Fire Raging in Old Colliery Workings
NEWCASTLE, Friday.--Fire has broken out at the abandoned workings of Cessnock No. 2 Colliery. Smoke and flames are belching from the workings, which…
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Strikers Miss Mine Blast
NEW YORK, April 19 (A.A.P.). —The worst coalmine disaster in Virginia's history occurred yesterdays when all but a fraction of…
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The coal shortage is so acute in Sydney that the County Council Electricity Undertaking has only one week's supply (15,000 tons) in reserve…
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CESSNOCK, Saturday.-- Cessnock No. 2 Colliery is on fire, and dense black smoke, issuing from fissures caused by…
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CESSNOCK, Saturday.--Cessnock No. 2 Colliery is on fire, and dense black smoke, issuing from fissures caused by…
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CESSNOCK, Saturday.--Cessnock No. 2 Colliery is on fire, and dense black smoke, issuing from fissures caused by…
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CESSNOCK, Saturday.-- Cessnock No. 2 Colliery is on fire, and dense black smoke, issuing from fissures caused by…
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LONDON, Friday.--Discovery of a rich gold-bearing reef in South Africa must be treated with caution, says the Financial…
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A huge pall of smoke is drifting across the town of Cessnock, and a golf green has disappeared through the one cause…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →World's News Review Coal in Malaya
IN Malaya, British sappers and engineer units have got coal production going. This had been virtually stopped by Japanese mismanagement. Malaya's…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Melbourne is again threatened with gas rationing, due to delay in arrival of coal ships, as a result of storms…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Melbourne is again threatened with gas rationing, due to delay in arrival of coal ships, as a result of storms in…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Melbourne is again threatened with gas rationing, due to delay in arrival of coal ships, as a result of storms in…
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CESSNOCK, Saturday.—A heavy pall of smoke is blanketing the town as gangs of volunteers fight the rapidly spreading fire in Cessnock No. 2 colliery. An explosion near the tunnel this morning blew two men about…
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OUR chronic coal shortage keeps us in a constant state of jitters. Because we have no reserves,…
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[Witwaters' Rand and its gold rush probably hastened the birth of the Union of South Africa. Now this little town of Odendaal's Rust may see the growth of a second Johannesburg, because: --] GOLD,valued at £1,578,[?]…
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CESSNOCK, Saturday.—Cessnock is covered tonight by a billowing pall of acrid, soot-laden smoke, through which flames intermittently roar 50 feet into the air…
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CESSNOCK, Sat.--Volunteers fought day and night yesterday to check the fire creeping through…
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The surest way to get closest to the earth's stomach is to go down a South African gold mine…
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SYDNEY'S acute coal shortage, which has led to an appeal to the public to conserve electricity and…
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