Shocking Mining Disaster. Two Miners Killed
Two miners, Michael Morphy and Marasc[?]tti, met with a terrible fate in the north mine on Friday. At the chance of shift they fell out of the…
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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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Two miners, Michael Morphy and Marasc[?]tti, met with a terrible fate in the north mine on Friday. At the chance of shift they fell out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At a meeting yesterday of the Helton Lodge, presided over by Mr. W. Sheridan (chairman), there was considerable discussion, the result of winch was that the resolution from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At a special meeting of the Pelaw-Main miners lodge, held last evening, the present mining situation was discussed at some length…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Vancouver, Saturday.—A rich discovery of gold and silver ores has been made in the Cuilcotin country, and a stampede is now afoot throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Collie Burn mine, West Australia, Is likely to be closed down for a long time, as the result of the dismissal of the miner Wyard. The union has refused…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The desperate attempt made by the Northern Miners' Federation Delegate Board to save a desperate situation, by ordering the wheelers to resume work…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wallsend miners to-day interviewed Mr Ross, requesting him to consent to the shiftmen handling the timber. Mr Ross intimated that the Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a special meeting of the Stanford Merthyr miners lodge, held yesterday, the delegate Mr. Hudson, read and explained the delegate board minutes of September 7…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The British Admiralty's consignments of Welsh coal to Scotland. Hull, Newcastle and other ports by rail instead of by ship, and at the extra cost of 6s per ton cost of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An application was made to the president of the Industrial Arbitration Court on behalf of the Newcastle and Maitland colliery proprietors to fill the vacancies caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After a lecture at Kurri Kurri last night Mr. P. M. Koonin, the Russian student who escaped from Siberia, spoke on the mining situation, and advised the miners to stand by the wheelers, and urged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Quite contrary to general expectation the coal-mining difficulty at Newcastle has now received a big set-back so far as a settlement of the wheelers' trouble…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strike matters at Lithgow continue very quiet. A subject of interest is the next step which the Government may taks as a result of the conference on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During the fortnight ended to-day there has been such a tush of orders to the Newcastle and Maitland collieries that the miners will draw a big pay next fortnight. The rush has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The inquest, on the bodies of Michael Murphy and Louis Marachetti, the victims of the North Mine accident, was held at Broken Hill on Saturday. Evidence was given that about…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Northern miners' acting-president was asked on Thursday morning how the raining situation now stood, and he answered laconically "Dead as a door nan."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Twelve hundred minors at Bristol have struck work, demanding similar increases of wages to those granted in the Somerest area…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out in the Chester-to-Stree colliery. There were 81 men still below and the greatest anxiety was felt until they were rescued in batches of five…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The minors district treasurer, who was seen this morning, stilted the although the returns of tho lodge votes were not yet all in,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A newspaper controversy is in progress between Sir William Ramsay and Dr. Wilson, president of the Association of Minting Engineers. The former maintains that the…
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