Eighteenth Baby To Unemployed Miner’s Wife
LONDON, Thursday : Forty-two year-old Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Beechman today gave birth to her 18th baby at a South Wales…
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Three Bars Of Gold Stolen From Car
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Quantity of gold, valued at £700 was stolen from a parked car in Little Collins st this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian’s Appointment Causes Miners’ Stoppage In U.S.
NEW YORK, Sunday : Many American miners will stop work tomorrow in protest against appointment of Australain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Work in N.s.w, Mines May Cease
SYDNEY, Mon.: The State Council of the Deputies and Shotfirers’ Associations today reaffirmed its decision that all the association’s…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →425,000 Miners Idle Over an Australian New York
COAL production virtually ceased in the United States to-day as 425,000 miners east of the Mississippi stayed home on the orders of John L. Lewis, leader of the United Mineworkers’ Union…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines’ Engineers Back to Work To-day Sydney
ELEVENTH hour decision to-day by northern mine engineers to resume work in the pits in the morning has averted serious gas and electric power shortages in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Mining in Australia
Australian history is literally shot through with gold, Gold gave us wealth in the middle nineteenth century and the strikes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Shares Hold Prices
SYDNEY, Mon.: Coolgardie gold shares again held their advanced price on Sydney Stock Exchange today…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Flowing to Sydney Again
SYDNEY, Monday : Supplie[?] of [?] due to arrive early tomorrow morning are expected to prevent any interruption to Sydney’s…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →40 Die When Steamer Hits Mine
HONG KONG, Fri.: Forty persons were killed and an unknown number were injured when the British-registered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Menses Thinks Miners Good Fellows Melbourne
“I think that individually the miners are good fellows,” declared the leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →13,000 Tons of Coal Lost
SYDNEY, Mon.: NSW coal output was seriously retarded today when 16 mines were idle, resulting in a loss of 13,000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How Gold Was Found on Woolshed
HIS memory packed with the romance of an earlier dayâthe discovery of; gold on the Woolshed, the trial of the Kellys, first settlers in the north-east âMr. John Boadle drove into Albury on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners At Wonthaggi Stop Work
MELBOURNE, Thnrs.: Because a man had been denied free speech in Wonthaggi by an organised body of interrupters,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners Refuse to Walk Uphill and Downhill
SYDNEY, Monday: Because miners refuse to walk uphill and downhill to work, stoppages at two of Australia's leading mines,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gold Worth £1500 Seized
PERTH, Friday : Stopping a car at Southern Cross, detectives seized 200 ozs of gold bullion worth £1500. The car was speeding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appeal to Miners
In a statement which he issued tonight, the Minister for Shipping and Fuel (Senator Ashley) described the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →40,000 Miners and Wharfies Told to Stop Work Sydney
A LL miners and waterside workers throughout the Commonwealth —approximately 40,000 in all—have been committed to a one day stoppage to-morrow in decisions reached by the supreme bodies of the two unions to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners’ Leaders May Be Prosecuted SYDNEY
THE Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. F. Gallagher) will refer the action of the miners’ leaders in calling today‘s coalfields stoppages to the acting Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Cup Cabaret
The Gold Cup cabaret to [?] held at the Plaza on Gold Cup night, April 27, promises to [?] an outstanding success. The [?]…
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