Coal Contract Booked With Lithgow Colliery Sydney
The County Council to-day gave the Lithgow Valley Colliery Co. Ltd. a contract for 25,000 tons of coal at 18/10½ a ton, totalling £23,593/15/-…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1937
130 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 3 of 7
Miners to Resume a Stormy Meeting Melbourne
The Wonthaggi miners, after a stormy meeting, decided by 284 votes to 181, to accept the terms proposed at a round table…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Declared "Black" Miners' Action Sydney
Because the proprietors of Corrimal's only hotel refuted to reinstate a dismissed barman, the miners declared the hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GOLD! The Great Discovery of 1851 (Copyright)
Resistlessly the Wheel of Time revolves. Men come and go but life flows on. Change succeeds change. To-day we contemplate the events of yesterday while briefly waiting the developments of the coming morrow. Some make their passage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goldfields Days Articles for "Times"
The early days of the Turon goldfields provided one of the most picturesque periods in Australia's history. From the discovery of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australianities Gold!
I was walking round one of the oldest western goldfields the other day and thoughts came crowding into, or from, my mind fast and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gold Digging Days Ophir and After (Copyright)
Ophir! and instantly the mind reverts to the Old Testament and its records of Solomon the Wise, and that mysterious, and enthusiastically disputed, region Whence came the gold and precious gems for the embellishment of the temple, at Jerusalem. Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miners Win On Beer Strike Sydney
The temporary reinstatement of the barman ended the beer strike at Corrimal's only hotel. The miners' strike committee agreed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Digging days At Old Sofala (Copyright). the Dauntless Digger of Old
He had cradled, he had driven, Ho had sluiced and puddled, too, And he talked about a "horse," and "hanging wall;"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Move by Miners For All-round Betterment Sydney
A conference of delegates from all coalmining districts in N.S.W. will be held in Sydney on June 14, to consider the claims which the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Production
The Commonwealth Statistician announced recently that the production of gold in Australia during the first quarter of 1937 was 304,711…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gold Digging Days at Old Sofala (Copyright)
At his pleasant residence, "Boongana," Bondi, lives a fine old gentleman, Mr. William McCloy, aged ninety-two, and probably the oldest surviving veteran of the Sofala gold[?]ld. I found the cheerful old nonogenarian reading in the morning…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The World's Gold Increased Production Wholesale Prices Rise
The April number of the "Monthly Bulletin of Statistics." issued by the Economic Intelligence Service of the League of Nations, gives, in addition…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Oil From Coal Oversea Experience
That oil can be extracted from coal on an economical basis is proved by experience in oversea countries…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gold Digging Days All Aboard for Sofala! by Will Carter (Copyright) No. 5
One bright morning in 1860, William Simmonds, a Bathurst lad, went for a stroll in the vicinity of the present gaol. There was a pond somewhere near, and, not far away,a public house. Presently, up rolled about a dozen queer looking vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Increased Gold Yield
Gold production of New South Wales was 20,749oz fine, valued at £A183,143, for the first four months of this year, compared with 16,441…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder Case Body in Mine Shaft Brutal Attack Melbourne
The body of a man who has not yet been identified was found in an abandoned mine shaft near Maryborough,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Digging Days the Rattle of the Coach (Copy right) No. 6
"Tah — tatt-tah—tutta-tah—tutta-tah-tutta-tah—tutta-tah—tah!" Hark, there's the coachman's bugle! Now the [?] enters Bathurst town with a rattle of wheels, and a clatter of hooves, and Jim Lowe, always to time, now hauls up…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An Old Mine Shaft Reveals Ghastly Murder Man's Body Found Search for Youth Victim Brutally Killed Melbourne
An old mine shaft near Maryborough, has revealed a ghastly murder. In it, police found Hie body of Jack Woods (55), an old…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Digging Days at Old Sofala (Copyright)
Let us look back at Sofala before it was Sofala, when the pellucid waters of the Turon glided over the smooth, round pebbles, unstained by the dyes of alluvial mining operations. The valley-hills were there, but they were wooded right down to…
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