The Mine Reported Safe
Mr. Jonathan Dixon, the acting manager of the Stockton Colliery, reports that work may be resumed at any moment now, but acting on the advice of the Government officials, he…
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Mining & the mines, 1896
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The Stockton Calamity. Meeting of Stockton Miners. Deputation to the Government Inspectors. The New Coal Mines Regulation Act
AT a meeting of the Stockton miners, held at the lodge-room yesterday morning, it was decided to invite Messrs. Dixon and Humble, the Government colliery inspectors, to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All-nations Gold Mining Company
THE shareholders in the West Wyalong All-Nations Gold Mining Company are to be congratulated upon the success that has at last attended their efforts. The manager…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Flotation of Mines
It is obviously desirable (says a London journal) that the Governors of Australian colonies should rigidly abstain from any connection with the flotation of gold mines,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Miners' Permanent Relief Fund: Ways and Means
THE proposal to establish a miners' permanent relief fund has been amply justified by the Stockton disaster. The working of a colliery may…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The Northern Territories Goldfields Company has been formed with a capital of £300,000. Of this sum £295,000 will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flooding of a Mine. Six Miners Missing
LONDON, Thursday.—A serious accident occurred to-day in a colliery at Abernant, near Aberdare, Glamorganshire, South Wales. While the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Items
IT is over three weeks since the Railway Commissioners agreed (writes a suburban correspondent) to run a workmen's train to and from the Burwood Colliery for the…
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THE Golden Pile, Gympie, has crushed 183 tons of stone for a yield of 830oz of gold in a cake. Chandler and party, from their…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Minister for Mines Expresses Sympathy
The Minister for Mines has sent a copy of the following letter to each relative of miners killed in the late Stockton colliery disaster :—"Department of Mines and Agriculture…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Greta Colliery
ANOTHER pay has been concluded, and the men lave one day in, just about sufficient in many cases to pay the various fees and other incidental expenses. This makes 11½ days…
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LONDON, Friday.—The Kapai-Vermont Gold-mining Company, New Zealand, which issued shares to the extent of £110,000 for public…
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The coal shipments at the dyke for the week ended at 6 a.m, yesterday amounted to 47,595 tons as against 40,637 tons for the corresponding period of last year, and showing an increase of 6948 tons in…
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It is proposed by Mr. D. A. Thomas, M P., that the tenets of the nitrate combination shall be applied to the South Wales coal trade. He would check underselling by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Pumping" Coal to Market
The Now York Steam Heating Company has determined to adopt the plan of pumping coal in a liquid form through pipes directly from the mines to its storage plants in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Stockton Colliery. Work Resumed
MUCH satisfaction was felt at Stockton yesterday when the red flag took the place of the white one on the pit head, indicating that the joint inspection made the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Provident Fund for Miners
THE subject of the establishment of a fund for the maintenance of the widows and children of coal-miners who may be left to fight the battle of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wallsend Miners. The Proposed Relief Fund
A SPECIAL meeting of the Wallsend miners was held in the school of Arts last evening. There was a limited attendance. Mr. William Bower, who was in the chair, explained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Proposed Recognition of Bravery. Gold Medals from the Government. Sydney
Mr. W. T. Dick, M.P., to-day had a conversation with the Minister for Mines and Agriculture, Mr. Sydney Smith, on the subject of the Stockton Colliery disaster, and he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Greta. the Colliery
A number of men employed here have left to secure work at Stockton, and to facilitate their departure their wages for the pay have been handed to them. Some, preferring to…
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