Welsh Coal Strike London, April 27
In September last the miners employed in the Ely pit, one of the mines of the Cambrian combine, struck on the question of the rates to be paid for cutting…
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"Lure of Gold and Call of Adventure." Washington
Speaking in the United States House of Representatives, Mr. Focht predicted an early invasion of Mexico by the United States, remarking that America wanted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Trouble in Alaska. Vancouver
No further disorders have occurred at Cordova, in Alaska, where the mob recently threw hundreds of tons of Canadian coal into the harbor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News From America Mining Disaster. Negaunee (Michigan)
A tragic mining disaster has occurred at Negaunee in Michigan, U.S.A. Fire broke out in a coal mine while a number of men were in the workings. So…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold at Gundagai Fifty Ounces From Half a Dish. Sydney
Mr. J. Dodd, a shareholder in the Long Tunnel mine, at Gundagai, received the following wire yesterday:— "Very nice ore going down 5ft. below…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Valedictory to Mr. George M'lellan. Presentation of a Gold Watch and Chain
A complementary valedictory smoke social was tendered to Mr. George M'Lellan at Oaklands on Friday evening, 28th ult. There was a large…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold at Pullitop
John Smith applied, before Mr. Geo. Stevenson, P.M., Mines Warden, at the Wagga Court House, on Monday, for right to enter an area of 25 acres, to mine for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Opaque Darkness. Fire in a Mine
I had known darkness before— darkness of the mine, darkness meant a complete absence of li[?] but here was an opaque darkness…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Leaf. Its Romance and Manufacture
In an article on gold leaf in the April "Magazine of Commerce," Mr. John Mastin says that just as the date of the discovery of gold is too remote even to be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Thrown Overboard. Riot in Alaskan Port. Vanconver, May 5
Emnlating the Boston Harbour tea party" of 1773, which pr[?]iptated the war of Independence a mob at Cordova, Alaska, enraged at the failure of the legal…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Off the Trail. Lost in a Blizzard. Miners Eat Dogs. Nome (Alaska). MaY 6
Three miners, who lost the trail, have had an awful experience. For forty days the men failed to regam the track, and a severe blizzard added to…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Coal Miners Wages in South Wales
The South Wales Coal Conciliation Board has agreed to 1 1/4 per cent, reduction in wages owing to the fan in the average selling price of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Tale of the Gold Fields
In the early mining days of Victoria, when the miners were in the habit of bringing their, gold dust and [?]ggets to, Melbourne in order to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →American Mining Accident. Scranton, (Penn.)
A mining catastrophe occurred here yesterday. Through an explosion in the Boston, colliery, five men lost their lives…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Independent Coal Masters
A few months ago the N.S.W. Government received a communication from the Commonwealth Prime Minister, stating that the Admiralty authorities wished to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Wales Miners Nationalisation Demanded. London
A Jargely attended meeting was held in Trafalgar Square on Saturday to raise money for the fund for the South Wales miners, who are on strike…
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The conference of the South Wales Coal Mine Owners' Association and the Miners' Federation has agreed that the terms of the settlement of the Cambrian dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder of Gamekeeper Two Miners Committed. London
Ten days ago a man named Harry Joyce, employed, as gamekeeper by Sir Thomas Pilkington, on the Chevet Park Estate, was found dead with a gunshot wound in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria. Chinaman's Lost Gold. Melbourne
The trial of a Chinese market gardener named Gee Kon on a charge of having stolen £240 and a gold ring, the property of another Chinese named Ah Fung, was…
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