A Gold Medallist. London, Tuesday Night
Miss Rene Maxwell, an ex-Sydneyite has been awarded the gold medal for singing at the Guildhall School of Music…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1916
359 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 18
Another Coal Strike
Two hundred and fifty men ceased work at Bulli colliery, owing to a dispute with the management over wages. Two other adjoining collieries employing 850 hands are idle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Discontent Among Coal-miners. Sydney
Ferment is said to exist among coal-miners in New South Wales over the question of working hours. The union secretary says that officials are finding it difficult to keep men at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Patriotic Miners. London
The Scottish miners at the instance of the Minister for Munitions have postponed the July holidays…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Conference. British Miners "Doing Their Bit." "Food Exploiters Worse Than Dick Turpin." London
At the annual conference of the British Miners' Federation, held at Buxton, and representing three-quarters of a million men, Mr. Smillie, the president, affirmed that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The French Account. Mine Exploded. Heavy Hun Attacks Defeated
PARIS, Thursday Night. A French communique states: There has been an intermittent cannonade on the Somme. We penetrated a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Collieries. More Trouble Anticipated. Sydney
It is expected that every colliery in the eastern States and probably in the Commonwealth will be idle one day next week to allow of aggregate meetings to be held to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collieries Idle. More Trouble in Maitland District. Sydney
The Pelaw Main and Stanford Merthyr collieries, in the Maitland district, are idle today, owing to the colliery mechanics objecting to the award governing the rates and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Coal Strike. Four Thousand Men Affected. Sydney
All the colliery mechanics on the Maitland coalfield have ceased work. Twelve collieries are idle, and over four thousand men are affected. The men complain that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Coal Strike Over. Sydney
The coal strike at the Maitland coalfields, has been settled. The proprietors' offer has been accepted, and work will be resumed to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Miners. an Eight-hour Day. Sydney
Coalminers in Australia have held their aggregate meetings, and from every field has come practically an unanimous demand for eight hours day from bank to bank…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Maitland Collieries. Maitland
A early all the Maitland collieries resumed work this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Price of Coal. Welsh Miners' Federation. Protest Against Increased Prices. London
The Miners' Federation Executive unanimously protested against the Board of Trade allowing the South Wales coalowners to increase prices, and urged Labor members to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Coal Strike. Melbourne
The engine drivers and firemen at the Victorian State coal mine struck work for higher wages…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Old Gold and Silver War Fund
One of our recent issues contained an appeal by the committee of the above fund, asking for gold and silver articles of any and every description. We now remind those…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. a Mistake. Edna May Central Mine. Sudden Rise and Slump. Melbourne
Some excitement was caused in the Melbourne Stock Exchange yesterday. A mistake in a telegram from Edna May Central mine said that the value of an assay was 720s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colliery Resumes. Sydney
The Bulli Colliery resumed work to-day, after being idle for three weeks. The loss of wages will run approximately into £1500…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. Australian Notes. Over Fourteen Millions in Circulation. Gold Reserve, Sixteen Millions. Melbourne
There are at present in circulation fourteen million four hundred and fifty-four thousand nine hundred and seventy Australian notes, to the value of £45,123,529. Against this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Troubles. South Coast Difficulty Complicated. Sydney
The position on the South Coast has been complicated by the decision of the district delegate board not to accept the terms of the tentative agreement arrived at between the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explanation Wanted. by Broken Hill Miners. Broken Hill
The Broken Hill A.M.A. has decided to ask the Minister for Defence for an explanation of the raid on the Melbourne "Labor Call" office…
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