30 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. January 2, 1911. COHTENTS. PAGE Editorial Articles The Coal Trade in 913........................ 31 Safety Lamp Researches...................... 32 Articles :— The Coal Trade of 1913........................ 15 Pithead Baths at the Atherton Collieries, Lanca- shire ...................................... 25 Labour and Wages............................ 34 Mining and Other Notes ...................... 34 Electricity in Mines .......................... 35 A Knighthood for Dr. Garforth................. 35 Rescue Work in 1912 ................................................... 36 Resuscitation from Electric Shock .............. 36 Testing of Safety Lamps ...................... 37 Book Notices................................. 38 Working of the Coal Mines Act During 1912 ..... 39 Laminated Gears............................. 43 Coastwise Shipments During November ........ 43 Spontaneous Combustion in Coalmines.......... 43 The Freight Market .......................... 44 Obituary.................................... 44 Open Contracts............................... 45 Abstracts of Patent Specifications Recently Accepted 45 New Patents Connected with the Coal and Iron Trades .................................... 47 Catalogues and Price Lists Received............ 50 Government Publications ..................... 50 Publications Received ........................ 50 Continental Mining Notes ..................... 40 Notes from the Coalfields ..................... 41 Law Intelligence ........................;_______ 43 Coal, Iron and Engineering Companies ........ 45 The Coal and Iron Trades.............. 27—28, 32, 33 The By-Products Trade ...................... 29 The London Coal Trade ....................... 29 The Tin-plate Trade .......................... 32 Letters to the Editor: — The Home Office and Electric Lamps............ 43 Miscellanea :— Prize Competition for Method of Testing Auto- genous Welds ............................. 36 Hull Coal Exports ............................ 44 Grimsby Coal Exports ........................ 45 Coal in Ireland............................... 50 ______________________________________ ADVERTISEMENTS. ______ Offices for ADVERTISEMENTS and PUBLICATION- 30 & 31, Furnival Street, Holborn, London. 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A volume has been issued by the Home Office containing the General Regulations, Orders and Rules made under the Coal Mines Act, 1911, which were in force on November 1, 1913, together with the Home Office memoranda as to the tests for explosives and safety lamps, and certain other matter. The volume, which is entitled “ Coal Mines Act, 1911, Regulations and Orders,” is published (bound) at the price of 3s. (by post 3s. 4d.). Copies can be obtained from this office. His Majesty has conferred a knighthood upon Dr. William Edward Garforth, president of the Institution of Mining Engineers. An explosion occurred on Monday at the Great Western Colliery, Pontypridd, two men losing their lives. About 2,000 men were engaged in the pit at the time of the accident. To - day (Friday), at Cardiff, Mr. R. A. S. Bedmayne, Chief Inspector of Mines, will open the Home Office enquiry into the circumstances attending the disastrous explosion at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd, on October 14. Mr. Redmayne will have the assistance of Mr. Evan Williams, chairman of the South Wales Coalowners’ Association, and Mr. Robert Smillie, president of the Miners’ Federa- tion of Great Britain, who will act as assessors. If the present arrangements are carried out, the coroner’s inquest will take place at Senghenydd on Monday next, so that the two investigations would proceed simultaneously, a procedure both incon- venient and impracticable. As independent chairman of the District Board for South Wales established under the Miners’ Minimum Wage Act, Lord St. Aldwyn has issued a revised award. The practical result of the award is that the workers in the South Wales coalfield have been given the minima of 5s. and 2s. per day for adults and boys respectively which the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain sought to get embodied in the Act. 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