The Mining Bill Criticised
Mr. Edden, Minister for Mines, described the criticism which, the Engine-drivers and Firemen's Union had passed upon his contemplated mines legislation…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Mining & the mines, 1912
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British Coal Industry. Masters and Men at Variance London
Although the strike of several thousand colliers at Ebbw Vale, in Monmouthshire, has been declared "off," the coal owners have not allowed the men to resume…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Disaster. Great Loss of Life. Berlin, Aug. 9
A coal mine disaster, attended by great loss of life, has occurred at Bochum. An explosion of fire-damp wrecked a portion of the workings of the Lothringen…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Miners Electric Lamp
The first prize of £600 offered by the Home Office for a miner's electric lamp has been awarded to F. Farber, of Dortmund (Germany)[?] Eight English, and foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Conference. Minimum Wage Acts Working. London
A conference of delegates from the [?] branches of the Miners Federation, is being held at Blackpool, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Miners' Conference. Minimum Act Works Badly. London
The conference of the Miners' Federation has resolved to express strong dissatisfaction at the working of the Minimum Wage Act, particularly because, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Sues Miners. a Novel Prosecution. LONDON,Monday
A novel prosecution arising out of the Minimum Wage in Mines Act was heard last week. The Redheugh Colliery sued over 300…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Showers of Gold Coins. Mulai Hafid in Marseilles. Paris
Mul[?] Hand lias been celebrating his abdiction of the Sheree[?]an. throne by a round of novel experiences at Marseilles. He has visited all the leading theatres and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Inter-state. Mining Act Amendment
The bill to amend the Mining Act, 1906, and the Crown Lands Act, and to provide for the resumption of land for mining villages introduced to the…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Visitor Robbed of His Gold
W. L. Boston, employed on the steamer Beltana, now in Victoria dock, lost his hard-earned sovereigns last night in circum stances of a most unpleasant nature. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Stealing in Victoria
In the Victorian Assembly, Mr. Hampson said that the miners at Bendigo denied part of the reports from the superintendent (Mr. Dungey) with respect to the…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →The Tin Mines to Start Work. Germanton
Dear Uncle Jeff,—This is my first letter to the "Banner," and I hope you will enrol me as one of your many nieces. I take great interest in reading the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Public Swindled. £16.000 Invested in Bogus Mine. Paris
A serious mining fraud has been exposed in Paris. Yesterday an ex-schoolmaster named Mennedoche was arrested on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Coal Mine Under the Sea
What is perhaps the most extraordinary coal mine m the world, as well as the smallest, is situated on a tiny island in the Japan Sea; near Nagasaki,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Miners Killed. Bodies Terribly Mutilated. Newcastle
Information has come to hand of a fatality at Wallarah colliery, at Catherine Hill Ray, at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. A sudden fall of stone from the roof…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Goal Mine Flooded. Three Hundred Men in Danger
A serious mining disaster was narrowly averted yesterday at Aberdare, in Glamorganshire. An inrush of water from old workings flooded a colliery in which 300…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thirty Tons of Gold. Removing the Federal Gold Reserve
During the past week about 30 tons of sovereigns were quietly moved from the old Federal Treasury strong room to the new building in Melbourne. Not even a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Troublesome Miners in Nz Auckland
All is [?] at the Wathi mine at present. The attitude of the strikers is menacing towards the free laborers at Waikino…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Disaster in France Heavy Loss of Life Certain. Paris
An explosion of fire damp at the Clarence mine at Bethune has caused a great disaster. Thirty-three men were rescued from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. Disastrous Cloudbursts Forty People Drowned. 400 Miners Narrowly Escape. Every House Levelled in a Town. Pitiesburg
Disastrous cloudbursts have occurred throughout the State of Pennsylvania. The rivers in Pennsylvania and Ohio overflowed and the bodies of 40 persons…
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