Premiers Agree on Gold Price Rise
LONDON, Fri.: Commonwealth Prime Ministers today agreed that a rise in the price of gold was desirable if world trade was to be…
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Tornado Smashes Qld. Mining Town
BRISBANE, Sun.: A four-minute tornado levelled to the ground most of the small mining township of Ackland, about 30 miles from Toowoomba, late yesterday…
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NEWCASTLE, Tues.: The Great Greta miners ended their 20-day strike underground when they marched out of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Lost Heavily Over Stay-in Strike
NEWCASTLE, Sun.: Union officials claim that the 20-day stay-in strike at the Great Greta colliery was a “success.”…
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DARWIN, Sun.: Darwin police have recovered more than £7000 worth of smuggled gold—the biggest haul in the history of the Northern Territory…
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LONDON, Mon.: The biggest strike in the coal industry since nationalisation has practically shut down the Yorkshire…
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MANILA, Tues.: Salvage work has now begun on the flooded Paracale gold mine in Luzon, where between 69 and 80 miners…
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MANILA, Wed.: The Paracale mine in south-eastern Luzon, where 55 men were entombed on Monday in the Philippines’ worst…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold charge dismissed
DARWIN, Wed.: A charge of unlawful possession of gold against a Tennant. Creek diamond driller was dismissed by stipendiary…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal offered at big price reduction
BRISBANE, Wed.: Offers of big reduction in price of Queensland coal have been made to the Pakistan coal mission, which is still…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: NSW coal production for the first 10 months of the year was more than 14 per cent, higher than for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Goldfields pioneer’s £94,739 estate
PERTH, Wed.: Albert Jesse (Tommy) Talbot, a noted goldfields pioneer of WA, who died last August, left estate valued for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Charges Withdrawn
DARWIN, Fri.: Police today withdrew charges of unlawful possession of a quantity of gold against two men in Darwin police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Too much coal creates problems
SYDNEY, Fri.: A trouble-free year on the northern coalfields of NSW has brought new problems—those…
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JOHANNESBURG, Sun.: Nine Africans entombed since Wednesday by a fall of rock in the Nourse Goldmine, were brought…
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