Coal Dust. a Question of Temperature
LONDON, Monday.--The special Home Office Committee, which has recently been engaged investigating the causes of fire outbreak in coal mines has made the important…
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Creep in a Mine. a Timely Precaution
PERTH, Monday.--At Bullfinch, W.A., yesterday morning at 5 o'clock, there was an extensive earth creep over the square set of timbering that has been adopted in the Bullfinch…
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An official report issued by the general manager of the B.H. Junction North mine states:—"Bore[?]ole No. 203 (section 11) cut fair grade [?]re at 18ft above No. 12 level."…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners G.o.m. Mr. Thomas Burt Seriously Ill
LONDON, Monday.--Mr. Thomas Burt, M.P., the veteran miners' leader and the doyen of British trades-unionists, lies seriously ill at his home in Wales…
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Edgeroi.—The sample of stone you forwarded has been analysed by the Government Mines Department, the officers of which state that the…
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Work is in full swing again since the ho[?]days at the Cadia copper mine, and smelting is running full time. The recent rain was badly wanted at this raining township. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Coal Porters' Strike. Pacific Moves Flouted. Demand for Solidarity. London, Tuesday Morning
The position in the strike of coal porters is no better. Yesterday the chairman of the Coal Merchants' Society announced from the floor of the Coal Exchange that the…
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A private cable received in Sydney this afternoon from London States that the prospectus of the Plymouth Consolidated Gold Mines has been issued, and that the…
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A fire which broke out in No. 1 tunnel of East Greta Colliery, on January 25, proved ignore serious than was at first expected. There were no indications of fire at 5.30 a.m.,…
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Simmons and party, on what is known as Jack Ward's Reef; at Enmore, situated 21 miles from Uralla and 23 miles from Armidale, had a 5-ton parcel crushed at the Goldsworth…
Continued on Trove, page 55 →Newcastle. Coal Miners. the Afternoon Shift. Newcastle
The case for the abolition of the afternoon shift, which was opened during last week's sittings of the Miners' 'Wages Board, was continued to-day, when a fresh claim was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Colliery Unrest. Miners' Afternoon Shift. Before Wages Board. Question of Jurisdiction
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--At the Northern Miners' Wages Board this morning Mr. A. Lewis (employees) put in his amended claims concerning the afternoon shift. The claims…
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WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.--It is reported that the seals at the No. 1 tunnel of the East Greta Colliery arc holding well. No. 2 tunnel has not been affected by the fire, and work…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--At the Miners' Wages Board to-day, Mr. Kelynack, counsel for the colliery proprietors, again referred to the inconvenience caused by strikes of wheelers…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mines and Mining. Activity in Barriers. Quotations Again Strengthen, Bullfinch Recovers
An exceedingly strong market predominated for Broken Hill silver scrip on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day. The turnover was not large, this being due to the great…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--Mr. D. Watson, president of the Colliery Employees' Federation, at to-day's meeting of the delegate board, referred to the fire ut East Greta colliery, by…
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The coal strikers are granting permits for the hospitals to be supplied, but they have refused to grant the Salvation Anny a permit on the ground that it was the intention of the…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The Pacific Lodge, through its delegate, at to-day's meeting of the delegate board, submitted a motion that the executive owners arrange with other…
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The following motion was passed at to-day's meeting of the miners' delegate board,— "That the executive officers be instructed to oppose strenuously any references as urgent…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation to-day carried a motion affirming that legislative provision should be made to prevent men working…
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