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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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In local colliery and shipping circles this afternoon was in circulation news of an important nature. It is to the effect that one of the largest interstate shipping companies…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"I'll try to, Nell," he answered, brokenly. "You're an angel. You're the best girl in the world, and I know I don't deserve you. But, oh, it's awful sitting here behind iron bars,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jim Banister, it will be remembered, was seen to rush directly cut of the garden gate, and the certainly could not have thrown the knile a distance of a quarter of a mile,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. John Brown, of the firm of Messrs. J. and A. Brown, proprietors of Pelaw-Main, Back Creek, and Duckenfield collieries, and chairman of the Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Everyone agreed that the judge's summing up though strictly impartial, was not favourable to the prisoner, and it seemed that there was only one verdict which the jury could…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. James Hardie, chairman of the Abermain Conciliation Committee, has submitted the following awards:— EMPLOYEES' CLAIM…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Frederick Chas. Smith, a tram guard, bought sixpennyworth of tobacco on the evening of April 9 to give to his father, and, intending to add a pleasant surprise…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. John Brown, of the firm of Messrs. J. and A. Brown, proprietors of Pelaw-Main, Back Creek, and Duckenfield collieries, and chairman of the Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The old pit had to be closed. Labout difficulties, mechanical difficulties, and the rest had proved too much for it. So they wound up the last tub of coal, raked…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →During the last few days contracts for shipment of Newcastle coal to Mexico have been cancelled, owing to the war breaking out. The manual exports to Mexico reach…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The fortnightly meeting of the committee of management of the Federated Mining Mechanics Association was held at the registered office of the association,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The past fortnight was one of the busiest experienced at the district colleries for some months. Thirty-one of the forty-two pits put in full time; the shortages in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The report of the Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency (writes Loyat Eraser in the London "Daily Mali"), which has just been Issued, settles some controver…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Half a million miners in lowa threaten to strike unless a satisfactory settlement of their dispute is offected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five them and Ebbw [?] have [?] over a [?] earings in [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is reported that Major Butler and party, who are in possession of a 0 acre gold-mining lease near Lagoon, at a spot from which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The strikers and mine guards had a stirmish near Walzenburg yesterday, during which one man was killed. Several buildings were burned down by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Five thousand miners at Ebbw vale Colliery, Wales, have struck over the wages in abnormal places…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An explosion occurred at the New River Colliery Company's property, and as a result, 250 men were entombed at the 600ft, level. A rescue crew, which was promptly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The proposal of the Minister of Mines to take advantage of amendments to the Coal Mines Regulation Act to insert a clause to compel mine proprietors to provide dressing…
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