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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
1,214 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 61
It is very seldom that anybody sets lost in a coal mine, but this happened to a lad named John Kelly, in Mount Keira mine on Monday afternoon. At 5 o'clock, knock-off time, Kelly,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Maharajah of Nepal has given away his weight in gold, in accordance with the custom of Indian princes, who often make vows—for example, on recovery from some…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A strange experience befell John Kelly, a wheeler, in the Mount Keira Coal Mine on Monday afternoon. His safety lamp went out while he was making his way…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News has been received from Melbourne that the application on behalf of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association is not likely to be concluded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With the view of providing accommodation fpr the rapidly growing collection of gold keys, silver caskets containing burgess tickets, arid other mementoes of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Work at the district collieries Yesterday proceeded without a hitch. It was only natural that the output was small compared with what it is under normal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Daniel Bernard, a prospector, on Thursday unearthed a nugget weighing 128OZ from the bed of a creek at Penny weight Flat, Ballarat East. The nugget…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An examination of the bullets in the head of Mr. Nesbit, the colliery, cashier found dead in a Newcastle train, and off the compartment in which his body was found,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trouble has arisen at the Lithgow mine in connection with the quarterly cavil. It seems that the Lithgow Valley Colliery Company is opening up a new tunnel, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Lithgow miners have sustained heavy losses again owing to scarcity of railway trucks. On Friday the miners at the Vale of Clwydd pit turned up at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A special meeting of the Ebbw-Main Miners' Lodge was held in the School of Arts yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. Mr. J. Redgrove presided. The secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Perth “Sunday Times” of March 6, prints a letter from a digger at Tanami, Central Australia, in which the writer speaks in glowing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr Morgan Kingston is not the first working man to reach the London concert platform (says the "Westminster Gazette.") Mr Ben Davies, the famous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Go!" she exclaimed. "And never speak to mo again!" Out into the harsh night he passed, white-lipped and staggering. Beneath a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →According to a recent cable Charles Adams, charged at New York with swindling English people of £50,000 by means of the gold brick fraud, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There is a great rush of coal along the lines from the South Maitland coalfields and Newcastle. The traffic at times is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two of the miners delegates, Messrs. E, Frith and D. Williams, who were sentenced by Judge Heydon to two months' imprisonment, have been released from Maitland Gaol. Williams,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is expected that the Miners' Federation of Great Britain will advise the South Wales miners to accept the revised terms proposed by the owners to end the dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The dispute in the Northumberland collieries has resulted in fire gaining a hold in Radcliffe colliery, owing to the neglect of fire barriers. The owners are flooding the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the coal conference in Wales, where a general strike is imminent, there are indications of a probable ending of the crisis…
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