A Metal More Beautiful Than Gold
Professor Robert[?]Austen has succeeded in making out of gold and aluminium [?] compound metal, or [?] that is said to be the most brilliant known. Its general…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1908
339 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 17 of 17
How Long Will the World's Coal Last?
Computations of to-day have shown that Great Britain has "in sight," so to speak -- although it is all below the ground -- an available coal deposit of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State Gold Yield. Sydney
The N. S. Wales gold yield for the month of November shows a marked falling off. while the yield for the 11 months of the current year shows a comparative decrease…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broken Hill Troubles. Proprietary Mine Closes Down. Pays Old Rates Resuming. Broken Hill
The manager of the Prop[?]ary mine posted a notification at Broken Hill today that owing to the combined unions not agreeing to meet the company the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Colliery Dispute
After a long spell of peaceful working colliery troubles have once more occurred. A partial cessation of work took place at the Stanford Merthyr pit on Wednesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Miners' Eight-hour Bill. London
The report stage of the Miners' EightHour bill has concluded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Cablegrams. Opposition to Mines Eight Hours Change in Attitude of Durham and Northumberland Mines. London. Friday Afternoon
Stre[?] opposition is developing to the Mines Eight Hours Bill in the House of Commons and outside owing to [?] of reducing the output, and that it would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mines Eight-hour Bill. London
Tho Mines Eight-Hour Bill was read the third time by 264 votes to 89…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Miners Killed
Frederick "Wilts and William Radcliffe were killed at the Charters Towers United Mine by the fall of a heavy steel cage, which struck and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Opposition to Mines Bill. London
Several railway directors have protested against the prospect of increased charges leading to economics involving the discharge of many servants…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Guns "Melted' Those of Baroda
I learn with profound regret (writes a correspondent of the "Westminster Gazette") that H.H. the Maharajah-Gaekwar of Baroda has melted down…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Eight Hours Mines' Bill. Proposal by Lord Lansdowne. London
The Eight Hours Mines Bill will exclude ingress or egress for five years, when ingress or egress will then be counted a part of the working day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Production. -- Some Astounding Figures
ACCORDING to a return recently tabled in the Federal Parliament, the total production of gold in Victoria from 1851 to the end of September, 1908…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Suspends Work. Broken [?]
Block 14. Min[?] suspended work to-day until further notice. The reason given is that, tenders for carbonates for next yeer had been, unsatisfactory and not profitable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Mines Bill. London, Friday Afternoon
The House of Lords has amended the Mines Bill by increasing the hours of labour by half an hour and deffering the date for it coming into operation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Mines Eight Hours Bill. House of Lords Amendment to Delay Operation of Bill, Disagreed With. London
After strong Labourite protests, the House of Commons agreed to the Government's reluctant acceptance of the House of Lords' amendment permanently…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Imitation Gold
At a meeting of the British Watch and Clock Makers' Guild the following resolution was unanimously adopted:—"That it shall be unlawful to sell any article as gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Subscriptions to Radbod Mining Disaster. London
Subscriptions to the Railroad mining disaster in Germany account to £60,000 sterling. This will provide a supplementary annuity of 150 marks to each widow…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →[?] Long Lane That [?]Had A Turning. [?]New Year's Gift for Tom Tinkler. [?]Australian Gold Field's Story [?]
[?]noticed that for a few [?]ore Christmas old Tom [?]as more than usually [?]and jolly -- not that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Co-operative Colliery. London, Friday afternoon
Sir C. F[?]rness has purchuscd the Wingotegrange Colliery, in the County of Durham, to initiate a co-partnership similar to that recently carried out with the ship…
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