Dear Coal. London
Messages from Copenhagen state that the work of railways and factories is curtailed owing to the shortage of coal. The authorities are closing preliminary…
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Mining & the mines, 1917
810 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 41
Copper Mines Abandoned
SYDNEY, Sunday. -- The Kyloe Copper Mines, Limited, which have been closed down for the past four years are now to be abandoned…
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SYDNEY, Saturday. -- The Wood and Coal Employees' Union has reached an agreement for increases in wages from 10 to 12 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Adrift for Several Days. Skipper's Gold Watch Taken
LONDON, Saturday. -- A British officer and 27 Chinamen from the steamer Netherlee, which was torpedoed on 12th February, have landed. The officer relates that the explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nimbin Coal Field
The following letter from the Secretary, Public Works Department, to Mr. G. Nesbitt, M.L.A., was read at the usual fortnightly meeting of Lismore Municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unearthing Gold. Patriotism and Poverty
LONDON, Sunday.--A feature of the war loan subscriptions is the unearthing of extraordinary gold hoards. Three thousand sovereigns were paid at Sunderland Post…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General War News Patriotic Miners. a Strike now out of the Question. LONDON
The coal miners are expecting Mr. Calthrop to grant an all round increase of wages. Mr. Walsh, a leading delegate, says that a settlement of the wages…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Export
COPENHAGEN, Monday. -- It is officially announced that the restriction of the export of coal from England, to Norway has been abolished, in view of Norway undertaking not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tallow Beach Mining
One fortune hunter at least has so far been attracted to Byron Bay in response to the flourishing newspaper and local reports concerning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commandeering the Gold. Part of the National Effort
AMSTERDAM, Tuesday. -- The Imperial Bank, Germany, publishes a demand that all classes contribute gold ornaments and jewellery except special articles of artistic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tallow Beach Mining
One fortune hunter at least has so far been attracted to Byron Bay in response to the flourishing newspaper and local reports concerning beach…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners and the War. Wellington, N.Z.
The Military Service Board is considering an appeal from the Greymouth miners' for exemption. It is said that [?]erto exemptions for miners have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tallow Beach Mining
Tallow beach gold mining has again lapsed into the cock and bull state thas has characterised all at temps at prospect in the past. A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trouble on the Coal Fields. West Maitland
The employees of the East Greta and Junction mines are striking as a protest against their exclusion from the colliery mechanics compulsory…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Miners Trouble East Maitland
Mr. Dunleavy, of the Department of Labor and Industry is attempting,to Induce the East Greta Junction mechaniss to return to work, leaving the case to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Profits
SYDNEY, Thursday. -- During the half year ended December, North Broken Hill mine earned a profit of £164,203…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Conference Fails
WELLINGTON, Thursday. -- A conference of mine owners and miners was held at Wellington, N. Z., to- day. The miners asked for a considerable increase of pay and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Old Gold and Silver War Fund
In view of the special appeal now being made by the "War Chest" Fund, which is urgently in need of money, the committee of the Old…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Fatality
SYDNEY, Friday.--Owing to the premature explosion of a blast in a raine in South Broken Hill two men were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bullets of Gold. Explorer's Story
Mr. Christian Leden, a youth Swedish explorer commissioned by the University of Norway at Christiania, has returned to New York after, three years in the Arctic,…
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