Profit Tax on Mining Dividends New Impost in Cape Colony. London
The Cape Legislative Assembly has agreed to the proposition of Mr. Edgar Walton, Treasurer, for the imposition of a profit tax of 10 per cent, upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining & the mines, 1907
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The Farce at the Hague. Regulating Submarine Mines
A special committee appointed by the Peace Conference now sitting at The Hague, has approved of a preliminary agreement, regulating the use of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Miners on Stress
Owing to the decision, of the general manager not to increase the rate of pay over 7/9 per shift for wheelers the whole of the man working in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Miners' Dispute. Amicable Settlement
The disagreement between the Balmain coal miners and the manager of the works, widen threatened to bring about a lock-out; was amicably settled to-day. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Price of Coal in England. Agitation for an Export Duty
A serious rise in the price of coal has revived the agitation, for the re imposition of the shilling tax on every ton exported from the United Kingdom. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Country That Pours Out Gold
NEW SOUTH WALES, the premier productive and trading State of Australia, is fast earning a reputation for itself as the country that pours out gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dismissal of Coal Miners
It was stated by a deputation to the Acting Prime Minister to-day that 100 coal miners were dismissed from Gippsland collieries as a consequence of an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHITERN. Monday. Golden Bar Mine
Mr. Craven, M.L.A., on Friday visited the Golden Bar and Golden Bar Extended. It is understood that the visit is only a preliminary to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Torpedoes and Submarine Mines Rendering Melinite Harmless. Proposal of Its Discoverer. London
M. Turpin, the discoverer of the deadly explosive known as melinite, winch has come into general use for charging shells, torpedoes, and submarine mines, has made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Stealing in Mines
A representative deputation saw the Minister for Mines to-day on the subject of gold-stealings. The request was that the law be amended so that only…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →World's Coal Supply Rush of Ships to Newcastle
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Adelaide Steamship Co. yesterday in Adelaide. the chairman of directors Mr. J. Harvey, said he feared that before long…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHILTERN. Thursday. Mining Report
Golden Bar Extended.—Weekly report—Shaft lined 12ft. timbered 18ft., total from plat 92ft; ground sandstone and states water not so heavy. Breaking stone in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Danger of Sunken Mines. London, September 16
One of the subjects which came before the Hague Conference was the danger to neutral shipping to be apprehended from the practice of leaving live mines, whether floating…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Mining on the Rand. Chinese Want to Stay
Though mining operations on the Rand conducted by native labor are satisfactorily increasing, the cost of mining is also increasing. A number of Chinese coolies…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Engine Drivers' Examinations "Mines Inspection Act, 1901." "Coal Mines Regulation (Amending) Act, 1905."
The Board of Examiners of Engine-drivers have submitted to the New South Wales Minister for Mines and Agriculture, (Mr. Moore their report…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dreadful Mining Disaster Cage Falls 700ft. Seventeen Miners Smashed to Pieces. London
A terrible mining disaster has occurred, in the State of Michigan, U.S.A. In the town of Negaumee where the huge Jones-M'Laughlin Steel Works…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. Use of Electricity in Mines. Board of Inquiry Appointed
In connection with the controversy which has taken place regarding the alleged, danger of using electricity in mines, the State Cabinet wil next…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Falls on a Workman
Henry Johnson, 54, a wharf laborer of South Melbourne, met with a serious accident to-day. He was assisting to discharge a cargo of coal from the Barrabool…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fall of 700 Feet. Seventeen Miners Killed. London, September 20
A terrible disaster occurred at Negaunee, in the State of Michigan. A cage with 17 miners in it, was descending a mine attached to Jones and M'Laughlin's…
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