Paper Money Drop in Circulation Bigger Gold Backing
The customary year-end increase in the Australian notes issue, which in December last sent the total upwards by £ 3,400,000 to £51,793,226 10s, has…
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Money, Mines & Markets City Gossip Squatting Co. Fertilisers' Finances Pastoralists' Perplexities
Over its proprties the Squatting Investment Co., Ltd., experienced, during the 14 months to November last, unusually dry weather. Addressing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Torrent From Burst Dam Drowns a Man Colliery Is Flooded at Lithgow -- Houses Inundated Torrential Rain
LITHGOW, Sunday. -- A man was drowned and a colliery flooded at Lithgow this afternoon, when the auxiliary water supply dam broke and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Safety Hospital Patients Moved Three More Deaths Torrent Bursts Into Cobar Mine
From two to five inches of rain overnight has intensified the menace in the North. With the [?]ood swirling into the main street, Grafton shopkeepers were working rapidly at 2 a.m. to-day removing their stock. The river reached 22 feet 6…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Marts — Money — Mines and Maritime Cheaper Bacon But Dearer Eggs Floods and Butter
FOR SOME TIME the inquiry for bacon, due probably to the very hot weather has been on the [?] side. The increasing rates for eggs make the task…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Beat Moses Rock Yields Gold Coins Boy's Lucky Day London
A 13-year-old boy named Ernest Smith was beating for a shooting party in a Hampshire wood when he picked up a large round flint and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cloud Burst Raging Torrent in Creek Course Diverted Tears Into Cobar Mine Lithgow
A cloud burst at 2 o'clock yesterday over Paddy's Creek, an auxiliary water supply to Lithgow, and in a few seconds…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →E. R. Sterling May Not Put to Sea Again "Make Fine Houseboat" or British Coal Hulk LONDON
The barquentine E. R. Sterling, which was partially dismasted on a voyage from Adelaide to London, and which had to be towed from the West…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Relentless Floods Take Tragic Toll Throughout State Death and Destruction in Track of Storm Floods Take Life and Livelihood Man Is Swept From His Back Yard Another Drowned in River Mine Damaged to the Extent of £500,000 Trains Still Held Up
TWO victims were claimed during the week-end by the flood that are sweeping the State. A Lithgow resident went into his, backyard, which abuts on a creek, and was hurled into the water and drowned as u section of the bank…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lithgow Colliery Flooded
LITHGOW, Monday.--When the auxiliary water supply dam broke yesterday and flooded Farmer's Creek the torrent overflowed the banks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rush From Flooded Mine Lithgow Workers Barrier Collapsed Fears for Other Collieries Lithgow
WITH the collapse of a barrier of earth, Ironworks Tunnel mine was flooded this afternoon, and a number of workers were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dividends Payable. Mining
Broken Hill South, Ltd., dividend of 1/- per share, payable on February 24. Tin Bentong: 1/ a share and bonus of 1/ a share; payable March 17…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining. the Share Market
Mining shares were neglected yesterday, and the slight volume of business passing reflected additional weakness. A. buyer of Zine Corporation moved up /1½, at 36/1½. to make a…
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Guinea Gold Co. advises that intimation has been received from Territory Investments, Ltd., of Sydney (the holder of an option ever the area on the Bulolo River, known as the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Miners' Affairs Disputed Report Mr. James' Version
REPLYING to a statement by Mr. D. Rees, president of the Miner's Federation, Mr. R. James, councillor, stated last night:"The attention of Mr. Neilson and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Cloudburst. At Lithgow. Mines in Danger. Lithgow
Despite the feverish activity of a large gang of men from the ironworks to divert the stream to its former channel, the waters of Farmer's Creek, which was swollen by a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Money, Mines & Markets City Gossip Money From Movies Greater J. D. Williams
Although the Greater J. D. Williams Amusement Co., Ltd., has paid dividends at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum in each year since 1923, its…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Marts — Money — Mines. and Maritime Good Demand for Prime Potatoes Onions Are Scarce
THERE is a keen inquiry for prime [?] potatoes at £7/10/- ton for brownells and £[?] for [?]. THE HEAVY rains in N.S.W. have caused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Surging Waters Take Further Toll Death Roll Grows; Wide Desolation Colliery Swamped; Workers Flee for Lives Clarence River Rising Rail Delays Continue
DISASTROUS FLOODS are still sweeping the State, and in the wake of the surging waters are death, destruction and desolation. Reports from the country are delayed, but those to hand at a late hour last night showed that the fatalities now total eight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unemployed Look for Bavin But He Was Busy in Cabinet Boyce Will Terrorise Razor Gangs Coal Conference Agenda Agreed to Next Parliamentary Session
WHILE Mr. Bavin's first Cabinet meeting since his return was being held yesterday, the unemployed took a hand in the proceedings. A large [?] assembled in the vicinity of the Treasury; and about fifty rushed up the front steps of the building, and despite the protestations of the…
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