The Colliery Wages
The Lancashire colliery proprietors have refused to grant a minimum wage of seven shillings a day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New England · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1911
150 stories in New England's papers · page 8 of 8
A Goldfields Sketch. Ropeyarn's Dilemma
"Good- bye, John. Don't be long, Come back soon to your own chick a biddy, For the winds do blow, Yo-ho, Yo-ho, To take away my sailor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The King's Weight in Gold
IF the King raises no objection, it is proposed by the Indian community in Calcutta that he shall sit in a scale weighted by gold coins when he visits…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The King's Weight in Gold
If the King raises no object [?] is proposed by the Indian [?] in Calcutta that he shall sit [?] weighted by gold coins when [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Idle Rich Indicted. Lady Who Spends Fortunes on a Monkey. Society Woman Mad with Lust for Gold
From the ranks of American society a multicurie, whose name is familiar all over the world, has stood forth to henounce the idleness…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bathing in Gold
A Pension journalist who had speculated in railway shares, won 200,000 francs as the result of a lucky venture. Drawing it in gold, he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian State Coal Mine
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The nett profit for the year of the Victorian State coal mine at Wonthaggi was £24,101. The gross output of the mine totalled 396,042 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drake Mining
Mr. R Pyers, of Casino, is living here amongst us for a little while, and he has started working the old Mascotto again and has a few men cleaning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →American Mine Explosion
The latest particulars of a mine explosion at Briceville (U.S.A.) state that the tappings of the entombed men were heard yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Romance of Rand Mines
Up to 1881 there was scarcely a suspicion of gold in the Transvaal, and the country was regarded as a barren land, lacking in all the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Coal Miners
The militant sectionof the coalminers is becoming stronger, and the possibility exists of a vote being taken in favor of a national strike…
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