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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
448 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 21 of 23
Five hundred and fifty members of the Seamen's Union met at Wellington this morning, and decided to give 24 hours' notice to cease work if free laborers were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For some time past the Tooloom and woodenbong Butter Factory at Urbenville, on the Upper itichmong River, has been using locally obtained coal for fuel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The mining strike has been settled, both sides agreeing to arbitration. During the strike four were killed and a hundred injured, as well as enormous damage done…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Industrial Magistrate, Mr. Hibble, has given his reserved judgment in the case in which the Grafton Copper Company was sued for double rates for Sunday work on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. H. Rose, managing director of the Baffina Gold and Mining Company, has just returned (says "R.R. Times"), from Germamton, where he purchased a sluicing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Smillie in an interview, said the British miners were satistied with the legislation arising out of the strike of 1912. They had now formed a combisation of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Senate has adopted the Miners Eight Hours' Bill, which has already passed the Chamber…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fall of earth at the Artvin copper mines killed 6 men and injured 28…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The total coal reserves of the world amount to 7,397,533,000 tons, according to a monograph prepared for the Geological Congress at Toronto. In order of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The collapse of some staging at the Golden Horseshoe Mine, Kalgoorlie. precipitated two Austrinns down a chute 50 feet, and one was killed and the other badly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Considerable unrest prevails on the Newcastle district coal fields, and representatives of the miners met in conference, yesterday, and although the procise nature of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three hundred bodies have now been recovered aat Senghenydd The exploring parties have concluded their search and found every where evidence of the struggle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An explosion entombed thirty miners in the number two mine of the Alabama Fuel and Iron Company, of whom six dead have been recovered and three have escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ovor 25,000 miners have strock at Pas de Calais, with a view to compelling the Senate to reli[?]ish its amendments to the Eight Hours Bill increasing the overtime…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is reported that Mr. Harold Hetherington, who recently left, this district to take over a farm in Queensland, near Maryborough, has struck what promises to be a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir John Forrest, Federal Treasurer, to-day stated that the Commonwealth Governmeat had decided to refund to the companies concerned in the Coal Vend…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The South Clifton colliery was idle to-day owing to a strike of the minors, who complained about being taken from their places in the pit and put on to do the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coul Lumpers Union held a meeting this morning to decide whether they would accent the new agreement that is to take the place of the one just expired. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Meerschaum mines in Nemlau have been worked for two thousand years, it is claimed, and the process is simple. The mines, which at one time reached from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The miners on strike attempted to blow up a compressor plant house at the Almeek mine. A heavy charge of dynamite partially wrecked the building, the guards…
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