Colliery Disaster
A falling cage in a colliery at Charlerei, Belgium, killed 10 persons…
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Mining & the mines, 1908
832 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 42
Special Mining Court. Earnings at Collieries. What Is a Living Wage?
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. After considerable debate had taken place regarding the admissability of some evidence tendered by the witness Cant as to…
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Mr. Gladstone, Home Secretary, was asked in the House of Commons wshether he would consent to defer the Miners Eight Hours Bill to another session, owing to the depression in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Killed. (By Cable). London
Ten miners have been killed at a colliery at Charleroi, Belgium, by falling from a cage…
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Reuter's correspondent at Johannesburg states that the Mining Commission's recommendations are generally considered to be too drastic for adoption…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scotland's Shame. Houses Op Miners. "A Disgrace to Civilisation."
The three days annual Conference (writes the "Dally News" of 27th December) of the Scottish Miners' Federation opened in Glasgow under the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Colliery Disaster. Miners Entombed. London, March 9
Through the upsetting of lighted candles, the timbering in the Hampstead Colliery, Birmingham, was set on fire. Nine colliers traversed the flames and escaped while 21 others to…
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Mr. H. Gladstone the Home Secretary, in receiving a deputation from the Shipping Federation and the railway companies to protest against the enactment of night hours as a legal…
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Last month the output of the Mount Morgan mine was ll,568oz. gold, and 489 tons copper, of the total estimated value of£74,300. kept it burning until now…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Clever Jewellery Robberies Forty Gold Rings Recovered
A remarkable series of jewellery thefts at Melbourne has been cleared up by the arrest of a young woman of respectable apperance, named Eva…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr Mauger and the Miners. Questions in the House
Reference was made in the House of Representatives on Wednesday to the aspersions recently cast on the miners of the Maitland district by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Scotland's Shame. Houses of Miners. "A Disgrace to Civilisation."
The three clays' annual Conference (writes the "Daily News" of 27th December) of the Scottish Miners' Federation opened in Glasgow under the…
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Special Mining Court [?] Heydog [?] and Messrs. H.S. Forsyth and Bowling members), resumed its sit this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further Mining Trouble. Burwood Colliery Idle. the Irrepressible Wheelers. Newcastle
This morning the Burwood Colliery, which employs about 400 minors and off hands, was thrown idle by the wheelers going on strike as a protest against the dismissal of one of their…
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In a report which was laid on the table of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, the Acting Government Geologist states that coal has been found in the vicinity of Moreton Bay, at the following…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Hampstead Disaster. How Christian Miners Died. London
Six of the bodies of the Hampstead (near Birmingham) colliery miners, who lost their lives when the upper works of the mine took fire recently, were…
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The Special Mining Court (Judge Heydon president, and Messrs. Forsyth and Bowling members) resumed its sittings this morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Meeting at Stanford-merthyr. the Flooded Mine. Stanford-merthyr
A special meeting of the Stanford-Morthyr minors' lodge, at which Mr. H. Jenkins presided, was hold yesterday afternoon to consider what, action should be taken with regard to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Court. Again Paralysed. Three Pits on Strike. Newcastle
Three large collieries, employing between them over a thousand miners and daily wage hands, are on strike to-day, and the Special Mining Court in in consequence…
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