Blamonds and Gold Past Impostures Stories Re-told
The story of Lemoine and Wernher recalls that of Dome, extraordinary, air incredible, and for a while brilliantly successful impostures In the ,…
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Saved by a 7-Mile Dash. HOW 40 Miners Escaped with Their Lives
Miraculously escaping death by cremation or suffocation, or being blown to pieces by an explosion, forty miners…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' 8-Hours Bill. No Harm to Industries. London, March 27
Mr. Herbert Gladstone replying to a deputation of the iron, stool, shipping, and cotton industries and other users of coal, said that the miners Eight…
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A trial crushing from Jones' claim at Donkey Hill, Adelong, was put through at the Reefer battery last week, and gave a return of 1oz 12dwts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Mine Disaster Gas Explosion Kills Two Men. Seventy Rescuers Entombed. London, March 30
A gas explosion at the Union Pacific Coal Mine, Hanna, Wyoming, killed two men. A second explosion entombed 70…
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Electric lighting is to be installed at the Llanberris No. 1, Balllarat East. Not generally known that Goornong, near Bendigo, V., is the aboriginal name for…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Ventilation of Mines
Dear Worker,— "Your remarks, in the mining columns re the "Massie" fan call for more of the like When the fan was working at the South…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Reported Gold Find
A rich find of gold is reported from Micawber raine, Mont Tara, Buchan, where 100 miners are engaged. While driving along the line of reef they found it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Illawarra Notes. Coal Trade Returns
As an illustration of the buoyancy of the Illawarra coal trade at the present time the following returns will be interesting During the quarter just completed 72 days…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Industrial Union of Mine Workers. Political Action Advocated
The half-yearly meeting of this organisation was held at the Ballarat Trades Hall last week (Mr. J. Nugent presiding), and the following report by the officers was…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →The Nevada Thrill Miners Experiences. Entombed for Weeks
After the awful experience of forty-six days' entombment 1,000 ft. beneath the surface, three miners on named Balley. Brown and MacDonald, have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strike at Harden Gold Mine. Settlement Anxiously Awaited. Harden
The Harden gold mine strike is still unsettled. Men's meetings have been held daily. The mine and all trains are picketed. The managing director is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Snowball Copper Mine
A meeting of shareholders of Snowball Copper Mine was held in Sydney a few days ago, when it was decided to sell 52 shares that had been…
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Good sulphide ore was struck about 65ft. deep at Victoria Springs, Yambulla, N.S.W., on Friday last. A wire from Launceston, T., states that…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Condemned by Miners
The Helensburgh miners' lodge passed the following resolution at their last meeting: —"That we disapprove of the Industrial Disputes Bill now before Parliament, and…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Cosmopolitan Gold-stealing
Having reason to suspect that gold-stealing was going on at a house tenanted by Ah Foon in Bridge-street, Bendigo, V., the police watched the place. They saw a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Colliery Explosion
An explosion occurred during tost night in the Norton-hill colliery, Somersetshire. Thirty of the night-shift wore below at the time. Twenty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trouble at Newcastle. Coal Strike Threatened. Sydney
Newcastle is again threatened with serious labor troubles, owing to the employment of non-union coal trimmers. Unless their services are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Escort. Record Parcel for Twenty-five Years. Adelong
The convey left here yesterday with 3,500oz. of gold. This is the largest amount that has been sent away at one time for 25 years. It is five weeks since the last…
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Thornton's Reward, Pitfield, V., has won the satisfactory yield of 85oz. from 192 tons and prospects continue good. Burraga, N.S.W., Warden's. Court has…
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