Hauls 1100 Tons of Coal
The Railway Department created a record when one of its locomotives, a D57, hauled 1100 tons of coal from Lithgow to Sydney. The previous…
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297 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 15
Inflation United States Proposal. Use of Gold Profits. Washington. August 31
An eventful inflation of the currency by 2,800,000,000 dollars is forecast by the Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Morgentbau, jun…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Strikers Fined Perth
For Having , been concerned in stride proceedings on the Collie field early this week, 159 employes of the Bullfinch collery were to-day fined…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Garage Hold-up Man Gagged and Tied Up. Bandits Secure £18 and Gold Watch. Sydney
Sydney Smith, garage attendant at Warwick Farm racecourse, Informed the police early this morning that in response to a knock at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Revival Up North Brisbane
Mining operations on afairly extansive scale at Charters Towers [?] in prospect Authority to prospect 3250 acres in the city area with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Oil From Coal Melbourne
The Commonwealth Minister for Development (Senator MeLachlan), when questioned to-day, said he had not yet received the recommendations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Body in Mine Shaft Murder is Suspected Belief of Detectives Burnie
Detectives are convinced that James Middap, 53, whose body was found last Thursday in a disused shaft of the Argent mine at Zeehan, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strange Deaths of Cattle Mining Dump to Blame Geelong
Arsen[?] in an old mining dump has been proved to be the cause of mysterious deaths of cattle and horses in the Morrison district. Loses of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →P.M. and Mother of 14 CHILDREN “State Should Give Gold Medal and Grant” 12 Are Under 14 Years of Age Sydney
When Mrs. Charlotte Thompson applied to MR. Flynn, S.M., at the Newtown Court to-day for time to vacate her cottage, she said she had 14…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Better Than a Gold Mine”
Reporting to the last meeting of the; Kerang Shire Council, the engineer stated that boring in Foster’s Swamp had indicated the presence of a deposit;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District Mining
William Percy Daly, Mullengandra, applied in Albury Mining Warden's Court on Wednesday for the cancellation of three authorities to enter on…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Price of Gold London, September 22
Gold was quoted in London to-day at £7 0/10 per fine ounce…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Blazing Inferno 100 Miners are Trapped 16 Charred Bodies Recovered Two Rescuers Fatally Overcome by Fumes LONDON, September 22
One of the most serious explosions in the history of coal mining occurred at Gresford colliery, near Wrexham, early this morning, when over a hundred men were entombed. Rescue parties worked feverishly to reach them, but as yet only a few charred bodies have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Walk Out Threat Trouble on Goldfields Engine-drivers to Give Notice Melbourne
By a two-thirds majority a meeting of engine-drivers and firemen employed on the Bendigo goldfields decided last night to give a week’s notice of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Mining Tender for Boring Let
Though it is some months since the Wahgunyah and Rutherglen Gold Mining Syndicate was floated in Melbourne, there has been some delay in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →English Colliery Disaster 260 Miners Believed to Have Perished London
After an exhausting day rescuers at Gresford, Colliery announced that rescue work had been abandoned, as nobody could possibly be alive. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disaster in Wales. Coal Miners Entombed. Explosion and Fire. London
One of the worst disasters in the history of coal mining in Great Britain occurred early this morning in the Gresford Colliery, near Wrexham…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death Roll Jumps to 260 Terrible Colliery Disaster Miners Entombed in Inferno Piteous Scenes at Pithead LONDON, September 23
After another exhausting day for die gallant-rescuers in the Gresford Colliery, near Wrexham, during which they worked indomitably in blinding heat-battling with flames deadly gases, huge falls of earth and rock and red hot debris in a-desperate though vain endeavor to reach their entombed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cock's Pioneer Mine Renewal of Activities at Eloorado
The unwatering of the dam at the Cock's Pioneer Mine, Eldorado, is proceeding rapidly. The barge is now connected with the Electricity…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?]balling Disaster in English Colliery Death Roll Totals 261 Rescue Work Abandoned All in Shaft Believed to Have Perished
There appalling colliery disaster has occurred in England, at the colliery. The officials estimate of the dead or missing miners [?] at 261, and in the belief that no one in the colliery could still [?]the rescue party has ceased operations and the shaft has been…
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