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Dear Sir.—At a meeting held at Katoomba on Tuesday night, the 15th January, for the purpose of receiving report for the last Progress Committee, and for nominations of members for the ensuing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A shocking mining accident occurred this morning to one of the oldest residents of the M[?]Ivor goldfield. It appears that James Moriarty, with two sons, was quartz-reefing on the Major's line,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →LONDON, January 20.—The Otago Pioneer Quartz Gold-mining Company with a capital of £100,000, has been announced as about to be placed on the London market…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Otago Pioneer Quartz Gold-mining Company, with a capital of £100,000, has been announced as about to be placed on the London market…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SILVERTON, Friday.—An important change has taken place recently in the 100ft level South Pinnacles Mine. A cross-cut was put into the west cut hanging wall, 5ft from the shaft, and reached the foot…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Friday Night.--News is to hand of a serious colliery explosion at Hyde, Cheshire. Thirty lives are reported to have been lost and many colliers were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.—At Chalk's Freehold Vine a strike is threatened. Owing to a number of miners not paying the arrears due at the company's mine, Maryborough, as members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LITHGOW, Saturday.—Mr.T. Penna, the miners' district chairman, has been appointed by the Miners' Union to represent them on the forth-coming Trades Union Congress, which is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A terrible colliery explosion occurred at Hyde, near Manchester, to-day. Thirty lives were lost, and many miners were seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, January 20.—A terrible explosion occurred at Hyde, near Manchester, to-day. Thirty lives were lost, and many miners were seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrible colliery explosion has occurred at Hyde, in Cheshire. The explosion was terrific, and occurred when a large number of the colliery hands…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday.--The Economist condemns the New Zealand Antimony Goldmining Company for purchasing land without having first tested the statements of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sad death occurred here yesterday. A young man named M'lntyre, the only support of a widowed mother, was smothered in a mine. He had been blasting, and descended too soon after an explosion. An inquest will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Monday. -- The miners' delegates have deputed Mr. Curley and two of the Wickham and Bullock Island miners to wait on the manager of that colliery in reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.-An important special meeting of the Miners' Delegate Board was held on Saturday. A communication teas read from the Borehole Lodge, requesting that a dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BROKEN HILL, Monday.-The half-yearly meeting of the delegates from the sub-branches of the Amalgamated Miners' Association (Barrier branch) was held on Saturday, at Umberumberka. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWCASTLE, This Day.--At a monthly meeting of the Borehole miners on Saturday night a complaint was made of the deficiency and badness of the air in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting of shareholders in the Lewis Ponds Gold and Silver Mining Company was held last night, Mr. S. B. Baly presiding, at Gunsler's Cafe. The chairman stated that considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An instance of what is believed to have been a ca[?] of "spontancous combus[?]on" in a coal cargo, was that of the three-masted schooner Airlie on the West Australian coast the other day. The coal in that vessel was from Ho[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEWCASTLE, This Day.--At a special meeting of the Delegate Board on Saturday it was decided that the dispute at Borehole should be sent to the Referee's…
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