Miners Threat. To Cease Work. HOBART
By a secret ballot of 127 votes to 18, a stopwork meeting of the Amalgamated Engineering Union at Queenstown this afternoon decided that unless the union's case is heard…
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Dangers of Work in Mines Melbourne
The secretary of the A.C.T.U., Mr. Crofts, to-day announced that he had received a copy of the resolution carried by the Labor Council of N.S.W., expressing alarm at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →How Gold Rod Galloped Away with Futurity
UNWINDING A SENSATIONAL BURST OF SPEED, after his chance had looked almost hopeless at the home turn, Gold Rod won the Futurity Stakes at Caulfield, on Saturday. He was fallowed home by Pamelus (2), Young Idea (3), Country Party (4,), Regular Bachelor (5), Plymouth Sound (6), Press Gang (7), Cuddle (8), and Beechwood (9)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining the Share Market. a Moderate Reaction
Earlier large advances in base-metal shares had provided scope for downward reaction in yesterday's market, especially as all metal prices, excepting tin, had undergone a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →General Cable News. Price Op Gold. London, Feb. 24
Gold was quoted to-day at £7/2/2½ an ounce fine, compared with £7/2/1½ yesterday. SALVATIONIST'S DEATH. The Salvation Army has received news from…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Money, Mines and Markets Tooheys' New Issue Increase In Dividend Rate
For the first time since 1926, the directors of Tooheys, Ltd., are making a new capital issue. Financing in recent years has been arranged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stolen Gold Embedded in Chocolates. Box Found in Shop. Christchurch
A strange story of the alleged theft of gold was told in the Greymouth Magistrates' Court to-day. Early in October, a box containing…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Use of Electricity in Mines Drastic Action Is Forecast In Britain Disaster Echo London
PROSECUTIONS in connection with the, Gresford Colliery disaster, in which 265 lives were lost September, 1934, are under…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Novels And Novelties Real Live, Wild Men Of Borneo Have Boxes Crammed with Gold
CAPTAIN BOWKER sitting on the faff rail of the schooner Merry Maid idly smoking nigger head tobacco, cursing Macao, and wondering when the stench of his late trepang cargo would leave the ship was as close to becoming a pessimist as he ever will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Finance And Commerce Markets And Mining Metal Stocks Recover From Weak Opening
SPECULATIVE influences produced erratic fluctuations in base metal stocks yesterday. A sharp reverse in copper, lead, and zinc accentuated the previous day's profit-taking, but after a weak opening, the market closed showing a substantial…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →"The Referee's" Notebook of the TURF Gold Rod's Futurity Victory Made Racing History Phar Lap Could Not Have Given Pamelus Such A Start
IN winning the 40th Caulfield Futurity Stakes, the champion Sydney colt, Gold Rod, made racing history. He carried 9.4, and established a weight-carrying record for a three-year-old in this event. Gold Rod appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Referee's Breeding Page Class Triumphed in Futurity Stakes Gold Rod's Performances Best Ever For One of His Age Beat Toughest Field for Years
GOLD ROD'S brilliant victory in the Caulfield Futurity Stakes in heavy rain, and carrying 131b extra, may be regarded as the best recorded by a horse of his age in Australia. He met the strongest field of class horses seen in this race for many years—indeed, one…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Top-weights Given Every Chance for Doncaster But Young Idea Appears Best of Them For Mile Prospects Gold Rod Earns an Unusual Handicap Raging Review
A NOMINATION of 116 for the Doncaster gives the race a formidable appearance, but a glance through the weights reveals that the entry comprises many, poor horses who have no right in such a class race, and, no doubt, when first acceptance arrives they will drop out as quickly as they went in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colliery Closes
LITHGOW, Thursday.--The entire staff of Oakey Park colliery received notice of dismissal today. The colliery has been working only…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Northern Mines Idle
CESSNOCK, Thursday. -- Bellbird Colliery was thrown idle this morning by a dispute between the miners and the management…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australians Should Exploit Their Mines
"Why don't Australians exploit their own mines?" asked Sir George Rowley Hill, who arrived in Sydney by the Orontes yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →First Stay-in Strike in Australia Staged in Coal Mine Barricades Wired to 600-Volt Mains Newcastle
ARMED with cases of gelignite, detonators and fuses. 30 miners have begun a stay-in strike at North Wallarah Colliery. They have barricaded themselves in the haulage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scotland Yard To Probe Mine Blast
LONDON, Thursday.--Under instructions from the Director of Public Prosecutions, two Scotland Yard officers have begun inquiries into the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Application. Goulburn
At the Goulburn Mining Wardens Court, before Mr. Britz, application was made by Nesbitt. Napier Lougher a mining engineer, of Narrabeen, for the cancellation of a mining…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wonthaggi Mine Disaster Immediate Grants to Dependents Melbourne
To meet necessitous cases on the coalfields, grants from public subscriptions would be made immediately through the Mayor of…
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