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NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--Mr. David Watson's statement that the Abermain miners are striking because they were asked to work the colliery in a way involving personal danger, has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LAUNCESTON, Friday.--Developments at the Tasmania mine at Beaconsfield are being followed with keen interest, and in the city today there was considerable trafficking in shares…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →At the Tasmanian gold mine, Beaconsfield, the hanging-wall side of the lode shows 1ft of quartz, assaying 4dwt, followed by 10ft of country rock, and then quartz, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The wages board, which was appointed last year to fix the minimum rates to be paid in the gold mining industry, has submitted its determination. It provides different scales for quartz, alluvial, dredging, and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--The miners generally, without exception, in the Ballarat district are bitterly disappointed with the determination of the Gold Miners' Wages Board. Some time ago…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In regard to the rules of the proposed Federation of Coal and Shale Miners' Unions of Australia, and their possible bearing on the coal trade of the Newcastle district, our Wollongong…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The directors of the Bullfinch Proprietary have decided to purchase, subject to inspection, the 20 head of stampers of the Cosmopolitan Proprietary Company, at Kookynie, for…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The collieries did not work yesterday, aud the week's coal export business may be raid to have concluded on Thursday evening. The total quantity of coal exported from Newcastle during the week amounted to 62.282…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Speculators displayed, no eagerness to deal heavily in mining scrip on the local Exchange to-day, and the turnover was exceedingly small. Barrier interests attracted most attention. Junction North opened with a slight…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A number of gold ornaments, recovered from Lake Guatavita, Colombia, South America, were sold the other day in London. Many years ago it was the custom at the religious…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →An aggregate meeting of the members of the Western Miners' Association was held on Wednesday night to consider the proposed agreement with the Lithgow Coal Association. At the recent conference…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →LITHGOW, Friday.--The coal, trade for the past week shows, an upward tendency. The truck supply has been satisfactory. Anniversary Day being one of the holidays stipulated in the Western Collieries award, the collieries…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →WOLLONGONG, Friday.--The coal trade at the Kembla, Keira, Mount' Pleasant, and Corrimal mines is in a healthy condition. "Work every day" is the order of things, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The strike of miners at Abermain colliery, in the Maitland district, is causing a considerable amount of anxiety in colliery circles. It is one of the largest and most…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A three days' exhibition of landscape paintings, the work of Mr. Charles Martin, a middleaged artist, who labors in a coal mine by night and paints pictures by day, terminated recently…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--While sinking a hole in a yardeattached to the Bendigo Co-operative Company's Brewery, at Golden-square, preparatory to installing a lift, workmen to-day met…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →LONDON, Friday Evening—A sub-committee of miners and mine owners sat for three days in London endeavoring to find a basis for the settlement of the minimum wage question…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lord Aberconway, chairman of the Tredegar Iron and Coal Company, at the annual dinner of the staff, held at Cardiff. Wales, last month, said that the conditions of trade bound down…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →At the Horseshoe Mine, Kalgoorlie, this morning Harry Redman and Frank Dockring were working at the 1400ft. level when the lights went out owing to a hose coupling blowing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Executive of the N.S. Wales Public Disaster Relief Fund acknowledge the receipt of the following contributions towards alleviating the distress occasioned by the recent…
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