Further Explosions Reported. Rescue Parties Trapped. Thirty More Persons Entombed. Sixty-seven Miners Perish
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 17 February 1908 · page 3
Later particulars announce that the rescue parties have been successful in bringing out native colliers. A second explosion, however, occurred,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Trouble. Situation Much Easter
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 February 1908 · page 3
The special coal court at Newcastle resumed its session to-day taking or dinary evidence. In the of the collieries where there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soothing the Coal Miners
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 February 1908 · page 5
All the coal mines in the Newcastle district were in full work to-day, and matters between employers and employes are "progressing soothingly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wyalong Miners on Strike
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 February 1908 · page 3
A telegram received from West Wyalong states that the which of the men employed in the gold miners on the field, with the exception of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The First Gold in Australia
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 February 1908 · page 20
The first definite record of the discovery of gold in Australia (85 yeats on Saturday last) is a note by Mr. James M'Brien, assistant surveyor, in a fieldbook which he used while…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Mining Market. Melbourne
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 February 1908 · page 4
Great Southern, b 21/, c 25/, Great Southern Come[?], b 5/6, 6/4. Chiltern Valley, b 19/, c 25/…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Explosions. Disaster in Natal. London, February 15
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 February 1908 · page 43
The Glencoe Colliery, in Natal, is the scene of a remarkable disaster, the extent of which cannot yet be gauged. An explosion occurred at the mine,…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Mining Strike at Wyalong. "West Wyalong
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 February 1908 · page 21
A big meeting of the Minors' Association held last night decided to strike for eight hours. All miners, with the exception of these employed at the True Blue…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Cablegrams. (Per Reuter.) Transvaal's Fickleness Coolies for the Mines. Stupid Dutch Obstinacy. Won't Have British Indians. Wants to Get French Madagascans. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 22 February 1908 · page 2
The Transvaal under Boer rule has not yet got over her trouble in finding suitable labor to work the gold mines on the Rand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Durham Colliery Explosion. Great Damage to the Workings. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 2
Further particulars have been received in connection with the disastrous explosion in the Glebe Colliery, Washington, near Sunderland, Durham, by which fourteen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disputes in the Coal Trade. Rumour of a Serious Crisis
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 2
It is rumored that a serious development in the dispute in the coal trade between the [?] owners and the miners has taken place. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chiltern Miners' Association
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 25 February 1908 · page 4
The adjourned half-yearly meeting of the Chiltern and Indigo branch of the Amalgamated Minors Association was hold at Rutherglen last week,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Discontent in the Coal Trade. Two More Strikes
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 25 February 1908 · page 3
The business of the Special Coal Court was again paralysed this morning when the sitting was opened at Newcastle, When the court met counsel for the mine-owners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Everlasting Coal Troubles
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 26 February 1908 · page 5
The special coal court resumed its sittings to-day, and the question was debated as to whether the miners in the Wallsand Colliery, by refusing to do shift work on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japanese Financial Panic. Gold Shipped From Australia
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 27 February 1908 · page 3
As a consequence of the financial panle in Japan, which resulted in the closing of four banks at Tokio and the rain of about a dozen large…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How to Kill Natives. Employ Them in Mines. a Starting Death Rate. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 27 February 1908 · page 2
Mr. Whiston Churchill, Under Secretary for the Colonles, stated in reply to a question in the House of Commons last night, that the average mortality among the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Recognition of Heroism. Two Coal Miners Ilonored. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 2
His Majesty the King to-day personally bestowed the Edward" medal on two coalminers named Chandler and Everson, for consplcnous gallantry in gaving lie. In…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Five Shilling Violir Solo for [?]500. Pipes Set Wp[?] Diamonds; and Carriage-bandles Made of Gold
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 3
The pipe smehed by the Shab of Persia on State occasions is at with diamonds, [?]ics, and [?] of the enelcest kind, and to [?] to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Cable News. London, Sunday. Disastrous Mine Explosion, Seventy Persons Killed
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 2 March 1908 · page 2
A disastrous explosion occurred on Friday in the Monterey Steal Company's mine at Sabinas in Mexice, in all 70 miners were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British or French. Coolie Labor for Rand Mines. Madagascar Labor Unavailable. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 2 March 1908 · page 2
In connection with the request made by the Transvaal Government to the Secretary of State for the Colonies to ask the French Government if it would sunction…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →