Mining Fatalities. Mines Act Infringed. Lethbridge (Alberta)
The coroner's jury in the Hillcrest mining disaster has decided that the deaths of the miners were due to the explosion of gas and dust in the mine,…
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Mining & the mines, 1914
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The Coal Trade
Sir,—In your journal of July 23rd Mr. John Brown, in proposing the toast of "Prosperity to Newcastle" at the dinner tendered to Mr. Harry Lander, is reported…
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The partial stoppage of collieries in the Northern district has apparently arrived at a stage when no hope of conciliation presents itself…
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A fire was discovered in Neath Colliery yesterday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock. It assumed such proportions that the management decided to…
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The work of sealing the shafts at Neath Colliery was completed at 11 p.m. on Sunday, and occupied the attention of the officials and men for about five hours…
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In the Legislative Assembly this afternoon, Mr. Edden asked the Minister for Mines if his answer to a question asked by Mr. Gardiner recently, to the effect…
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Believed to have been caused by the bursting of a keroseno oil lamp, an outbreak of fire recently occurred at the South Hindley Colliery, near…
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The minors of the one shift collieries have served on their respective managers formal requests for conferences to deal with the question of a general increase in…
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A fire has occurred in the Adolf von Hausemann coal mine at Dortmund. Eighteen miners lost their lives…
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Mr. N. J. Clark, writing on behalf of the Hunter River District Colliery Proprietors' Defence Association, says that the statement which appeared In yesterday's…
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Notice of motion have been adopt at several of the Maitland district lodge requesting the executive to call an a gregate meeting to consider the…
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Captain Frankland, master of the steamer Imperial Transport, which arrived at Newcastle yesterday, from Ocean Island, reports a floe weather run of twelve days…
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The ballet for the president of the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association resulted in Mr. S. Bird being elected. In the ballot on the eight-hour…
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The half-yearly meeting of the Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company, Limited, was held [?] Royal Exchange to-day, Mr. H. de [?] presiding. The…
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The proposal to hold an aggregate meeting to consider the position that has arisen out of the afternoon shift question is not welcomed generally on the…
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There is evidence that the opinion is held in some quarters that the trouble affecting some of the mines on the Maitland field would be settled…
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Events in the Old World are being followed with the acutest interest in South Africa. All the newspaper offices in the city are…
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The last annual report of the Director of the United States mint estimated the world's gold output for 1913 at £93,416,000 to which the Transvaal contributed…
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Newcastle's foreign coal trade will doubtless be affected. There should be a good demand for Eastern ports and for the West Coast of South America, but…
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The collier Alice arrived in Sydney this afternoon with a cargo of coal from Newcastle for the Admiralty. The collier went at once to Garden Island, and…
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