How Warships Eat Up Coal
One of the many new items of expenditure which we have to face in the present war is the cost of fuel (says the "Globe.") The Navy Estimates for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1915
70 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 4
The Coal Strike
The coal strike in South Wales, which threatened to grievously embarrass naval operations, and thus to emperil the Empire itself, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tons of Gold
A Sydney paper has gone to the trouble of calculating the gold weight of the money collected in New South Wales up to Sunday last for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mine Exploding by Wireless
From France came news a few months ago of success in the art of exploding ocean mines by wireless impulses, but the news was received with suspicion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Strike Settlement. a Victory for the Miners. London
The Official Press Bureau in announcing the terms of settlement of the coal strike, states: "The coal owners, desiring to meet the difficulties of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Coal Strike Settled
The Official Press Bureau announces that the Coal Strike has been settled…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Pelaw Main Miners
The trouble at Pelaw Main mine continues over the employment of aliens. The wheelers have flatly refused to work with Germans, and the pit is idle…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Victorian Gold Find
A few weeks ago a lad, William Cooper, while sleeper-cutting with his father near Skeleton Range, three miles out of Chiltern, threw stones at birds…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News by Wire. Price of Coal to Be Fixed. Sydney
The Necessary Commodities Control Commission will fix the price of coal in a few days…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mining Romance
ONE would scarcely expect to find in the prosaic contents of the annual report of the managing director of a gold-mining company a story told with a spice of the romance associated with the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Marvels of Mine Warfare. Thrills of Underground Fighting
From time to time announcements appear in the official despatches to the effect that certain positions have been captured by means of mine warfare, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Germans and British Gold
Mr. R. McNeill asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons if he was aware that travellers found no difficulty in taking with them…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Amalgamated Hill End Co. Fine Cake of Gold
THE sight that greeted the eyes of the Shareholders of the Amalgamated Hill End, Ltd., at their annual meeting last week, held in the board room, Vickery's Chambers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alluvial Gold
Says last Saturday's Grafton "Examiner": We were yesterday shown some fine samples of coarse gold obtained in Corindi Creek, in the direction of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Roumanian Frontier. Mines and Trenches
The "Times" Bucharest correspondent states that the bank of the Danube opposite the Roumanian frontier has been mined, and forced labour is…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Australian Coal. Used by German Warships. to Sink British Ships
IT will come as a surprise to Australians generally to learn that the German cruisers that sank the two British warships—Good Hope and "Monmouth—off the South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Lumpers Strike
There is little change in the position of the coal lumpers' strike. Numbers of steamers are leaving short of coal, others are being diverted to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Perils of Mine-sweeping
Imagine yourself trying to walk through a dense wood at midnight with no lantern, the penalty for touching a tree being death ! That will give you…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Lumpers Strike
The object dependence on the trades unions to which the recent industrial "policy" of the State has reduced it, was vividly shown by the strike of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News by Wire. 44 Hours' Week for Miners
Hon. John Estell, Minister for Labor and Industry, informed the Amalgamated Miners' Association of Broken Hill that he will embody a 44 hours' week…
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