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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
832 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 35 of 42
The Maypole Colliery, Abram, near Wigan, Lancashire, was on Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 18, the scene of a terrible explosion, which has, it is believed, claimed seventy-six men…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →It has been known for a long time that coal exists in the Gloucester district, but owing to its location a distance from shipping, and the abundance of coal in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In consequence of a cablegram received from the London directors of the Balmain Colliery, the general manager has given 14 days' notice to the men that their services would not be further…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →John Conn, a guard, in the employ of the East Greta Company, met with a serious accident on the railway at about 6 o'clock this morning. Conn, in company with…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A remarkable story of a gang of criminals engaged in a "conspiracy of robbery and fraud" in regard to the Rand mines is told by the "Natal Witness" of August 8. This journal says:—"A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir William Ramsay, the celebrated savant, gave a correspondent of the "Matin" an interesting account of the experiments he is now engaged on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The attitude of the executive of the Colliery Employees' Federation towards the Industrial Disputes Act is not calculated to inspire the public with confidence in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire has occurred in the Koeniga Colliery, Silesia, Prussia. It is feared that 100 miners have been killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The action taken by the Crown Solicitor in obtaining leave to prosecute the miners who struck work at Lymmington colliery recently was discussed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Bcndigo City Court was erowded on Monday when the hearing of charges against persons alleged to have been illicitly buying gold was resumed. A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AFTER spending. £350,000 in extending it's workings under Sydney Harbour, the Balmain coal mine, which for the depth of its shafts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The miners of Koonig's colliery, Siberia, are sale. They ascended to the surface by say of another shaft…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'A' good deal of slack time has been experienced at the East Greta and Stanford-Merthyr Collieries for the fortnightly pay to be drawn on Friday next. At the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"From wine what sudden friendship springs!—Gay. "Is it true that the rector is in grave financial trouble—on the brink of rain, in fact—owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. P. Bowing, A Lewis, and J. Patterson, representing the Northern District Colliery Employees Federation, proceeded to Sydney yesterday and met the delegates of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The first bushranger I discovered bore the honored name of Nelson. He had been expatriated from England in Tasmania at an early age, and had duly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The attitude of the executive of the Colliery Employees' Federation towards the Industrial Disputes Act is not calculated to inspire the public with confidence in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two brothers, Joseph find John Smith, residents of Llanelly, exhibited at the mining registrar's office, Tarnagulla, Victoria, a few days since some rich specimens broken from the cap of a reef they…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The latest English mail brings news to the effect that most branches of the coal trade of the United Kingdom has livened up, and that prospects for the autumn…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE year 1908 marks an immense progress in milking machines (says an exchange.) A new invention, which has been recently paletted throughout…
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