Sonoma Mystery. Boxes of Gold Disappear. £25,000 Missing
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has received a cable intimating that five boxes of gold, valued at £25, 000, were missing from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1921
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Miners' Pay. £86 a Fortnight, for Two Men. the Northern Field. W. MAITLAND
Two miners employed at Aberdare Central colliery, in the Cessnock district, established a record for the amount of pay drawn for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Industry. Invitation to Colliery Mechanics. One Organisation
Mr. J. M. Baddeley. president a the Miners' Federation, has fur [?] to the executive of the [?] Union a statement of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Ninety-three Feet. Enormous Seam of Coal
Professor David has returned to Brisbane after visiting Blair Athol coalfields and Drummond Range, in the neighbourhood of Bogantungan…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Gold Robbery. Mystery Continues. Vancouver, November 24
A San Francisco message states that no definite progress has been made regarding the Sonoma robbery, which Chief-Detective Matheson regards as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stolen Gold £25,000 Disappears From Sonoma
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia received a cable on Thursday morning that five boxes of gold, valued at £25,000, were missing from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Slack Fortnight. Work at the Collieries
Work at the Newcastle and Maitland district collieries was slack during the fortnight ended on Saturday. The first day of the period was a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colliery Mechanics
Representatives of the Colliery Mechanics' and Colliery Proprietors' Associations will meet at Newcastle, on Thursday, at noon, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Recovered. Vancouver
Six boxes of sovereigns have been discovered in a ventilator of the steamer Sonoma…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sonoma Gold Robbery Opinion Op Ship's Captain
San Francisco, Saturday.—Captain Trask, commander of the Sonoma, said: "It's difficult to believe that members of my own crew would conspire to loot…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stolen Gold. "Bootleggers" Suspected. Vancouver, November 28
The Sun Francisco police to-day are willing to accept the New South Wales theory the specie of which five boxes were taken went aboard the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stolen Gold. Bulk Already Recovered. Vancouver
Six thousand of the 25,000 sovereigns were stolen from the Shiment at gold by the steamer Sonoma, during the voyage from Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hebburn Collieries. Visit of State Governor. New Development
Sir Walter Davidson and Dame Margaret Davidson, who are on a visit to Newcastle, accompanied by Mr. J. Estell, M.L.A. (Minister for Works),…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Buried for 43 Years
London, Tuesday.—Miners at the Prince of Wales Colliery at Abercarn broke through an old working and found, the remains of many of the 263 victims…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sonoma Gold Robbery Contraband Liquor Found
New York, Monday.—The San Francisco correspondent of the Australian Press Association reports that the surveyor of Port Flattery, with a group of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Discovered. Three of Ship's Crew Arrested
New York, Tuesday.—The San Francisco correspondent of the United Press Association reports that Mr S. Samuels announces that 27,000 dollars' worth of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Robbery. Several Arrests. Vancouver, November 29
Three members of the crew of the Sonoma have been detained in irons on board the ship. Their names are withheld pending further…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Breaches of Colliery Rules
At the Cessnock Police Court on Tuesday, six defendants were fined 10/ and costs of court for breaches of Special Rule 46. In two cases the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Injured in a Colliery
Mr. James Jenkins, 36, a resident of East Greta Junction, who was admitted to the Maitland Hospital suffering from concusllon as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sonoma's Gold. Nearly All Found
The Sonoma sensation is practically at an end. A thorough searching of the ship resulted in the discovery of 27,000 dollars worth in a…
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