Seven Men Dashed to the Bottom of a Mine Shaft
A DISTRESSING mining accident is reported from Ashland (Pa.) The miners employed in the Locust Gap Colliery were alarmed by hearing a…
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Mining & the mines, 1891
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Parliament. Tuesday, May 26. Legislative Assembly. Mining on Kahibah Reserve. Imprisonment for Debt. Want of Tram Waiting-room at Newcastle. Chairman of Committees. SYDNEY
THE Speaker took the chair at 4.30 p.m. PAYMENTS AND REMITTANCES. Mr. M'MILLAN, in reply to Mr. Garvan, said, during the period from January 1 to…
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THE usual monthly meeting of the Wallsend miners was held in the School of Arts, on, Friday evening, May 22; Mr. R. Punton in the chair…
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BY the R.M.S. Monowai, the following coal circulars from San Francisco are to hand:— "March 28th: The arrivals this…
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A large number of visitors inspected the South mine this morning, and appeared to be very favourably impressed with the recent developments, and more especially with the…
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AT the Kaiping coalmines, about eighty miles north of Tientsin, China, coal-mining has been carried on for some ten years on a comparatively…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Meeting. Lambton
THE usual fortnightly meeting of the above minors was held on Wednesday evening; Mr. H. Hanlon in the chair. The minutes of the previous…
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A SPECIAL meeting of this lodge was held last night, Mr. W. H. For in the chair. The special business of the meeting was the consideration of the local delegates'…
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THE Rhenish Westphalische Zeitung, the organ of the colliery owners in the Rhenish and Westphalian districts, expresses a very candid opinion…
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LONDON, Thursday.—A general strike for reduced hours of labour has occurred among the coalminers of Bohemia, Austria…
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LONDON, Friday.—At a conference of the British Miners' Federation at Chester, it was resolved to form a National Miners' Federation, and to ask America and Australia to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia. Adelaide, Friday. Leigh's Creek Coal
On Friday the foreman in charge of the bore at Leigh's Creek wired to the Commissioner for Crown Lands, stating that the bore was down 1515ft, and still in coal. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill
At the Junction mine, the lode on the north drive from Adams' shaft, what had pinched-in the day before yesterday to about a foot in thickness and only assayed then…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bonang Gold-mining Company. Sydney
The mining manager wires: "Tapped water last Tuesday. Everything cafe. Water now bailed out."…
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A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was held on Monday night in Conn's Hall, Mr. H. Hanlon in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were…
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The Commissioner for Lands has received the following wire from Leigh's Creek:—"I have drilled 8ft since the last report—total depth,…
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Ellen Nugent, a domestic servant, was arraigned on a charge of stealing a gold watch, the property of John Mackenzie, the Examiner of Coalfields There was a second…
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THE report by the directors of this company for the six months ending December 31, 1890, states that the subject of the equipment of the Durham Colliery, by erecting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Central Mine. Broken Hill, Tuesday Night
On visiting the Central mine to-day, I found it looking very well in the 400ft level, north stopes, and ore second floor. The men have broken through into the drive which runs…
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THE Government Geologist has received the following telegram from the foreman of the diamond drill at Leigh's Creek:—"Bored 5ift since last report; total depth, 1528ft. Last…
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