New South Wales. the Newcastle Coal Strike. a More Hopeful Position. Sydney
A coalowners' conference was held yesterday at Newcastle to consider a proposition for the appointment of a sub-committee to deal with the…
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Mining News
At the Magenta all hands are off except those employed at the battery. A crushing is being put through, which promises to reach expectations…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New South Wales the Threatened Coal Strike. Sydney
A better feeling prevails in Newcastle to-day, and the general opinion seems to be that the danger of a general strike taking place in that district has…
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At the Chiltern Valley Consuls an important development has taken place. Up the lead about 7000 feet from the shaft a fine body of wash…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Canadian Gold-field
Government surveyors have discovered rich alluvial deposits at Peace River Valley, near Alberta, on the boundary of British Columbia…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Discoverer of Coal Tar Dye
The fiftieth anniversary of the discovery by William Henry Perkin of the first coal tar color, mauve, occurs this year. Plans are on foot in England…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →New South Wales. the Goal-strike Over. Miners Accept Terms. Sydney
By an overwhelming majority last night the miners of the Newcastle and Mariland districts accepted the owners terms of 4d per ton increase in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Threatened Coal Strike. Looks Ominous Again
A new and unpleasant development has taken place in the expiring coal crisis, which now threatens to come to life again…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Threatened Coal Strike. "Position Worse Than Ever!"
All the miners in the South Maitland Collieries have declined to go to work under the terms of the new agreement as they hold it to be simply an…
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In London, the only free gold market in the world, there is something like a famine of the precious metal. The governors of the Bank of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Coal Trouble
A great disaster has been happily averted from the northern coal district by the settlement of the dispute. Conference and conciliation have done…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Gold Discovery. Rich Alluvial Find. London, September 22
In the close neighbourhood of British Columbia, which has for many years been rich in gold deposits, a fresh discovery has been made, which is regarded as likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Honeymoon in a Coal Mine
Mr and Mrs Mel Spence, of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, (U.S.A.), chose, perhaps, the strangest place in the world to pass their honeymoon, through…
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At the Chiltern Valley they are blocking with "fair regularity" at the eastern or Duma end, with some parties short handed. At the western end…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Italian Miners at Rutherglen
A crave consideration at the mines in the Rutherglen district is the number of Italians employed. They appear to be on the increase, and local miners…
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At the Golden Eagle a new prospecting shaft is being sunk on the lode 70 feet south of the old shaft, and at 14 feet they have struck, the lode. which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Robbing of Reginald. £790 in Gold Missing
A sensational story was told to the police to-day by a young man named Reginald Tracey. who said that he had been robbed of £790 in gold by two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Welsh Coal-strike. 28,000 More Going Out
Twenty-eight thousand coal-miners at Pontypridd and the Rhondda Valley have now given notice of their intention to strike owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →First Gold Found in Alaska. Discovered by a Russian Trader in 1832 on Anauk River
Gold was first discovered in Alaska on the Anauk River, a territory of the Kushowim River, which joins the latter stream about 25 miles below…
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Robbie Burns Report.—Broken down Stone above break, showing gold. Expect reef to further improve as risen on…
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