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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
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The Daly River mine, which is figuring prominently in the Northern Territory injuiry, was discovered in November, 1882, by Henry Roberts and H. Househildt, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney office of the Northern Colliery proprietors has notified That the miners in the northern collieries have struck work and about 600 men are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The miners at two northern collieries have struck work, about 600 men being involved…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Very important results have been reached by the Committee appointed by the British Government to examine the feasibility of using ordinary town gas for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Thursday.—The operations allocated to the British for the clearance of all moored mines in home waters and the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →very important results have been reacbed by the committee appointed by the British Government to examine the feasibility of using ordinary town gas for the propulsion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Willis, secretary of the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, said that the motion for social ownership with democratic contril of the mines on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One of the main questions to be discussed at the annual meeting of the Coal and Shale Employees Association will be the social ownership of mines with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The Victorian Railway Commissioners are preparing to haul coal from New South Wales for use on the South Australian railways…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PERTH, Tuesday.—News from Kalgoorlie indicates an early reamption of work in the mines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. Willis, secretary of the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, objects to the statement of Mr. David Fell that there is a strike at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—The coal situation in Austria, is unprecedentedly critical. All passenger trains have been stopped for the past 10 days, and there is a likelihood of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"The age of coal is about to pass," I was told, "and when the British miners at last resolve to work hard and to dig greater quantities of coal out of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News from Kalgoorlie indicates the early resumption of work on the mines The Great Boulder mine is arranging to commence operations to-morrow, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A telegram has been received from the harbormaster at Fremantle reporting that four or five mines apparently of German type had been sighted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Very important results have been reached by the committee appointed by the British Government to examine the feasibility of using ordinary town gas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In consequence of the closing down of the Lithgow Ironworks, upwards of 330 men employed at Hoskins' iron mine at Cadia were thrown idle. This will be a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The commercial man in Sydney to-day conducts his business in more comfort than did the pioneers. He can now supervise an extensive house from an easy armchair and,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The, Commodore in charge of Garden Island received a message stating that an object considered to be a floating mine has been sighted in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The German steamer Walbeck will leave Sydney to-morrow for Newcastle to load 10,000 tons of gas coal for Melbourne to meet the shortage created by…
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