The Coal Mines of Lens
Before the war Lens was a prosperous coal-mining town of about 28,000 people. It was the centre of the extensive and valuable coal basin in the department of Pas-de-Calais,…
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Before the war Lens was a prosperous coal-mining town of about 28,000 people. It was the centre of the extensive and valuable coal basin in the department of Pas-de-Calais,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The enthusiasm displayed during last week was not noted in operations on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday, though the optimistic feeling was re-c[?]oed in the firm…
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?] Lambert, 19, Saturday morn-ing entered the jewellery shop of Mr. D. Col-lins. George-street, City, and asked the atten-dant to show his a gold watch worth about…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The manager of the New Burragorang Silver-mining Company, reporting for the fortnight ended March 31, advised the despatch of 24 tons of ore to the smelters, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The strike of coal-miners in New Zealand as a protest against conscription has not yet been settled. Owing to the scarcity of coal, shipping facilities have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supplementing an earlier cable message, published in yesterday's Issue, the local (l[?]ckltika) director of Rlmu No. 1 Dredging Co yesterday cabled to the office of the company…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. R. H, Cambage, Under-Secretary for Mines, has furnished a return which shows that the gold yield recorded in N.S.W. for the month of March is 10,052oz crude, equal to…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →The position created through a dispute between the members of the Colliery Mechanics' Union, employed at East Greta Junction and colliery workshops, and the management of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →ZEEHAN (Tas) Tuesday.--A special meeting of the Mining Employees' Association, Lyell branch, held at Queenstown on Sunday, endorsed the resolution passed on the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Business was a trifle restricted in the mining section of the Sydney Stock Exchange. Practically all classes of scrip received attention, but no definite move was discernible in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →In connection with the coal strike the miners in the Buller district will take a ballot on the question of resuming work. At Dunedin a man named Coleman, a visitor…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Word was received in Sydney this morning that over 1600 members of the Federated Mine Employees' Association of Australia, at Mount Morgan, Queensland, had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WELLINGTON, Tuesday.--The miners at Waipa Colliery, Waikato. ceased work yesterday. From 150 to 200 men were Idle, but they resumed, work, to-day, and Will take a secret…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A dispute as to the interpretation of Justice McCawley's award on the question of preference to unionists at Mount Morgan culminated there on Monday morning in the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A full account of the C.J.C. (Canterbury) Autumn meeting is not yet to hand, but the tabled reports show that notwithstanding Sasanof was a good second with 8.9 in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is Just bordering on a year since the Australian Mining Corps embarked from Sydney on active service. It is still fresh in my memory, and when I reflect and think of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining scrip provided the bulk of the business transacted on the Stock Exchange to-day. Eastern tin interests monopolised the attention of operators, but values were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No work was done at the Blackheath colliery to-day, and as a result of the stoppage upwards of 150 men have been rendered Idle. It is stated that one of the men employed at…
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