The Coal Crisis. Sea Pit Miners Decide Not to Give Notice. Probably No Strike at All. NEWCASTLE, Saturday Night
Sunday Times · Sunday 5 April 1896 · page 5
AT a meeting of the Sea Pit miners to-night it was decided not to hand in notices to strike. This is considered very important, as it will tend to persuade several…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand Colliery Disaster. Help for the Widows and Orphans
Truth · Sunday 5 April 1896 · page 7
MR. JAMES KIDMAN'S troupe of juveniles, known as the Brighton Amateur Variety Company, intend to show in aid of the widows and orphans rendered destitute by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mine Managers' Reports
Evening News · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 3
Demondrille Freehold Gold Mining Syndicate.—The mining manager reports the sinking of the eastern shaft 4ft for the week. The stone in north end is 8ft and increasing. Have not cat footwall of reef…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Northern Collieries. Notices of a Strike. the Men Not Unanimous. the Sea Pit Miners Decide Against a Strike
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 5
NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--A new phase in the coal trade crisis has developed, by the issue by most of the miners' lodge secretaries of notices that a general strike will be commenced 14 days from to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at a Mine
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Sunday.-- Last night, shortly after 10 o'clock, a destructive fire broke out on the claim of tho Woah Hawp Canton Company, Geelong-road, Baliarat…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Intelligence
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 7
Saturday being a holiday on the Mining Exchange there were no transactions to report. In reference to the reported stoppage of operations at the Peak Hill Proprietary gold mine, we…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Gold Fields
Evening News · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 3
GILGUNNIA, Saturday.—The Legal Bight claim at Four Mile has struck a chute of rich stone in their property. Some very good samples have been dollied, giving splendid results. The reef at present is small,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Zealand Colliery Disaster. Appeal for Funds in England
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 5
LONDON, Friday Night.--Mr. W. P. Reeves, the Agent-General for Now Zealand, has appealed for aid for the women aud children bereaved by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Brunner Colliery Disaster. Appeal for English Aid. London, April 3
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 5
Mr. W. P. Beeves, the Agent-General for New Zealand, has appealed for aid for the women and children left destitute by the late colliery explosion at Brunnerton,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sea Pit Miners. Decision Against a Strike. Newcastle
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 7
As a natural result of the quasi mining conference on thursday most of the miners' lodges held special meetings on the same evening to receive the reports of the delegates who had attended thereat…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Greta Miners. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Greta
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 6
The Greta Colliery worked eight days for the fortnight ending to-day, and there are still prospects of further work. The Anvil Creek Colliery is also working well. The miners have held a meeting, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An Accountant Charged. Alleged Frauds on a Coal Company
The Australian Star · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 7
Graham M. D. Miller, late accountant to the Metropolitan Coal Co., who was recently arrested in West Australia on a charge of larceny, was brought before the Water…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining at Tumbarumba. a Rich Discovery. TUMUT
The Australian Star · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 5
The new rush at Tumbarumba, about 33 miles from here, is abnormally rich. Pending the carrying out of the conditions of the Mining Act no further developments of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Miners The A.A. Co's. Men. Refusal to Give Notice. NEWCASTLE
The Australian Star · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 5
The A.A. Co.'s Sea Pit miners held a meeting on Saturday night. The minute from the delegate board directing a strike notice to be given was considered. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Crisis in the Coal Trade. Statements by Members of the Conference
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 7
The failure of the conference to effect any agreement with the men has rendered the position in Newcastle still more serious. The representatives of the Seaham and Waratah collieries stated on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Goldfields of Western Australia. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondents.) Kalgoorlie
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 5
A good discovery has been made at the Hannan's Wealth mine, owned by an Adelaide company, at a depth of 100ft. A lode struck in the crosscut is 5ft. wide, and shows good gold by dollying. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The West Australian Goldfields. Discovery at the Bank of England
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 April 1896 · page 4
KALGOORLIE, Thursday.--The Brown hill plant is now running regularly. An outcropping vein, discovered at the Bank of England mine a few weeks ago,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brunner Colliery Disaster
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1896 · page 5
In another column reference is made to a Scaneoscopic Entertainment which is to be given to-night at the Centenary Hall, under Vice-regal patronage, in aid of the sufferers by the Brunner colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Collieries. No Fresh Developments
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 April 1896 · page 4
NEWCASTLE, Monday.--The manager of the Wallsend colliery has received the strike notice from the secretary of Wallsend miners' lodge. Apart from this there is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 April 1896 · page 7
One of the modest requests' made to the Victorian Minister of Mines by a deputation from the Miners' Association was that in the new Mining Bill provision should he made to prevent…
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