Woman Injured in a Mine
BATHURST, Thursday.--Mrs. Westaway wife of a miner employed at Torbane mine, noar Bathurst, fractured her leg yesterday as a result of trying to extricate her husband from…
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Miners' Conference. Obstacle to Settlement
The conference of the Miners' Federation, contrary to the advice of the executive, passed a resolution that the Minimum Wage Bill will not be acceptable unless it provides a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Nine Lives Lost. Miners' Dwellings Wrecked
SCRANTON (Pennsylvania), Wednesday Evening.--An underground gas explosion wrecked 20 dwellings in the Dunmore mining district. Two families were either blown to pieces or…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Enemies Increasing. Goal Mines Bill. Hostility to Coal Bill. Opposition Antagonistic. Mr. Balfour to Move Rejection. "Situation Radically Altered."
LONDON. Thursday.--A meeting of leading Opposition members was held yesterday, and it was decided that the provisions of the Government's Coalmines Bill in favor of a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Labour Troubles. Strikers' Positions. Dispute at Colliery. Ipswich (Q.)
When the miners agreed to return to work at the time the general strike was declared off reference was made to the existence of trouble at Wright's Tivoli colliery over the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →American Colliery Trouble. Big Closing-down Imminent. Cleveland, March 21
The bituminous coal operators have conferred with the representatives of 200,000 miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in regard to the existing wages…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Non- Union Miners. Trouble at a Queensland Works
IPSWICH, Thursday.--Three men who were formerly employed at the Eclipse Mine, and who, during the strike, became unionists, have not been reinstated, with the result that the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Gas Explosions. 78 Miners Entombed. All Believed Dead
FORT SMITH (Arkansas), Wednesday Evening.--Reports telephoned here Indicate that a great mining disaster has occurred at the mine of the San Bols Coal Company, at MacCurtaln, in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle. Coal and Other Exports. Newcastle
The following vessels were cleared at the Customs-house, Newcastle, to-day:—Manusa Maru, s, for Manila, with 5479 tons coal cargo, 882 tons bunkers, 102 tons bran, and 152 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Not Even for Relief. German Coal Taboo
LONDON, Wednesday Evening.--The Middles--borough Corporation imported German coal for the purposes of the relief committee, whereupon the dock workers refused to unload it…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Missing Gold. Arrest in Tasmania Melbourne
Last night Superintendent Gleeson, of the Criminal Investigation Branch, received a telegram from Tasmania stating that a man had been apprehended at Launceston for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stop-press News American Mine Explosion New York
The rescue parties at the San Bois Coal Co.'s mine, in MacCurtain. Oklahoma, the scene of Tuesday's dreadful explosion. have recovered alive 25 of the entombed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining in the State. Albury
A local syndicate, prospecting in the Hawkesview Ranges, recently struck auriferous quartz. Four and a half tons, treated at Cockle Creek, yielded an average of 2oz per…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Stumbling--block. Miners' Federation. Triumph of Wales and Scotland
LONDON. Wednesday Evening.--The Miners' Federation Conference, contrary to the advice tendered by the executive, passed a resolution declaring that the Government bill is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Over a Hundred Killed. American Mine Tragedy. New York
Latest reports from M'Curtain, Oklahoma, state 105 men have been killed by the explosion in the San Bois Coal Company's mine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boom in Mount Elliott. New Development. Mine Value Advances £82,500
As the result of a sudden advance in the shares of Mount Elliott, Limited, yesterday, the market value of the mine increased by £82,500…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Great Coal Strike. Minimum Wage Bill Introduced in Britain
With a view of forcing a settlement of the coal dispute in Great Britian, Mr. Asquith, prime Minister, has introduced a Minimum Wage Bill in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Mining Calamity. Fort Smith (Arkansas), March 20
Roports received by telephone indicate that a great mining disaster has occurred at the property of the San Bo[?]s Coal Company…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Broken Hill Block 10 Mine. New Mill at Work. Broken Hill
The B.H. Block 10 mine started production from underground on three shifts on Monday, and one section of the new mill, which has been running for adjustments, and has…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Seventy-two Oz. of Gold. Alleged Illegal Possession. Launceston
Detectives to-day arrested in Launceston John Beresford, aged 33, who described himself as a miner from Queensland, on a charge of being found in possession of 72oz retorted…
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