Wallsend Miners
THE monthly meeting of the above miners was held in the School of Arts on Friday evening, Mr. Wm. Bower in the chair. The CHAIRMAN explained that in accordance…
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Mining & the mines, 1897
972 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 49
Gold Galore
The statistics of the Rand district are absolutely dazzling. This field, which was unknown 12 years ago, has given an output of 10,000,000oz of gold during its brief…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sulphides and Coal
The people of the southern districts evidently intend to make the best of their advantages. A sectional committee of the Works Committee have been in that locality…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Mining Explosive
MINERS are becoming interested in a new mining explosive described by Prof. E. Kleinpeter, of Vienna, which is being introduced in Austria. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Great Gold Robbery. 5000 Sovereigns Missing. A Mystery. Melbourne
CONSIDERABLE sensation was caused here yesterday when it was reported at the detective office that a box containing 6000 sovereigns, shipped to London by the Oceana on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Shipments
The total amount of cool shipped at the dyke for the week ended at 6 a m. yesterday was 55,315 tons as against 53,502 tons for the corresponding period of last year, showing an increase of 1813 tons in favour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Africa. Another Coal Find
LONDON , Sunday.—Rich coal has been discovered in Khama's country, Matabeleland, close to the route of the railway to Buluwayo…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria. Melbourne, Monday. a Mine's Dividends
At the general meeting of Long Tunnel Extended Company, Walhalla, held this afternoon, the report showed that a sum of over £32,000 had been paid in dividends…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Migration of the Mining Population
The influx of population to West Australia may be roughly gauged by the number of men leaving this district for the West by every outgoing boat. But a better estimate can…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gold Robbery. Search on the Oceana. Adelaide
As soon as the Oceana anchored this morning police officials went out from Largs and communicated with those already on board, and Mr. Hardy, the representative of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stockton. the Colliery Disaster Fund
On Monday night there was received through Inspector Lynch, of Newcastle, by the hands of First-class Constable Knight, of Stockton, the sum of £2 15s, subscribed to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Mines Regulation Act. Examination of Students for Certificates
THIRTY-SIX candidates presented themselves for examination for certificates of competency under the new Coal Mines Regulation Act at the Technical College yesterday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stockton. the Colliery Disaster Fund
There was yesterday received towards the above fund the sum of £15 from the Metropolitan Gas Company, of Sydney; also £2 5s, collected from four subscribers in Albury by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Trade. Work at the Pits
WITH, perhaps, but one or two exceptions, the pits of the district will be kept working nearly full time for some few weeks to come. In addition to the long list of vessels now in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gold Robbery on the Oceana. a Further Search. Adelaide
ALTHOUGH every effort was made by two Victorian detectives and the local detective force to discover the missing 5000 sovereigns, stolen from the strong room of the Oceana,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle-wallsend Coal Company. Half-Yearly Meeting. Sydney
THE half-yearly meeting of the Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company was held to-day at the company's office, Bridge-street. Mr. Peter Reid, chairman of directors presided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New Guinea Goldfields
Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Company's steamer Titus is due here to-morrow en route to New Guinea, and takes 50 miners for the New Guinea goldfields. The steamer proceeds direct to Samarai. In view of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Items
WORK is very slack at New Lambton Colliery at present (writes a suburban correspondent). For the present week the colliery has only worked one day. The men were paid…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Columbia's Coal Supply
The boom in British Columbian mining, which has been brought about in the main by the recent rich discoveries of the more precious minerals in Kootenay and elsewhere,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The South African Goldfields. Ruling Rates of Wages
REFERENCE to the Witwatersrand goldfields a writer in the Australian Mining Standard states that nearly two and a half millions sterling is paid out annually for white…
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