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Mining & the mines, 1896

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Newcastle Coal Trouble Strike Cannot be Averted

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 15 April 1896 · page 2

All parties interested in the coal trade in Newcastle are now pretty well agreed that a strike cannot be averted unless an important change of…

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Wednesday, April 15, 1896. the Coal Tade Crisis

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 April 1896 · page 2

ACCORDING to the arrangement made at a conference of municipal representatives in Newcastle on Monday, a deputation waited on Mr. Reid at the railway station last night,…

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The Mining Crisis. Every Probaility of A. STRIKE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 April 1896 · page 5

A deputation of citizens appointed to wait on the officers of the Miners' Association saw Messrs. Curley and McFadyen in Newcastle this morning, and asked that notices of an intention to strife be withdrawn, Mr. Curley, in reply, said he was…

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Friday, April 17, 1896. the coal trade crisis

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 April 1896 · page 2

TO-DAY the delegate board of the Miners Association is to meet in Newcastle, to consider the proposal of Mr. Reid that the miners should withdraw the strike notices, that he…

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The Mining Crisis. the Strike Postponed. Newcastle, Friday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 April 1896 · page 3

The Miners' Delegate Board sat all day. A wire was sent to the Premier asking for something definite, and a reply was received in the afternoon, when it was decided to recommend the Lodges to…

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Westphalian Coal for England

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 3

Rebates have recently been made on the carriage of coal along the German railway lines. This will enable the colliery proprietors at Westphalia to land their coal in England at a sufficiently low rate…

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The Coal Trade Crisis

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 4

OWING to the early hour at which we must go to press, we are unable in this issue to do more than indicate the tendency of events in connection with a threatened strike in the…

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The Week's Mining

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 3

The owners of the Venus lease, Mount Magnet, W.A., have struck extra rich ore, 5cwt. yielding 300oz. Assays of stone taken from some mines at Lake…

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The Mining Crisis

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 3

The general opinion in Sydney coal circles this morning in regard to the Newcastle mining crisis, is that a conference will be held, but representative of the various compaines decline to express any…

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Newcastle Coal Trouble The Premier Interviewed

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 2

ON his way to Sydney on Tuesday night by the mail train from the North the Premier was waited on at Newcastle by a deputation which…

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The Scottish-australian Mining Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1896 · page 3

The balance-sheet presented at the half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Scottish-Australian Mining Company showed a profit of £2537. It had been proposed to call up 5s per share early in 1896,…

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The Threatened Coal Strike

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 21 April 1896 · page 2

The threatened strike of the Newcastle coalminers is the all absorbing topic of general interest just now, and the decision of the men to suspend…

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The Mining Crisis

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 April 1896 · page 5

The coal conference will commence at 11 o'clock to-morrow. Grave doubts are entertained with regard to the ultimate result…

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The Newcastle Coal Ring

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 April 1896 · page 3

SIR,—As the Premier seems to have succeeded in getting all the coal owners to agree to meet him and the miners' delegates, it is I think worth while in the interests of the general public who are…

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The Coal Trade Conference. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 April 1896 · page 5

The coal conference opened at 11 o'clock. The representatives of the miners held a preliminary meeting in the office of the Works Department. No reporters are being allowed to attend until it be…

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Letters to the Editor. the Greta Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 April 1896 · page 3

SIR,—In your impression of the 17th instant, report is published—I take it, from your paid G[?] correspondent—relative to the non-success of the District Officers efforts in the direction of…

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Newcastle Coal Trouble Prospects of a Settlement

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 22 April 1896 · page 4

Tub Premier received a letter on Saturday morning from Mr James Curley, general secretary of the Northern Miners' Association, con…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 April 1896 · page 8

At Mount Maguet, W.A., the latest sensation has been the discovery of a rich deposit of gold about two miles south-west of the Mount. The prospecting area was pegged out only a few weeks since. During…

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The Coal Trade Crisis

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 April 1896 · page 4

ALTHOUGH the conference convened by Mr. Reid, of which we were able yesterday to give some particulars, did not result in a settlement, it was not wholly fruitless. After…

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Opinion About the Coal Crisis

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 April 1896 · page 5

General hope is expressed throughout all classes of the community this morning that the miners will see their way clear to accept the proposals submitted as the result of the conference. The…

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