In the Roaring Sixties. the Great Rush at Canoona. Being a Reminiscent Yarn of Fifty Years Ago About Queensland's First Gold-Field
The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 19 November 1908 · page 9
How much gold was won at Canoona, no one can say—more, probably, than the authorities ever knew, for records were not very carefully…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Westphalian Mine Disaster
The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1908 · page 2
Also in The Gloucester Advocate
THE fire in the Badhed Mine at Hamm, Westphalis, has been extinguished by flooding the workings. Prince Eitel Frederick arrived at the mine during an angry demonstration against the owners, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clever Gold Frauds
The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1908 · page 3
A famous geologist and several engineers have been cleverly swindled by a Norwegian business man and a German engineer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Brand of Cain. (Copyright.) a Vivid Romance of the English Coal Mines, Part Ii. Introductory
The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1908 · page 3
Mr. Elijah Mosston is a wealthy colliery owner and self-made man in the mining village of Milnes Cross. He is a widower, and his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How Long Will the World's Coal Last?
The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 21 November 1908 · page 8
Computations of to-day have shown that Great Britain has "in sight," so to speak--although it is all below the ground--an available coal deposit of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Brand of Cain. (Copyright.) a Vivid Romance of the English Coal Mines, Introductory
The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 November 1908 · page 3
Mr. Elijah Mosston is a wealthy colliery owner and self-made man in the mining, village, of Milnes Cross. He is a widower, and his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Mine Explosion
The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 3 December 1908 · page 4
In an explosion in a coal mine at, Mariann, America, 275 miners were imprisoned. The majority of the victims were Englishmen and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Brand of Cain. (Copyright.) a Vivid Romance of the English Coal Mines, Introductory
The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 5 December 1908 · page 3
Mr. Elijah Mosston is a wealthy [?]olliery owner and self-made man in the mining village of Milnes Cross. He is a widower, and his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Let Me Know Mine End."
The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 5 December 1908 · page 2
ON Sunday evening last, in St. Thomas' Church, Port Maoquarie, references were made to the late boating fatality. There was a large congregation present, and the bymns "O let him whose sorrow"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill Mine Trouble
The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 10 December 1908 · page 4
The proposed reduction of wages at the Broken Hill Proprietary mine is regarded as portending serious trouble. A ballot of the combined unions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Brand of Cain. (Copyright.) Vivid Romance of the English Coal Mines. Introductory
The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 December 1908 · page 3
Mr. Elijah Mosston is a wealthy colliery owner and self-made man in the mining village of Milnes Cross. He is a widower, and his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Killed in a Mine
The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 17 December 1908 · page 4
Frederick Wilks and William Radcliffe have been killed in the Charters Towers United mine, by the fall of a heavy steel cage which strucke…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Brand of Cain. (Copyright.) a Vivid Romance of the English Coal Mines, Part 6
The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 December 1908 · page 3
"But respect for your father's memory, sir, ought to have made you honour any appointment he had made. Elljah Mosston knew men…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Brand of Cain. (Copyright.) a Vivid Romance of the English Coal Mines. Part 7
The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 December 1908 · page 3
"Another? Surely you have done and promised more than enough already. Mr. Mosston? the younyer man murmured,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Romance of Silver Mining
The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 December 1908 · page 6
The romantic discovery of a silver mine, while sinking a well for irrigation purposes, on land belonging to "Mrs. Langtry" (Lady de Bathe)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Broken Hell Mining Trouble
The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 31 December 1908 · page 4
The industrial trouble at Broken Hill is nearing a crisis. The combined unions are resisting a lockout by the Proprietary Coy, and operations at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →