The "Star" Cake. Bakes for Mr. Joseph Cook. From Coal to Coalitions
The Australian Star · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 1
Mr. Joseph Cook, M.P., leader of the Opposition, ex-Postmaster-General, to you the Cake Mr. Cook has been in many things fortunate. His entry into Parliament, both…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South Coast Mines. a Brisk Week. the New Agreement. to Be Referred to Lodges. (From Our Special Reporter.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 5
The coal trade has been very brisk during the week, most of the mines working full time. The annual meeting of delegates of the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association, held…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal-carters
The Australian Star · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 6
The Coal-carters' Wages Board commenced their sitting in the Water Summons Court to-day. The board consists of Mr. T. E. Spencer, as chairman, Messrs. J. Johnston…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Lumper's Fall
The Australian Star · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 3
About noon yesterday Frank Costello, aged 23, a coal lumper, living in Kent-street, city, was wheeling coal on a plank at tho Balmain New Ferry Company's wharf at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Coal Hoist
The Australian Star · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 8
James. L. Lawson, in a letter to the Newcastle "Herald," referring to the work of the new M'Myler : coal hoist at Newcastle, declares that there will haw to be a very great improvement in the machine…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining Notes
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 10
The North Broken Hill last week treated 2640 tons of ore producing 465 tons of concentrates, assaying 71 per cent lead 21oz silver and 6.4 per cent, zinc…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bunker Coal Catches Fire
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 12
A fire was discovered on the 10th inst. in the bunker coal of the steamer Wotan, lying in port at Port Pirie. It had evidently been proceeding for…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →In and About the Mines
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 4
The following additional gold yields were reported for the past week:--Associated No. 1, 31oz. for 120 hours' work; Associated No. 2, 55oz. for 135 hours; Turon River No. 2, 42oz…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poisoned by Gas. in Curlewis Colliery. Gunnedah
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 6
Dr, M'Lean was called out to Curlewis this morning, to attend a number of men who were poisoned by gas in the local colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Mining Trouble
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 8
Sir Joseph Ward states that the mining trouble will be referred to a Parliamentary committee as a preliminary to amending legislation. The mine-owners are apparently…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rushworth Mine Mystery. Diver at Work
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 8
MELBOURNE, Monday.--Arrangements were completed this morning for the diving operations in the shaft of the Rushworth mine, from which portions of the bodies of a man and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining. the Share Maeket
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 10
There was very little to guide the market in the morning as to the state of the London Stock Exchange, as the private cables quoted an unusually meagre list of shares, and then…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining. Principal Sections Firm
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 4
Yesterday's trade on the Sydney Exchange was about equal, in point of volume, to that lately reported, and was confined practically to copper and silver-lead. Elsewhere two of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Request From Wood and Coal Merchants
The Australian Star · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 3
A deputation, representing the Western Suburbs Wood and Coal Merchants' Association, waited upon the Railway Commissioner a yesterday to ask that auction sales…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatalities and Accidents. Coal Lumper Injured
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 8
Fred Costello, a coal lumper, residing at Kent-street, while wheeling a skip of coal along a plank, at the Balmain New Ferry Company's wharf, Waterview Bay, slipped and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle. Coal and Other Exports. Newcastle
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 8
The following vessels cleared at the Customs-house to-day:—Purley, s, for United Kingdom, via Melbourne, with 500 tons of bunkers; Elvaston, s, for Honolulu, with 6810…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Emmaville Mining. Copper Lodes. Emmaville
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 10
Mr. C. Carter is working on his copper show at Bold Nob, about two miles from Emmaville. This property is under offer to a Barraba syndicate, who have a two months' option…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining in the State. Millthorpe
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 10
The Ballarat tributors are again crushing. They are putting through stone being raised from the west end. The dirt prospects, about 15dwt to the ton…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Amalgamated Miners' Association's Claim. Against the Proprietary Company. the Company's Reply
Evening News · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 5
The following is a copy of the reply filed this i afternoon with Mr. G. C. Addison, N.S.W. Registrar of the Federal Arbitration Court, by Messrs. Minter, Simpson, and Company…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gulf Tin-mining. Rain Much Needed. Emmaville
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 10
Mining is now beginning to get into full swing again after the holidays and in the course of a few weeks there is every prospect of renewed activity on the field. Rain is…
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