Another Coal Trouble. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A telegram from Newcastle states that the threatened reduction in the hewing rate for coalmining in the Newcastle district will come into force…
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Mining & the mines, 1903
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Serious Mining Accident, PERTH
A serious accident, involving a fatality, occurred at the Lake View Consols mine, Kalgoorile, to-day. A mines of stone, weighing, roughly, 10…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining. [Reuter's Message.] Aritunga. LONDON
In is reported that the Consolidated Goldfields Company, South Africa, has purchased, through the Explorers' Trust, eight of the principal White…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Coal Miners. The Hewing Rate. [By Telegraph] Sydney
Over 2000 men attended the miners' mass meeting held at Newcastle yesterday afternoon to discuss the proposed alteration of the hewing rate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gippsland Coal Strike. Engagement of "Free" Workers. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
There is nothing new in connection with the strike at the Howitt-Outtrim and Jumbanna coal mines. "Free" laborers continue to be sent down to…
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Two slight accidents occurred last evening in Blook 13, Proprietary mine, but medical aid was not required in either case. C. Berriman, a trucker,…
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A SPECIAL general meeting of the South Mine Sick and Accident [?] was held last night at the Criterion Hotel. There was a good attendance,…
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IN the summons division of the Police Court to-day, before Messrs. Maitland, P M. Allen, and Davitt, Js P., John Boland was charged with having on or…
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AT the half-yearly meeting of the Broken Hill Junction North last week, Mr. Hal Sheppard, the chairman of d[?]tors, speaking of the pre[?]…
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A young man named Douglas Webb has been killed in the Golconda mine, [?]ae, owing to a truck overbalancing and falling on him…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gippsland Coal Trouble. Another Strike. The Coal Creek Men Out. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
Besides those of the [?]attrim-Howltt and the Jumbanna mines, the men of the Coal Creck mine are now on strike. One hundred and eighty of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Newcastle Miners. The Howing Rate. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
Employers and employees in the Newcastle collieri[?]s dispute over the howing rate are to meet in conference in Sydney with a view to arranging an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Treatment of Zincs. MELBOURNE
The news from Broken Hill that the Proprietary Company Intends to erect large plant to deal with the [?] process for the treatment of zincs has…
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Early last evening K. N. Hamilton, a miner employed in Block ll, Proprietary mine, was working at the 500ft, level when he met with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining. [By Telegraph.] a New Gold Reef. HOBART
A gold-bearing reef haa been discovered by some woodcutters in the employ of the Mount Lyell Mining Company, Queenstown, working about…
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AT the half-yearly meeting of the Broken Hill Junction North last week, Mr. Hal Sheppard, the chairman of directors, speaking of the proposed…
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A London firm of shipbrokers has secured a contract from the Admiralty for the conveyance of 50,000 tons of Westport (N. Z) coal to Hong Kong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gippsland Coal Strike. Demonstrative Woman. The Coal Creek Trouble. Masters and Men in Conference. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
The women are becoming demonstrative at Oattrim and are hooting and tinkettling the non-unionists who have taken the places of the strikers at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Newcastle Miners. Hewing Rate Dispute. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The conference between the ooal mineowners who have announced the reduction in the hewing rate end the officials of the Calliery Employees'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Signalling in Mines. SYDNEY
The State mining inspectors, it is [?]ounced, are at present giving consideration to the adoption of a uniform code of mine signals…
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