London Gold Mine Fortune Under Bed LONDON, October 23
An apparent pauper who died in Bow-street left £60,000. A safe found under his bed contained 15,000 sove[?]as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1919
1,622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 67 of 82
The Mining Disaster
Nineteen bodies have been recovered at the Levant Mine, Cornwall, where the winding engine collapsed. Eleven miners are still missing, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal for New Zealand. Federation and Proprietors
A request to the northern district coal owners to cease exports to New Zealand until the dispute in the Dominion coal mining industry is settled was recently…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Militant Miners Nationalisation Demanded Smillie's Threat London. Friday Night
The miners' conference was in a militant mood. Mr. Robert Smillie (president of the Miners' Federation), who presided, announced the plans for a general…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Six-hour Day Miners to Ballot Abolition of Contract SYDNEY
Mr. A. C. Willis, secretary of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, stated to-day that it had been decided to take a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Industrial Matters. Coal Federation. Cost of Living Considered. Sydney
During the last three days the council of the Australasian Coal and Shade Employees' Federation have been in conference. Consideration has been given to a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WOLAROl'S SPRINT Gambler's Gold v. Varcotine V.R.C. Candidates Melbourne
At Flemington this morning the hurdles on the course proper were out 30 feet. Chrome ran once round in 2.39 [?], the distance being just short…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Industrial Matters. Coal Federation
A conference will be held at the rooms of the Northern Collieries' Association, Newcastle, to-day, between the coal owners and the representatives of the miners,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Mining Disaster
The death roll at the Levant mine, in Cornwall, caused through the collapse of the winding engine, amounts to 33. The last victim was still breathing when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Miners a Drastic Appeal Serious Break Averted VANCOUVER
A dramatic appeal by President Wilson's secretary, who was himself a miner, prevented an open break on Friday night between the miners and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Lambton Colliery
A dispute between the Colliery Employees' Federation and the Colliery Mechanics' Association at New Lambton Colliery, relative to the classification of two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bulli Colliery Idle. Sydney
About 200 men were idle on the south coast to-day owing to a stoppage at the Bulli Colliery. The trouble is due to a number of employees refusing to pay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sunk by a Mine
The Swedish steamer Hollander struck a mine in the North Sea, and sank in a few minutes. There are tour survivors out of a crew…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Ambitions Proprietors' Viewpoint
The miners' new move for a six-hour day, abolition of the contract system, and an alliance with the O.B.U., has not occasioned any…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Operations at the Mines
The holding of the meeting yesterday had practically no effect on the operations at the mines, only four of which were idle altogether in the two fields…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South African Gold
It is reported from Pretoria that the official report of the conference on the gold position as it affects the cost of living states that the conference passed a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Conference
An important conference of representatives of the mine-owners and employees was commenced yesterday afternoon, at the Newcastle rooms of the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Industrial Matters. Colliery Mechanics' Association. Another Conference Demanded
The colliery mechanics of the Maitland coalfields entered the militant industrial arena at the aggregate meeting held in the Olympic Hall, Weston, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Romantic Gold Hunt. Hopes of Making Millions
An American gold prospector, Mr. Perry Tiffany, with Mrs. Tiffany, and fifty gentlemen adventurers, have left New York on board the Dutch steamer Prins der…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Stubborn Operators" Miners' Threat Beginning of the Strike VANCOUVER
Mr. John Lewis (president of the United Mine Workers of America) has circularised the miners to stop work next Friday night. He said that the…
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