Colliery Mishaps
BULLI, Friday.--Yesterday a wheeler, Joseph Davies, met with a serious accident at the South Bulli Colliery. He was in the act of passing between the trucks under his control when a…
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BULLI, Friday.--Yesterday a wheeler, Joseph Davies, met with a serious accident at the South Bulli Colliery. He was in the act of passing between the trucks under his control when a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Important developments at the Balmain Coalmine are daily expected. At present the company are driving under Balmain by virtue of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Write the buoyancy of the previous day was hardly maintained yesterday on the Sydney Exchange, a good volume of business was carried through. The market was rather uncertain at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A big coal famine exists in San Francisco owing to some coal combines putting up the price 15s a ton. The published wholesale…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →OFFER TO PURCHASE FOR £125,000. An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Queen Bee Copper Company Was held at the company's office, Wrightville,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →LITHGOW, Friday.--At the coalminers' delegate meeting held last night, the owners' reply was considered at length, and the situation in regard to the working conditions in the north…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →London quotations, dated February 14. received yesterday by the Broken Hill Proprietary give the oflicial buying price for metals as follows:—Silver, 2s 7½d; lead, £19 11s 3d;…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →During the past week the total quantify of coal exported from Newcastle amounted to 78,931 tons, of which 39,911 tons were sent to foreign destinations, and 40,020 tons to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, Friday Evening.—The miners' unions at Johannesburg complain that the refusal of Lord Selborne, the Governor of the Transvaal, to proclaim polling day a holiday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mount Lyell Mining Company reports that at the 850ft level (No. 18 stope) bulk borings of ore gave 21½ per ent., main crosscut bulk borings 3¼ per cent., eastern crosscut 3 per…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The mine manager reports that the north drive in No. 3 winze is in 32ft, and showing good ore. The west drive in No. 2 winze is driven 37ft on a better grade of ore than…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Interviewed this afternoon, Mr. W. J. Loring, general manager in Australia for Messrs. Bewick, Moreing, and Co., expressed himself well pleased with the result of the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Regarding the hewing rate difficulty at the Western collieries, a miners' delegate meeting was held last night, when the reply of the owners; already published, was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →When interviewed last night the managor (Mr. J. S. Rowe) explained that the clippers had waited upon him and had agreed to accept the following terms:—Half of their number to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →In allowing its reserve to fall to the extraordinary low figure of just over £18,000,000 the Bank of England, in the opinion of many…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An amusing discussion arose at a recent meeting of the Dublin City Council over a proposal to supply the crew of the mud barge shamrock with uniforms of Irish…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dredging leases are being applied for at Delegate. Mr. F. B. Trude, of W.A., is at Gulgong buying interest in local…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LITHGOW, Friday.--The coal trade this week shows recovery an compared with last week's, when there was a failing off. The increase was mainly attributable to the shipping orders…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →This week has been a busy one in the coal export trade, although the total exports were not as heavy as last week. The quantity of coal exported from…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →BULLI, Friday.--The coal trade for the past week has been brisk, all the local collieries having worked full time, and the next pay will be a good one. The principal shipments at the…
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