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Illawarra · Mining & the mines
86 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 3 of 5
Whereas it is expedient to make bettor provision for the regulation and inspection of Coal Mines and Collieries. Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →19. If any person contravenes or fails to comply with this Act with respect to the employment of any female or any male person under the age of thirteen and eighteen years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—With your permission, I avail myself of the timely invitation given for discussing the merits and changes of the proposed amendments in the Coal Mines Regulation Bill. By the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A conference of minors' dolomites of the various lodges in the southern districts was commenced yesterday at Green's Terminus Hotel to consider the new Mining Act. The employees of all the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Resuming where 1 left off, let me express the hope that the miners' representatives will hold tenaciously to the concession of an hour for the juniors, and if they do not agree with any further…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The first public demonstration under the auspices of the Illawarra Miners' Association took place on the Agricultural Society's grounds on Saturday last. The event had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As to payment by weight of persons employed in Mines. Exemption. Postponement. Penalty. 32. Payment by the day or yardage is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As to payment by weight of persons employed in Mines. Exemption. Postponement. Penalty. Check Inspectors…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—By a printer's error you inserted "foreman" instead of "overman" in the last amendment I proposed. As a number of the general rules apply more particularly to miners where…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—As there is no provision made regarding the return air-way, there ought to be a rule of this kind introduced: "Every air-passage existing and leading from the working-places to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The boring operations for coal, commenced at Otford about three months ago, have resulted in a splendid success, indicative of untold importance to that locality and the colony generally in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was commenced on Thursday at the Royal Hotel, Bulii, before the District Coroner (Mr. C. F. Smith) touching the death of a man named Robert Moore, who sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Assembly on "Wednesday (says the Herald). Mr. Sydney Smith moved the second reading of the Coal Mines Regulation Bill. He referred to the importance of the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A special meeting of the Illawarra Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers was held at the Freemasons' Hotel, on Saturday evening, to discuss the Mining Bill now before Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The meeting held in Wollongong on Saturday evening to discuss the new Mining Bill, was a gathering of considerable importance. It was composed of "mining and mechanical engineers"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—The suggestion of Mr. Joseph Mitchell, M.L.A., "that the proposed amendments should be printed and circulated;" amendments made by the high-sounding "Illawarra Institute of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The interest which has been aroused in the development of the Victorian coal-fields (says the Age) will be further excited by the discovery of the immense seam of coal 179 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A series of trials of Gippsland coal were carried out on Friday at Messrs. Preston Bro. distillery, Collingwood, Melbourne, especially with the view of testing its gas-producing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have just to hand the annual report of the Mines Department. this volume is growing more voluminous year by year, and at the same time its publication is becoming more and more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There are so many reasons why electricity is a superior agent for conveying power into a coal mine, there to be used in the operations incident to mining coal, that most of the larger…
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