Hill Mine
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 September 1897 · page 4
Reassuring news continues to come from underground at the Broken Hill Proprietary mine. The general manager stated on Tuesday that good progress had been made in blocking off and confining…
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