Colliery Troubles. At Hobburn and Stanford-Merthyr
The Hebburn colliery was thrown idle on Monday owing to allegations of unsafety made by minors. A large meeting was held on Sunday, at which…
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Mining & the mines, 1907
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Under the Tariff. Immense Increase in Mining Costs
Mr J. W. Kirwan, formerly member for Kulgoorlie in the House of Representatives, and who has just arrived in Melbourne from West Australia,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Price of Coal. Effect on Southern Collieries
The announcement that the northern miners have asked the northern collierv-owners to raise the price of coal to Hs a ton will probably have the effect of a demand being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pay at the Collieries
The customary fortnightly pay was distributed at the South Maitland Collieries to-day. At East Greta and Stanford-Merthyr, the sum of £4539 19s was disbursed…
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Aa the result of. Mr,. Bent's oromised. investigation into the ventilation of mines, attention will probably be direct to the Gilday exhauster, invented' by Mr. J. J. Gilday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hebburn Difficulty. Inspecting the Mine. Perfectly Free From Gas. Hebburn
With respect, to the machine difficulty at Hebburn Colliery, an inspection of the mine was made this morning by Messrs; A. A. At kinson chief inspector of collieries; W…
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As the result of the ballot taken amongst the Ballarat miners they have decided not to come out on strike. the New Hartley shale mine at Airly has…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Tax on Mining Companies
[?] Cape Assembly has agreed to the Profit [?] introduced by the Treasurer (Mr. E. H. [?] which provides for a tax of 10 per cent. [?] and copper mining companies…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Ironworks Mooted. Coal and Iron Available
Messrs. T. J. Heskitt and J. Earle Hermann, two of the principals in the new direct process for the manufacture of steel from native ores, have found a, seam of good…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →District News. [From Our Correspondent Coal Creek
During the last month or two influenza and heavy colds have been very prevalent in our district. Nearly every one has had the former, some cases…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Price of Coal. Movement Fob Advance
There is every probability that on Jakuary 1, 1908, tho price of coal will be advanced from 10s to lls a ton at the pit's mouth Newcastle. There has been a phenomenal…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fatal Accident in the Aberdare Mine. Coroners’s Inquest Opened
On Thursday afternoon last an Inquest was commenced at the Court House, Cessnock by Mr Coroner George Brown J.P…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Accident
A voting man named James Heppurn employed at Neath Colliery, on the South Maitland coalfield, was admitted to the Maitland Hospital this afternoon, in an unconscious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Neath Colliery Accident
It transpires that the young man James Hepburn, who was admitted to the Maitland Hospital yesterday afternoon from the Neath Colliery, is suffering from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Submarine Mines
A committee of the International Conference the Hague has improved of a preliminary agreement regulating the use of submarine mines warfare…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Gold Stealing
Two young- men, named Thos. Hickman and Geo. McBean, were charged at tho Harden Police Court to-day in connection with the theft of gold from the Harden mines…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Interests
Our mining industries are of great value to the country, and are capable of very great development. The mining laws until recently were declared to be very complex and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Neath Colliery Accident
Upon being made at the hospital this afternoon regarding the condition of the young man James Hepburn, who was injured at Neath Colliery on Monday, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cost of Coal
The serious rise in the price of coal has revived the agitation for the reimposition of a shilling per ton [?] on large exports, which are embarassing manufactures…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Government Mines
The Transvaal Government proposes to work the tin fields at Pictorsburg in order to employ the unemployed on the Rand and to prevent the big mining groups securing…
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