The South African Gold Fields
THE vast auriferous resources of South Africa are, says the Home News, beginning to do for that country what the gold fields did for the Australasian…
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Mining & the mines, 1888
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The Southern Collieries
The managers of the Mount Kembla, Mount Keira, and Mount Pleasant collieries have declined to accede to the demands of the men for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Day Dawn Gold-mining Company
At a meeting of shareholders in the Day Dawn Gold-mining Company (Q), Mr. Wyndham Mills advocated that the company should be wound up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[By Wire From the Sydney Papers.] London, Wednesday. Cumberland Gold-mining Company, Victoria
The Cumberland Gold-mining Company of Victoria has been registered, with a capital of £100,000…
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A SPECIAL correspondent of the South Australian Register, who is an authority on the subject, has paid a visit and reported upon a discovery of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia. Adelaide, Thursday. Coal Discovery
Coal has been discovered 60 miles from Adelaide, on the Murray flats…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Meeting at Creswick. Levy Ordered i Aid of the Strike. CRESWICK
A special delegate meeting of the Amalgamated Miners' Association was held in their hall at Creswick this afternoon. Present: The President,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Young Wallsend Coal-mining Company, Limited
THE mining manager reports ending September 8th:—Sinking operations have been continued night and day since my last report. The number of feet sunk is 47, making the…
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"Memorandum of Agreement made this day of one thousand eight hundred and between the…
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THIS morning (Friday), about 9 o'clock, an unfortunate accident occurred at the Wallsend Colliery, whereby Joseph Willis lost his life, and John Gilbert and James…
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YESTERDAY morning, in pursuance of the result of the mediation of the Citizens' Committee, a meeting took place in the Chamber of Commerce,…
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ON our sixth page will be found the masters' and the miners' agreements read at the conference yesterday, and which, we have no doubt, will be eagerly perused by all our…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small Coal. to the Editor
SIR,—In your note re my short letter referring to small coal, you said I ought to know small coal is not paid for. I am quite aware of that; but…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Scarcity of Coal in Adelaide. ADELAIDE
The stocks of coal at Adelaide and Port Adelaide are decreasing very rapidly, and, to make matters worse, orders have been received to reship coal from here to Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Coal Discovery in Victoria. A Seam Sixty Feet Thick
A discovery of coal, the importance of which cannot well be over-estimated, is reported to have been made on the Latrobe River, near Morwell, Victoria. The report…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Proprietors' Agreement. "Memo, of Agreement made the day of 1888, between hereinafter called the Associated Masters of the one part, and the officers and delegates of the Miners' Association of the Hunter River district of the other part
"Whereas it is considered expedient to enter into an agreement for the purpose of regulating the rate of wages to be paid at the collieries…
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The miners employed at Mount Kembla deny with indignation that any of their number tampered with the bore in the air-shaft, and…
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The above lodge mustered to the number of 600 or more on Saturday morning at the Mechanics' Institute, Hamilton, sympathetically granted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Miners' Manifesto. to the Editor
Sir,—I have very carefully read the manifesto signed by Mr. Curley. Will you kindly allow me a little space to express a few thoughts thereon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Correspondence Small Coal. to the Editor
SIR,—Permit me to say a few words on the subject of small coal, in order to set "Fair Play." in the light of truth. It is painfully evident that…
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