Railway Coal Contract. Report of the Commission
The report has been published of the Royal Commission respecting the action of the Railway Commissioners in accepting a four years coal…
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Railway Coal Contract. Mr. Holman's Views. His Request for Investigation Justified
Mr. W. A. Holman, M.L.A., at whose instance the recent inquiry was instituted into the coal contracts of the Railway Commissioners, and incidentally other…
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Matters mining are having a more promising aspect. The Melbourne company who have the Argalong Gold and Tin dredging lease in hand,…
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The Castlemaine foundry has orders for 15 dredging plants—all for Victoria. Thirty tons from Coradgery (Peak Hill, N.S.W.) sent to Cockle Creek yielded £400…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Brick Incident
Two young men, named Benjamin Evans and William Sherwin, were arrested at Freem[?]ntle (W.A.) last week on a charge of having obtained money…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jokook. the Jinglesome Story of Joe. From Mines to Melons. a Labor Agitator's Rise and Fall
It was a pretty plum tree A-growing good and high, Within a pleasant garden Where cooling fountains ply…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bag of Gold in a Tram-car
It is not every tram-car passenger who casually leaves a bag containing nearly £1000 in notes and gold behind him on the seat when he leaps from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Shires Act. Rating of Mines
A conference concerning the rating of mines under the Shires Act, was held today under the presidency of Mr. W. T. Dick, Honorary Minister. A long…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest from the City 400,000 American Miners. London, Feb. 4
The Unite: Mine Workers of the United Stater are trying to raise a strike fund of one million sterling It is expected that 400,000 miners will strike in…
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Tingha (N.S.W.) Tin Dredging Company has declared a dividend of 3d. per share. Phoenix Dredging Co., Buckland River, pays a shilling dividend on the 14th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Scotch Colliery Disaster. Miners Entombed. London, Feb. 6
Owing to an inrush of water, five miners working in a mine in Clack-mannanshire, Scotland. On Saturday, were entombed. Rescuers in an upper…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Catastrophe. London, Tuesday Afternoon
All inrush of water on Saturday caused the entombment of five miners at Clackmannanshire a coal-mining district of Scotland. Reseures, working…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Minister's Shuffle
McLeod, Vic. Minister of Mines took up an extraordinary position on Monday afternoon, when D. C. McGrath, M.L.A. for Grenville, and Frank Anstey. M.L.A. for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mount Adrah News, Mining
THE [?] Gold-mining Company's mine is looking as well as ever, and this is saying much, as the crushings mentioned below will show. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Strike Project. American Coal Miners. London, Feb. 7
A was a ported a few days ago that the United Mine Workers of the United Stated wore endeavoring to raise a strike fund of £1,000,000, and that it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →American Coal struggle. LONDON, Thursday evening
In anticipation of the contemplated strike of the mine workers of America, the anthracite and bituminous companies are preparing for the struggle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Coal Strike. to Commence on April 1
Tho United Mine Workers of the United States contemplate beginning on April 1 a strike involving the bituminous and anthracite fields. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Mining Discovery an Alluvial Find
For some time past it has been rumored that exceptionally good finds of gold have been made on Coolac Creek on Mr. P. J. O'Donnell's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Daring Gold Robbery. Amalgam Report Stolen. Plunder Recovered by Black Tracker
Late on Monday night a robbery of an exceptionally daring nature took place in the battery rctorting-house on the Golden Horseshoe Mine, Kalgoor-lie…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Colliery Explosion. Thirty-five Men Killed
A mining disaster has occurred in West Virginia. It was attended with considerable loss of life. At the Perell colliery, Makhill, in the…
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