Mining Fatality. Forty Killed. Tub Ropes Break. LONDON
It is reported that 40 men were killed at Nunnery coal pit, Sheffield, when tubs, containing 176 men were hurled to the bottom of a shaft,…
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581 stories in Riverina's papers · page 29 of 30
Tabletop Coal Field
Much interest is taken in the testing of Maryvale Estate, Tabletop 10 miles north of Albury, regarding its supposed coal deposits; the…
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A coaltrimmer, said to be named Richard Davies, married, with two children, was working on coal in the bunker of the steamer Ascanius in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Pit Fatality Seven Killed; Many Injured London, December 3
(Reuter Service) Seven wen were killed and 36 injured the Nunnery coalpit, Sheffield, by a number of “tubs”…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining Disaster. Seven Killed, 30 Injured. London
It is reported that forty men have been killed at the Nunnery coalpit, Sheffield. Tubs containing 176 men were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Sudden Spurt. Coal Mine Record. Newcastle
John Brown claims that to-day's output of coal at Newcastle was a world's record. The output at Pelaw Main was 3050 font,s [?] at Richmond Main 2353…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Trade Trouble London, December 4
A serious position has arisen at South Wales ports owing to the refusal of the local tippers to work a third shift, despite the advie of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Forty Years a Gundagai "Live Wire." The Citizens Honor Hon. J. M. Dodd, M.L.C. Presented With a Nugget of Gold
Hon. J. M. Dodd, M.L.C., who for 40 years has been a "live wire" in Gundagai, was honored by the citizens yesterday, when…
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Oh ! I'm many miles away from the scones of childhood's day And I'm dwelling on the old place once again…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Meerschaum Mining
In Asia Minor meerschaum mining is an important business. Pits are first due, and as soon as a vein of meerschaum is struck horizontal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wood Dearer Than Coal
Not so many years ago it would never have entered the minds of people to imagine a time when wood away back in N.S.W. and Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For Young Folks. Raindow Gold
At the end of the marvellous rainbow, Where the elves live—so I've been told— The fairies have hidden safe away…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold! Free to All Men Romance of N.S.W. Rushes Stories of Legislators. Journalists, and Others
Seventy-two years ago, Messrs Tom and Lister found gold at the Ophir,—or, say, at the Junction of Summerhill and Lowis Ponds Creeks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From Coal Heaver to Peacock
It may be confidently anticipated when business man Bruse gets buck from London ho will at once start to clean up Australia, House and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining James McEVOY'S FIND
Messrs Jim McEvoy, Patk. Halloran, W. J. Fraser and H. W. Baker, the owners of the gold show discovered by the first-mentioned on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Thirty Miners Entombed Rescue Feared to be Hopeless. LONDON
A message from Shanghai states that, due to the collapses in a coal mine at Kasuya-Fukuoka, thirty miners were entombed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trouble at Pelaw Main. Coal Cutting Machines. Sydney
A meeting of the council of the Miners' Federation to-day discussed the trouble at the Pelaw Main mine in connection with the refusal of the men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Accident Well-known Footballer Hurt Sydney
As the result of a fall of stone in the Mount Pleasant Colliery, near Wollongong, yesterday, Judy Masters, the well-known Soccer footballer,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Greasy Gold. Bullock Horn Bank
Mr. Martin Clancy, of Merrill Station, Gunning, is still hale and hearty at 94. Among his. many stories of the roaring old days,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Mystery. Mine-year-old Girl Found Shot. Maitland
Grace Mays, aged nine years, was to-day admitted to the Kurri Kurri Hospital. suffering from the effects of a buliet wound in the region of her…
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