Miners' Wages Board. Its Sitting Resumed
The Miners' Wages Board (Judge Scholes president, and Messrs. H. S. Forsyth and J. Paterson (emplyers' and employees' representatives respectively) resumed at the…
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Mining & the mines, 1910
1,214 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 29 of 61
Local and General. Accident at Stanford-Merthyr Colliery
A lad named James McAlister, employed at the Stanford-Merthyr Colliery, received a severe gash on his face while at work on Tuesday. It appears that McAlistcr, who is a clipper, slipped…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Miners' Wages Board Evidence Continued
The Miners' Wages Board (Judge Scholes president), and Messrs. H. S. Forsyth and J. Paterson (employers' and employees' representatives respectively) sat attain at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Stanford-merthyr Colliery Farewell to Mr. G. Buck
Mr. G. Buck, who has occupied the position of deputy at the Stanford-Merthyr colliery for some time, and who has been promoted to a position at Neath Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Government Coal Mine
Messrs, Sheddon and Sons hare a number of men engaged on The South Australian Government coal mining property near Cessnock (says our Mines representative). The construction of the dams is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cumberland Colliery Explosion Many Lives Lost. London, Thursday evening
An explosion has occurred at the Wellington colliery, Whitehaven, Cumberland, belonging to the Earl of Lonsdale, resulting in 130 miners being entombed, of whom four have been rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Miners' Board. the Power, to Stop Strikes
The Northern Miners' Wages Board met in the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, Judge Scholes presiding. Mr. A. J. Kelynack, instructled by Messrs. Sparke and Millard,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tramway Extension to Mining Townships
The East Greta Progress Association has asked the co-operation of the Cessnock Shire Council in regard to the extension of the Maitland tramway to the mining district. The association also…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Vend-federal Prosecutions. Writ to Be. Issued
The Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes), who has been in Sydney for some days, has now been joined by the Secretory to the Law Department (Mr. R. R. Garron) and the Crown Solicitor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murrurundi Shale Mine
Thus the Murrurundi Times:—Very good progress is being made with the work of putting in he siding for the shale mine company. About…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Work at the Collieries. Payable Prospects. Newcastle
The majority of the Northern district collieries have worked excellently for the fortnightly pay to be drawn by the miners next Friday. Seventeen pits worked the full eleven days, and eight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Notes
The Hetton miners have only worked four weeks during the past 41 weeks, and the distress occasioned can consequently be imagined. On…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →American Colliery Disaster. 185 Lives Lost. London, May 6
An explosion at the Palos coal mine near Bumingliam, Alabama, U.S.A., is reported, insulting in the loss of 185 lives. A sheet of flame shot from the mouth of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Very Latest Cables. Colliery Catastrophe. Rescue Impossible. Flames in Full Command. London Friday afternoon
Experienced rescue parties at Whitehaven Colliery, in Cumberland, are still baffled. There was terrible disappointment on their returning and reporting that the task of rescue was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cumberland Colliery Disaster
While the Empire is in mourning for the sudden , death of the King, an additional sorrow has been caused through the mining disaster at the Wellington colliery in Cumberland, by which no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Work at the Mines
The Maitland district collieries have worKed lull time for the pay to be drawn on Thursday (says our Mines correspondent). Prospects of trade are said to be fairly good, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Township Firemen
Captain Percival, of the Kurri Fire Brigade (says our Mines representative) has contradicted a statement made in Sydney recently by Chief Officer Webb that the mining district brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Colliery Disaster Rescuers Driven Back. Latest Apparatus Tried. London, May 15
A special rescue party from Newcastle, Tankersley, and Sheffield, using a safety apparatus, approached within 130 yards of the fire, but dense smoke and heat made the metal helmets…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Colliery Disaster
The decision to brick up the ventilation as the only way In extinguish the fire in Wellington pit, White haven, had nearly caused a riot among the colliers when Lord Lonsdale, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Appalling Mining Disaster. Explosion, and Mine on Fire. London, May 12
AN explosion took place in the Wellington pit at Whitehaven, Cumberland, yesterday. One hundred and thirty miners…
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