Coal for Victorian Railways
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Just before the new year the Railway Commissioners accepted an offer by the Austral Coal Company, Glpps-land, to supply the department with 70,000 tons…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Just before the new year the Railway Commissioners accepted an offer by the Austral Coal Company, Glpps-land, to supply the department with 70,000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At last night's meeting of the Wharf-laborers' union, £25 was, voted towards the Coal-lumpers who are out on strike. This amount had hitherto been voted at each meeting to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A consignment of 600 tons of Auckland coai arrived here yesterday from New Zealand, by the Norwegian steamer Inga,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The output of the Harden gold mine for the month of January is valued at approximately £2750 from 1000 tons treated. No. 5 level east was advanced, to 210ft. during the past week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Quito has completed discharging her cargo of Calcutt coal, and is now at anchor in Rose Bay, for fumigation purposes. This latter proceeding is regarded as rather peculiar,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday Afternoon.—The Compulsory Wages Board resumed at the Council Chambers this morning. The room was crowded, as usual…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The South Blocks mill for the month [?] January treated 7620 tons crudes, assaying 16.1 per cent. lead, 2.6oz silver, and 9.8 per cent. zinc producing 1512 tons leady concentrates,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On Tuesday there was further weakness In Broken-hill scrip on the London Stock Exchange, and lend fell is 3d, to £13 10s; hence the weakness shown locally yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is anticipated that the waten, supply at the Mount Bischoff Company's mine will prove good for all requirements during the remainder of the summer months…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →While the first two vessels filled with foreign coal were still discharging another one entered the harbour yesterday. The D[?]n of Airlie, which was heard of when the Quito…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An explosion occurred yesterday in a colliery at Drakesbro, Kentucky. Forty miners were entombed. Twenty bodies have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following vessels were entered outwards at the Newcastle Customs-house yesterday:— Zambesi, s, for Sydney (for docking), in ballast; Glaucus, s, for Melbourne, via Port…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Burns, Philp liner Guthrie left for Singapore this morning, getting away from Circular Quay soon after 10 o'clock. She had taken in about 700 tons of Calcutta coal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Railway traffic in wheat, despite the great harvest and high prices ruling, has not so far attained anything like the volume anticipated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →KURRI KURRI, Wednesday.--At the Police Court this morning, before Mr. M'Kensey, P.M., Ivor Augustus Gaskill was charged with using insulting words at Cessnock on January 24…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There was a fair amount of business in mining shares on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday morning but as the result of London cables advising a further drop in lead and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A sum of money was last year placed upon the Estimates tor the purpose of making practicable the appointment of a limited number of special wardens under the Mines Department,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Wednesday Evening.—The victims by the explosion in the Colorado Iron and Coal Company's mine at Primero were Slavs, Italians, and Hungarians…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It now transpires that the last strike pay distributed by the South Clifton Miners' Lodge amounted to only 9s 6d per man, and not 12s 6d, as proviously reported. There has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Port Jackson S.S. Co. has secured 500 tons of the Quito's cargo of Calcutta coal, The hulk Governor Blackall was put alongside the Quito, and took in the…
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