Colliery Disaster. London, May 25
A GREAT colliery disaster has occurred in the Crow's Nest Colliery Fernie, British Columbia. A collier lighted his pipe…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1902
183 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 4 of 10
Robbery of Concealed Gold
Melbourne, Sunday.—A robbery of 890 sovereigns under extraordinary circumstances was reported on Friday to the police at Ballarat as having been committed at Rokewood Junction. On Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Miner’s M[?]ery. Doctors Consulted—No Relief Gained. Bile Beans taken. A Speedy Cure Results
James Olaen, a miner only 24 years of age and residing at Fish Street, W. Maitland, was at a certain period of his life [?] handicapped in the performance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commandeered Gold
AT the meeting of the Transvaal chamber of mines, held at Johannesburg in April last the president (Mr. Rouliol) made the following statement relative to the value…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gold Yield
The usual return compiled by the Department of Mines shows that the gold yield of this State for the month of May was 16,865 crude ounces, equal to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Heavy Gold Tax
A proclamation has been issued at Pretoria imposing a tax on gold equal to one-tenth of the gold produced after deducting the cost of production and sums…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Australian Gold Rush of 1851
Australia was gradually developing as an agricultural country when, in 1851, an avent occurred Which caused a wild and impetuous rush to Port Philip, or Victoria, as it is now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Suggested Issue of Paper Money.—canada.—paper Biscuits, Paper Milk, and Rag Babies.—three Hundered and Forty Francs to Buy a Franc's Worth.—why Gold Is the True Standard
LATELY there has been some discussion in the federal parliament and in the press on the subject of the Commonwealth issuing paper money with the view of restricting or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cardigan Mine Disaster
AFTER three months search the body of the last vielim of the Cardigan (Vie.) mine disaster, john Hanter, jun., was recovered on Friday. the body was found jammed hand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Araluen Proprietary Gold-Dredging Company
Melbourne, Tuesday.—An extraordinary generals meeting of the shareholders of the Araluon Proprietary Gold-dredging Company, N.L., was held yesterday at Vickery's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mines Under the Ocean
The Chilian coal mines, opened in 1855, seem to be quite pleasant places to work in. The seam of coal runs from the coast line under the waters of the Pacific Ocean, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Mine Manager Stuck Up
Wellington, Monday.—Mr. A. G. Coleman, manager of the Commonwealth mine at Wunluman reports having been stuck up on his way from Wellington to the mine, with the pay money in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Warden's Court
At the above court to-day, before the Police-Magistrate, district warden, James Armstrong applied for a suspension for two months of the labour conditions on his mineral…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Warden's Court
YESTERDAY morning before Mr. W. S. Caswell, mining warden, James Armstrong applied for the suspensions for two months of the labor conditions on his mineral…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Power of Coal
A pound of what we will call average c[?] would be somewhat smaller in size than a man's fist. A pound of this coal, if expended in mechanical work, would give us…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Explosion in a Colliery. London, July 11
An explosion occurred yesterday in the colliery of the Cambria Steel Company's Rolling Mills, at Johnstown, Penusylvania Six hundred miners were entombed, and it is feared that 300 of them…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Strike. 700 Men Thrown Idle
What appears to be a most arbitrary act is reported by Mr. George Nichol[?]on, legal manager of the Outtrim-Howitt Coal Company, whose pit is a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Outtrim Miners' Strike. Important Principle Involved. High-handed Action by the Men
As evidence of the intensity of the feeling. held by the strikers against the three " undesirable" who[?] employment is directly responsible for the existing trouble at…
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