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The Premier, Mr. Asquith, replying to a question by Mr. W. Field (Nationalist), said he was unable to regard favourably a suggestion that the coalfields should be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →With the near approach of the date set by the men for the stoppage of all coal mining work in Great Britain, the hope of averting the calamity has become slighter…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A few thousand miners at the Shirian[?] and Alfreton pits, in Derbyshire, "downed tools", to-day in sympathy with the strike movement…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Andrew Archibald (61), a shiftsman, employed at the Abermain colliery, who had several ribs tractured and was injured internally through being ruh over by a skip at the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cope's Creek dredge ran for 132 34 hours in blowing in concentrates. A race was also cut. North Broken-hill mill last week treated 4520 tons of crude ore, assaying 16.3 per cent. lead…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Colliery Employees' Federation has an ingenious method of escaping from an awkward situation. Such a situation occurred recently at Northumberland colliery, one of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →According to the New York "Engineering and Mining Journal," the world's production of gold in 1911 was £97,043,626, as compared with £96,219,950 in 1910. There were fairly…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The gross revenue during last year of the New South Wales Aimers' Accident Relief Fund was £63,855 18s 6d, an increase of £9229 12s 5d, as compared with the previous year…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Brisbane strike committee's representative in Sydney, Mr. Collins, member for Burke (Q.), returned from the southern mining fields to-day. On Sunday Mr. Colling…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The annual report of the Miners Accldent Belief Fund has been presented to Parliament. The provisions of the Act rovers 1[?]0 miles during the year, but before its close 22 of these…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the British mine, No. 150 bore, being drilled from the north-west corner of No. 8 level stope, going in a north-easterly direction, now carries 130tt of good ore…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →It having been suggested by Mr. M'Donald, in the Legislative Assembly, by way of question, that the financial status of the wardens under the Mining Act. 1906. should be improved, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There was no life in business in any section of the Sydney mining market yesterday; in fact, trade in copper and tin shares was at a standstill, and the silver-lead and gold lines…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A fire broke out in the mine of the Western Coal Company, at Coalgate, U.S.A., and eighty men were cut off. Many dashed for safely, escaping in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Abermain colliery employees are still on strike. The ballot through the district regarding the granting of strike pay has closed. It is expected that it will be carried…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →To-day's sales were:—Bonnie Dundee, [?] Block Ex [?] tended), 3/1. (paid) 5/. 5/1: Clark's [?] Mexiean, 3/2, paid 3/6, 3/7; Kutamadau, 2/7; Marshall's 2/4; Cross, /6; Papuan, 1/1…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sir,—Last Saturday you published a letter from "Opal Fever" anent the grievances of the opal gougers at Lightning Ridge. For the most part, he was a day after the fair. Since…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Monday Evening.—Mr winaton Churchill, First Lard of the Admiralty, has announced that in the event of a general coal strike, the British [?] will be independent of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--As is well known, a workmen's train is run from Wollongong to Clifton and back daily, for the bench of miners and other workmen engaged on day work, and a workman's weekly ticket is issued at a reduced rate…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A manifesto just issued by the Christian Miners, deprecates a sympathetic strike, both on political and national grounds. It states: "The British miners, by their ambiguous…
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