Victoria. Melbourne, Sunday. the Coal Trade
A meeting of coal miners was held at Korumburra yesterday, at which six members of Parliament were present. It was stated that the Coal Creek Company now…
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Mining & the mines, 1896
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Miners' Risks
Benjamin Kellick, a miner, employed at Mr. Russell's Denton Park Colliery, sustained a fracture to the leg by a fall of coal yesterday afternoon. The sufferer was…
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The coal shipments at the dyke for the week ended at 6 a.m. yesterday amounted 49,508 tons, as against 48,035 tons for the corresponding week of last year, and showing an increase of 1473 tons in favour of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wallsend Colliery. Check-inspectors' Report
IN accordance with resolution of the committee we made as thorough an inspection of the mine as time and circumstances would permit, and although…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cost of Labour in the Transvaal. Closing of a Mine
LONDON, Sunday.—Owing to the cost of labour and the dynamite monopoly, Mr. R. J. Barnato intends to close the Langlaagte Royal Mine…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The Credo Gold Mining Company, Coolgardie, is issuing £100,000 in shares for public subscription…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Mining Catastrophe Two Miners Killed. Gundagai
A THRRIBLE mining fatality occurred here by which two men named Wilson and Webb lost their lives. The former was crushed to death, and the latter was nipped by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stockton. the Colliery Catastrophe
The most sincere commiseration was expressed on all hands yesterday throughout the borough at the death of the two men killed in the colliery the night before under…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Proposed Import Tax in Victoria on Coal
THE attempts which are now being made in Victoria to place a duty on coals imported into that colony are determined enough to engage the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dreadful Fatality Two Deaths at Stockton Colliery. Brave Actions by the Rescuers. the Inquest Opened and Adjourned
A CHASTLY discovery was made in the Stockton Colliery yesterday by the men whose duty it is to-make a daily inspection of the working places. Two miners (or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Turning Silver Into Gold
The restless activity of our chemists is always breaking out in fresh places. For some time they have been striving in both hemispheres to create artificial diamonds and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District News. Stockton. the Colliery Fatality.—the Funeral
The remains of the two unfortunate men, George Curran and Charles Smith, who met their death in the Stockton mine on Tuesday night, were yesterday conveyed to the Sand…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Coal Trade. Work at the Pits
THE pay to be drawn to-day for the fortnight ended last Saturday is hardly up to expectations; but in more than one instance it has been the want of empty trucks, rather…
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On account of the appalling catastrophe at the mine, the miners did not receive their pay yesterday, but the amounts due them will be handed over at noon to-day…
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THOUGH yesterday's pay was only moderately good, the prospects are favourable to an improvement from week to week for close on a couple of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Production of Coal in India
From Dr. Watt's review of the mineral production of India for the past year, it appears that the production of coal, though increasing with great rapidity, is not keeping…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria. Melbourne, Friday. Proposed Coal Duty
A deputation from Korumburra waited on the Premier to-day to urge the imposition of a duty of half-a-crown per ton on imported coal. The Premier said that the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria. Melbourne, Sunday. the Miners' Strike
The Outtrim miners still remain on strike. The Jumbunna Company having foreseen the strike, has stocks in hand to last six weeks. THE NEW GOLD FIND…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Stockton Calamity. Eleven Deaths for the Week. William Sneddon Dies at the Hospital. He Never Regained Consciousness. Visit of the Minister for Mines. The Pit Inspected by Colliery Managers
YET another victim has to be added to the death roll in connection with the catastrophe at the Stockton Colliery. Mr. William Simpson Sneddon, the miner who got a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Shipments
The coal shipments at the dyke for the week ended yesterday amounted to 54,113 tone, no against 48,125 tons for the corresponding period of last year, and showing an increase of 5988 tons in favour of last…
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