East Greta Colliery Disaster. Public Meeting in the Council Chamber
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 December 1898 · page 4
Last evening a public meeting, called by advertisement, was held in the Council Chamber, Town Hall, for the purpose of making arrangements to provide for the wants of the families…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Trade
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 December 1898 · page 2
AN unanimous vote of the Delegate Board of the Miners Association passed a recommendation to the lodges to accept the employers offer of 3d per ton advance on the present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Notes
The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 December 1898 · page 2
The Mount Bischoff (Tasmania) mine's 260th dividend of 5s per share, paid on November 26, represented a sum of £3000. This brings the total…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Production of Gold
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 December 1898 · page 2
The extraordinary increase in the world's production of gold is attracting much attention, says the commercial editor of the Argus, because, for one thing, it means that after the currency…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The East Greta Colliery Disaster
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1898 · page 5
The work of timbering the tunnel at the East Greta colliery was concluded on Monday and since then a quantity of the conglomerate, debris, and timber choking up the tunnel has been removed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Trade
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1898 · page 4
AN unanimous vote of the Delegate Board of the Miners Association passed a recommendation to the lodges to accept the employers offer of 3d per ton advance on the present…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →East Greta Colliery Disaster. Progress of Rescue Work. Work at the Mine in Full Swing. the Relief Fund
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1898 · page 2
The work of removing the fallen debris and timber from the tunnel at East Greta is proceeding slowly but satisfactorily. At first the stuff taken out was very sticky, and did not leave the scoop…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Items
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1898 · page 6
The Queensland gold yield for November was 80.076oz., a comparative increase of 2O38oz. The Alpine dredge has resumed operations near Cromwell, N.Z. after an overhaul, and is again on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →How Entombed Miners Met Death
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1898 · page 12
A mining story would be considered incomplete. without a harrowing description of the hero's sufferings during au underground catastrophe. People expect it, and never doubt that tho sensations of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Alleged Discovery of Payable Gold
The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 10 December 1898 · page 2
The Tamcorth News is responsible for the following paragraph:—A discovery of what is believed will turn out to be payable gold at a spot not more than four miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Amid the Snow. Book Two. Chapter V.— (Continued.)
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1898 · page 9
Looking ahead at this moment it seemed as if the river were approaching a solid wall of rock through which there was no egress. As soon as they were well around the bend,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Upper Hunter P. and A. Association Deputation to the Minister for Mines and Agriculture
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 December 1898 · page 2
ON Thursday last Mr. R. G. D. Fitz Gerald, M.F., introduced a deputation to the Minister for Mines and Agriculture, He was accompanied by Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining in Western Australia
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 December 1898 · page 3
English mining companies connected with mining in Western Australia have represented to Mr. E. H. Wittenoom, the Agent-General for Western Australia, that it will be impossible to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Upper Hunter P. and A. Association. Deputation to the Minister for Mines and Agriculture
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 14 December 1898 · page 2
MR. R. G. D. FITZ-GERALD, M.P., on Thursday (8th December, 1898) introduced a deputation from the Upper Hunter District to Mr. J Cook,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Gold Fields
Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 December 1898 · page 2
REPRESENTATIONS are repeatedly made to the Department of Mines and Agriculture against the alienation of Crown lands in close proximity to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Notes
The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 December 1898 · page 3
IN the Wardens Court, this morning, the hearing of an application by W. Towns for the suspension of the labor conditions on a lease at Omadale…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letter to the Editor. Gold and Produce
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 December 1898 · page 5
SIR,—In your issue of the 9th inst, appears an extract from the Argus, the pith of which is contained in the sentence; "With a superabundance of gold...prices and likely to rise." You…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining in Victoria. a German Opinion
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 December 1898 · page 2
According to a newspaper extract which the Minister of Mines has received, the press of Germany is calling attention to the mining resources of Victoria as a profitable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Lumpers' Strike
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 21 December 1898 · page 2
The coal lumpers' strike has ended in a victory for the men. The master stevedores, have had to abandon their "Bureau," and encourage the men in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →East Greta Colliery Disaster. Nearing the End
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 December 1898 · page 2
The shifts are still working day and night in the tunnel at East Greta Colliery removing the fallen conglomerate, timber, and debris. The work is of a tedious nature, and progress is necessarily slow…
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