Colliery Disaster 140 Men Entombed. Great Loss of Life. London, Feb. 17
A colliery explosion took place in Went Stanley pit, Durham. One hundred and forty men were entombed. A tongue of flame destroyed the shafting…
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Goal Miners' Federation. Amalgamation in Australia and New Zealnd
Mr. P. Hickey, a delegate from the New Zealand Coal Miners' Federation to the Australian Federation, has succeeded in his mission to amalgamate the two…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Broken Hill. Another Dynamite Outrage. Mine Official's House Attacked. the Occupants Escape. Broken Hill
The house of H. M. Lewis, accountant at Block Ten mine, was the scene of a dynamite outrage last night. Fortunately the occupants were…
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Through an explotion in the West Stanley colliery,'Durham, 140 miners were entombed. Of these 37 were rescued. It is feared the remainder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To-day's Cablegrams Durban Colliery Disaster. LONDON
All hopes of further rescues from the Durban colliery have been abandoned. The death roll numbers 150…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →What Our Coal Output Is Worth
It would seem, judging from last year's output from the mines and quarries of the United Kingdom, that there is little ground for the fear…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Colliery Disaster 150 Lives Lost. London, Feb. 19
All hope of further rescues from the Stanley colliery, Durham, have been abandoned. The death roll numbers 150…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Durham Colliery Disaster. Over a Hundred Killed. London
Of 14, men engaged in the pit of the West Stanley Colliery, Durham, when the explosion occurred, 37 were rescued. It is feared that the others have perished…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Fraud Mining Expert Arrested. Sydney
Frederick Kingston Smythe (24), described as a mining expert, at the Central Court to-day answered to a charge of using a cheque book…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill Resources. Important Discovery. New Reef in the Central Mine. Broken Hill
Developments of any consequence have become quite rare in mines along the line of lode, although prospecting has been keenly persevered in for a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Feloniously Slaying. Mines Remanded. Sydney
Robert Hall, a rock miner, was remanded to-day on a chaise of feloniously slaying John Niddric, and was liberated on bail…
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Two syndicates at Blakeville, near Ballan, Vic., the Golden Hope and George and Lyddiard, are both reported to be sinking on payable stone…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Adelong Mining News
ON the Old Hill and Caledonian Extended line of reef, Perkins and Crain, for a Sydney syndicate, have missed the channel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining at Goobragandra
A local syndicate, of which Messrs. Taylor, Grill and Dodd are the principals, is having a crushing plant erected at Goobragandra, those engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Mine on Fire. Cause of Outbreak Unknown. Sydney
The Westport coal mine, at Millerton, is on fire. No particulars as to the cause of the outbreak or the extent is as yet known. There are 251…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colliery Fire. New Zealand
In Auckland efforts are being made to extinguish the fire in Westport colliery by flooding it. It is feared, however, that the water supply will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines and Miners
'As a set-off against the slackness at the Burragorang silver mine, N.S.W., the Torranderie Pioneer Co., in the same district, is pushing development work ahead…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Coalminers. Illawarra. the Coal Trade
The keen depression which has existed in the northern district for some time past has extended to Illawarra. The trade of the collieries in the northern end of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners and Political Affiliation. the Principle Affirmed
The question of the affiliation of the A.M.A. of Victoria and Tasmania with the P.L.C. has for some years past been persistently advocated and insistently…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →N.s.w. Miners' Accident Relief Fund. Last Year's Figures
The report of the New South Wales Miners' Accident Relief Fund for 1908, just issued, states that during the year 185 distinct mines had been subject to the…
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