Appalling Colliery Disaster in France. Seventy-three Lives Lost
A ST. ETIENEE message on 6th December stated:—A calamitous explosion of fire-damp, involving, it is feared, the loss of between sixty and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1892
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San Francisco Coal Trade
A review of the Californian coal trade shows that the total receipts of coat in that State during 1891 exceeded those of any previous year, with the result that the total average cost of fuel consumed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill
During the past week the Junction has sent away 313 tons ore to the E. and A. Copper Company at Port Adelaide. Ore treated during the same period 291 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The West Wallsend Miners
AT the last meeting of the delegate board of the Miners' Association a letter was received from the West Wallsend Miners' Lodge, containing a motion of censure on the board…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Miners' Association. The General Secretaryship
THE full returns of the voting in the various miners' lodges with regard to the delegate board minute to rescind the previous decision of the district to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →East Lambton Miners. to the Editor
Sir,—In reply to Mr. T. G. Griffiths' letter of February 3rd, re East Lambton miners he says all the miners were willing to work at 11s…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Junction Mine Shut Down. Broken Hill
Great excitement was occasioned here this morning by the news that the Junction mine had been shut down, the manager having received instructions to pay every…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill
The Central mine has three smelters running, and is managing to secure sufficient water for that purpose. About 20,000 gallons daily is being obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Miners' Association
SEVERAL lodges in the Miners' Association have submitted motions providing for the re-establishment of management by a committee. Some twelve months ago the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Meeting. Burwood
THE Burwood miners held their usual monthly meeting last evening in the Albert Victor Hotel. Mr. W. Hawes occupied the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Proposed Coal Trust
THE formation of so-called "trusts" is one of the phenomena of the present age, and none can with certainty predict what the outcome of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Formation of a Coal Trust. a Huge Monopoly. Capital, £2,500,000
THE long-talked-of coal trust for this district has at last assumed a definite shape, and there is every appearance of all the collieries, with the exception of Lambton,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Meeting. Stockton
THE ordinary monthly meeting of this lodge was held last night, Mr. William M'Donald in the chair. After the minutes had been read and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Proposed Coal Trust
THE news with regard to the formation of a coal trust in this district which appeared in our columns yesterday caused the greatest interest throughout the district. Although…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The West Wallsend Miners. to the Editor
Sir,—In to-day's issue of your paper I see that you sympathise with the West Wallsend miners in the unfortunate position taken up by them during the late critical denouément…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CABLEGRAMS. The London Coal Porters' Strike. a Fierce Conflict
LONDON, Wednesday.—The strike of the London Coal Porters, which occurred owing to the dismissal of a unionist, continues, and promises to be prolonged. A large number…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Working Miners as Colliery Owners
A CURIOUS question has arisen as to the distribution of a sum of money which had been voted for the miners of Monthieu. A recent sitting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →South Australia. Adelaide, Friday. West Australian Gold-mining
Mr. Pleitner, late manager of the New Era mine, who has visited the Murchison goldfield, W.A., at the instance of an Adelaide syndicate, reports that there are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Explosions in 1891
DURING the past year at least 700 lives have been lost in mine explosions in Europe and America, the numbers being nearly equally divided between…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Federation of Miners
THE Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the largest Labour organisation in Great Britain, will hold an important conference at Hanley (says an English paper). The…
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