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An important shipping contract was announced yesterday with the Broken-hill Proprietary, Limited. Under the contract arrangements have been concluded for a period of three years…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →AN AMAZING discovery was made while the Union-Castle coasting steamer Tiger was being unloaded at Capetown Docks. Coal was being removed from No. 4 hold when a gasp…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Of the many interesting mining propositions in New South Wales, few attract more wide-spread attention than the work at the Mount Ross diamond and tin mine, in the Copoton…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Another example of the great usefulness of the State's industrial Department afforded [?] Monday, when the [?] strike on the South [?] on the question…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Further serious trouble was averted at Hebburn colliery this morning. In deference to the decision of the Maitland conference, which accepted the Industrial…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The second ballot in connection with officers of the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association resulted in James Maguire being elected president, Mat Sharpies (Balmain) check…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A vessel for laying submarine mines, which has just been built in England for the Russian Government, was being sailed to the Baltic by an English crew of six with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Southern Miners' Wages Board resumed . its sitting this week, when some important evidence was given by David Duncombe, an employee at the South Bulli Colliery, the largest…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A report covering the three weeks ended December 20 from the Grafton copper mine, states that A No. 1 winze bad been sunk 12ft., D cast winze 14ft. 6in. to 20ft 6in., and A .No. 3 winze 4ft. 6in. to 55ft. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Work at the collieries of the Newcastle and Maitland districts during the fortnight ended on Saturday was slack, as most of the mines closed down from Christmas Eve until…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Only a few collieiles in the Newcastle and Maitland district during the past fortnight worked more than the three days preceding Christmas The maximum number of days…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The coaldust committee appointed by Mr. Edden, Minister for Mines, has inspected a number of collieries in the various districts. Advertisements were inserted in the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →After a holiday extending over ten days business was resumed on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day. The new year, however, saw mining scrip almost neglected, as at the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The shipments of coal by the Government appliances of the port during the year 1913 show an increase of 233,369 tons, as compared with the previous 12 months…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A meeting of the Hebburn miners was held this morning. when Mr. Watson advised that a variation of the colliery employees' award should be applied for on Monday. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The manager's report of the progress made at the Mammoth copper mine during the fortnight ended December 31 shows that No. 2 south drive, in the Chieftain mine, has advanced 27ft., or a total of 488ft. from…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Stock Exchange will be reopened today after the Christmas and New Year holidays. Shareholders in the William's Fancy…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →KURRI KURRI, Saturday.--The last cause of trouble, which it was feared would yet be the means of stopping the collieries here has disappeared. The cavills will be drawn at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →WOLLONGONG, Saturday.--Mr. A. Willis, miners' general secretary, stated yesterday that the figures in connection with the ballot for the election of office bearers of the association…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, Friday Evening.--At the Home Office inquiry into the Senghenydd colliery disaster, Shaw, the mine-manager, gave evidence that the mine was "gassy" and "dusty."…
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