Control of Coal. Position in Queensland
BRISBANE, Thursday.--The announcement that the Commonwealth authorities had decided to relinquish the control of coal supplies was mentioned to-day to the Acting-Premier…
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Oil Scarcity. Naval and Merchant Ships Affected. Lorain Converted to Use Coal
As a result of the shortage of oil fuel in Australia and the impossibility of securing supplies, the owners of the United States and Australasia Line steamer Lorain, now…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold "Corpse."
DR[?]SSED in deep mourning, a man at Hamburg appiled for permission to [?]bask a co[?] for Norway. He filled in the necessary forms, with the name, place of death, and…
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WOLLONGONG, Friday.--At a meeting of the delegate board of the Illawarra miners it was stated that the Excelsior colliery was idle owing to the management altering the method of working the seam. The employees,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Gold and Frosty
[?] weather was still farly ge[?] Wales this morning. [?] were reported from [?] along the northern [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Notes
Vegetable Creek's' output for the past week was 5 tons of tin oxide. The manager of Mutooroo reports as follows: "Tessop shaft, 100ft level, 15…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hetton Coal Company, Ltd
The above company proposes to reconstruct under the name of Helton Bellbird Collieries, Limited, with an authorised capital of £1,000,000, in £1 shares, shareholders in the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Edward May to Load Coal
Having discharged her cargo of redwood, the American four-masted barquentine Edward May was to leave Melbourne on Thursday for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Popular Science: Motor Spirit From Australian Coal
THE world's future supplies of motor spirit is a subject which is attracting the attention of front-rank scientists everywhere. At present, most motor engines are driven by…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →South Coast Mines Majority Working Well WOLLONGONG
The majority of mines on the coast still continue to work well. The continued shortage of trucks, however prevails at one or two collieries at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Year's Strike. Celebrated by Barrier Miners. Broken Hill
The A.M.A. celebrated the first anniversary of the strike yesterday by a picnic and sports meeting on the western oval. There was a large crowd. The…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Red Wharf Mine. (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter I.--red Wharf
Darkness was falling when Philip Grey, returning from a holiday jaunt in the country, amongst the beautiful Hagga Hills, (where he had met with an adventure which, although he…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Premiers. Conference Opens. Coal Shortage. Interstate Rationing Suggested. Melbourne
The Premiers' Conference was opened this afternoon. The Lieutenant-Governor (Sir William Irvine) welcomed the delegates. The Acting Premier of Queensland (Mr. Fihelly),…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Premiers Confer. Ships and Coal. Federal Control Question. State Members' Disabilities
MELBOURNE, Friday.--The conference of Premiers was formally opened by Sir William Irvine, Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria, this afternoon…
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During the past week interest in the mining market has centred chiefly around Hill End gold stocks. A particularly heavy turnover has resulted at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Britain's Coal-getting London
The official survey of the coal- owners' activities in Britain declares that coal-getting now averages 258 per cent, over the amount produced in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining Bursaries and Scholarships Awarded
Some time ago the principal Base Metal Mining and Smelting and Coal Mining Companies of Australia subscribed a fund to provide bursaries and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Iron and Coal Australia's Great Wealth Enormous Reserves Melbourne
That Australia has largo deposits of coal and Iron is well known, but what quantities has never been stated. The following is an attempt to indicate by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Resolve WOLLONGONG
The Miners Delegate Board met this afternoon and discussed the position of the O.B.U. men at White Bay slles. The following resolution was carried:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australia's Coal and Iron
Anybody reading the figures on Australia's coal and iron deposits, published in one of our contemporaries yesterday, cannot but come to the conclusion that in course of time the country can snap its fingers at the whole world, so far as these particular commodities…
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