Late Telegrams Shocking Holiday Tragedy. Lady and Girl Killed at Bulli. Rum Over by Coal Skips. While Attempting to Save a Dog. SYDNEY
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 25 May 1916 · page 2
A party of sighteers were making their way up Bulli Mountain when a dog owned by one of the ladies ran on to the line in front of some coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thirsty Goldfields. Turn Down Early Closing of Hotels. SYDNEY
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 2
A referendum was taken throughout the west Australian goldfields electoral districts yesterday for the purpose of de[?]ing the hour at which the liquor bars…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Worth His Weight in Gold. Each Duntroon Educated Officer. SYDNEY
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 3 June 1916 · page 2
General Sir Ian Hamilton in a message to the commandant at Duntroon College says he is not overstating the case when he says that each Duntroon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sea Strewn with Wreckage. Mines Scattered Broadcast. COPENHAGEN
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Monday 5 June 1916 · page 2
Many steamers arriving in Danish harbors report that the sea is strewn for miles with evidence of the fearful battle. The wreckage is thick and widespread…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming Amd Mining Inventions
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Wednesday 7 June 1916 · page 6
Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys, of 77 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Old Gold and Silver War Fund
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Monday 19 June 1916 · page 2
Mrs. Liston asknowledges with thanks pareels front the following:â Miss Scolt, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Hargrave, Mrs. A. Cohen (second parcel),…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatality at East Greta Colliery. Maitland
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 24 June 1916 · page 2
A sad fatality occurred this afternoon at East Greta Colliery. A man named William O'Brien was suffocated. Deceased who was working on what is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming and Mining Inventions
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 27 June 1916 · page 4
Messrs. Griffith and Bassel, Patent Attorneys, of 77 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lightning Ridge Miners
The North Western Courier · Wednesday 5 July 1916 · page 2
We hear further from our member, Mr George Black, regarding unnaturalised Germans at Lighting Ridge, who were operating on the mining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Treasure Quest a Failure. Sunken Gold Taken in 1860. SYDNEY
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Wednesday 5 July 1916 · page 2
The cutter Enterprise reached Stewart Island after an unsuccessful quest in the vicinity of the Auckland Islands for the gold of the wrecked vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Decrease in Gold Yield. Sydney
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Friday 7 July 1916 · page 2
To New South Wales gold yield for the past half-year shows a comparative decrease in value of 90,279…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big British Coal Combine. (Reuter's Telegram.) LONDON
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Friday 7 July 1916 · page 2
The Cambrian Combine has absorbed the firm of Davis and Sons, with an aggregate capital of £4,000,000. This is now the largest coal concern in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scottish Miners Forego Holidays. (Reuter's Telegram.) LONDON
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 8 July 1916 · page 2
The Scottish minors, at the instance of the Minister of Munitions, have postponed their July holidays. The Government Liq[?]r Control Board…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seam of Coal
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 July 1916 · page 2
Mr. J. Miller, well sinker, Bellata, informs us that whilst sinking a well on Tycannah Station, threequ[?]ters of a mile from the railway line, he went…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming and Mining Inventions
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Monday 17 July 1916 · page 4
Messrs Griffith and Hassel, Paten Attorneys, of 77 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Trouble Looming. Eight Hour Question Main Issue. SYDNEY
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Monday 17 July 1916 · page 2
It is expected that every colliery, in the Eastern States and prooably in the Commonwealth will be idle one day next week to allow abrogate meetings to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Coal Field Stoppage. Men "Booted Long Enough." MAITLAND
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Wednesday 19 July 1916 · page 2
The whole of the collieries on the South Maitland coalfield were thrown idle to-day owing to trouble over the wages and working conditions of colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Trouble. Proprietors Agree to Conference. MAITLAND
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 20 July 1916 · page 2
The whole of the collieries at the South Maitland coalfield are still idle. A coommittee meeting of the Colliery mechanics' Association was held last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late Telegrams Miners' Stop Work Meeting. Result Awaited with Widespread Anxiety. Eight Hours' Day and Overtime. Vital Points. SYDNEY
The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 20 July 1916 · page 2
The result of the miners' stop work meeting all over Australia is awanted with considerable anxiety in industraial circles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Old Gold and Silver War Fund."
The North Western Courier · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 2
One of our recent editions contained on appeal by the Committee of this Fund asking for gold and siler articles of any and every description…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →