Miners' Risks. a Miner Injured
JOHN CARR, of Adamstown, a miner employed in the Newcastle pit, got his arm broken last week. It appears that a fall of coal took place, which struck a prop, knocking it out…
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JOHN CARR, of Adamstown, a miner employed in the Newcastle pit, got his arm broken last week. It appears that a fall of coal took place, which struck a prop, knocking it out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ABOUT 125 tons of ore is being dispatched daily from the British Blocks to the smelting works at Port Pirie, and the material now carries a higher percentage of silver than…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE above miners held their quarterly general meeting on Monday evening in Simpson's-hall. Mr. John Lloyd in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON Monday.—The Morfa colliery, near Cardiff, South Wales, in which so many lives were recently lost through an explosion, has been flooded in order to extinguish the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—The colliery owners in the Bristol district and parts of Warwick. shire, Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, have conceded the demands of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MINUTRS of committee of management meeting held March 18, 1890. Present: Messrs. J. Thomson (president) in the chair, A. Cook, J. Duke, W. Blakey, J. Hunter, W…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MAJORS CREEK Proprietary Gold-mining Company crushed 130 tons of stone for 22 tons concentrates, and 32oz amalgam. The Tributors of the Band of Hope and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Monday.—The Federated Association of Colliery Owners held a conference to day to further consider the demands of the men who struck work on Saturday last for an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SINGULAR story comes from Macclesafield, England. At the police court, a hawker named Fryer, was committed for trial at the Sessions charged with stealing £16. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Tuesday.—In consequence of the great advance in the price of coal caused by the miners' strike several large factories and mills have been closed at Bradford, Bolton,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The strike of coalminers is causing widespread mischief. Many factories and mills have already stopped working, and some of the factories…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following telegram has been received (says the S. A. Advertiser) by the South Australian Inspector of Mines, from Mr. T. Smith, foreman in charge of No. 3 diamond…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BAKER'S CREEK on Tuesday banked 192oz of gold, crushed from 190 tons quartz. Kohinoor treated 279 tons for a yield of 50oz retorted gold…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT Newcastle yesterday Mr. Henry George had a great deal to say on the question of the ownership of coal lands. There was some sense (says the Star) but a great deal of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE usual monthly meeting of the members of the Wickham and Bullock Island Miners' Lodge was held in the Criterion Hotel, Wickham, last evening. Mr. William…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WITH reference to the miners' strike at the Coalcliff Colliery, Mr. J. Thompson Paxton, the secretary of the Coalcliff Land and Mining Company, Limited, has sent the following…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE prospectus of the abovenamed syndicate appears in our advertising columns to-day. The land now under offer to the public comprises 80 acres of proved valuable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—A settlement has been agreed to in the Warwick collieries. The men have accepted an offer made by the mineowners of an advance of 5…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The work of searching for the miners who were entombed in the Morfa Colliery, Glamorganshire, and who are still missing, has now been abandoned, all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I see in your issue of yesterday a letter from James Barr, colliery manager, Monkwearmouth, contradicting a statement that appeared in your issue of the 13th inst,…
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