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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1902

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MINING [?] Train Wrecking Threatened. (By Cable) London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 October 1902 · page 4

THERE has been a great mining [?] at petric Colliery, Glamong [?] Wales. One thousand miners struck in protest against the employment of…

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Maitland Circuit Court. MALLOY v. the Scottish-australian Mining Company

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 October 1902 · page 8

In this case Mary Elizabeth Malloy, administratrix of the estate of the into John Malloy, sued the Scottish-Australian Mining Company, Limited, for…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Friday, Ocotober 3, 1902. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice G. B. Simpson and a jury of jury.) MALLOY v. the Scottish-australian Mining Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 October 1902 · page 4

After the report which appeared in last night's issue in the above case, in which Mary Elizabeth Malloy, administratrix of the estate of the late John Malloy, sued the Scottish-Australia Mining…

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The Coal in Charity

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 October 1902 · page 3

The International Mercantile Marine Company announces that it will purchase in England fifty thousand tons of domestic coal, to be used in reliveing the suffering poor of America and for supplying…

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The Miners' Strike in France

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 October 1902 · page 3

Eight thousand miners in the department of Pas Calais, France, have struck work as a protest against Hie reduction of wages. M. Combes, the Premier, has promised to introduce bill into the…

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Mine [?] Ners Surrender

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 October 1902 · page 3

Seventeen mine owners in West Virginia have yielded to the demands of the man, and four thousand resume work immediately…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 October 1902 · page 4

According to the official report of an agent of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, who visited Dawson this summer in its interest, the output of the Klodyke placers is decreasing rapidly. He…

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The Fruits of the Coal Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 October 1902 · page 3

The New York Tribune, summing up the outcome of the coal strike, says it has resulted in 30 murders, 42 severe injuries, 12 houses dynamited, 69 riots,…

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Gold Export. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 October 1902 · page 2

THE American mail steamer left to-day, with 90 boxes of gold, valued at £150,000. The destination of the booty is San Francisco…

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British Coal for America

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 October 1902 · page 3

Two hundred thousand tons of Welsh coal are being despatched to New York and Boston at enhanced prices. One hundred thousand tons of Newcastle coal have been sold on American account, and…

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The Great Coal Strike in Pennsylvania

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 October 1902 · page 3

Forty-three thousand United States troops are stationed in the Pensylvania strike districts. It is reported that President Roosevelt intends, under the law of eminent domain, to nationalise vast…

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Mining Disaster at Broken Hill Two Men Entombed. Their Rescue Considered Impossible. Broken Hill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 October 1902 · page 3

A terrible collapse occurred in the southern workings of the Central Mine this morning, resulting in the burial of two men who were working in the intermediate stope between the four hundred and…

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A Miners Contribution

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 October 1902 · page 3

The Miners Federation in Great Britain has sent a thousand pounds to the Pennsylvania colliers on strike…

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Great Coal Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 October 1902 · page 3

Seventy thousand coal miners in the North of France, in Loire, Central France, and at Carmaux, Southern France, constituting two-thirds of the French colliers, have struck work. They demand an…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 October 1902 · page 4

The output of coal at the Jumbunna mine, S[?] Gippsland (V.), for the past half-year amounted to 33,446 tons, as compared with 33,796 tons for the preceding half-year, The report [?]…

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The American Coal Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 October 1902 · page 3

Mr. Mitchell, President of the Minors Union, has refused President Roosevelt's proposal, considering it indefinite…

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"Creep" in a Mine. Three Men Entombed. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 October 1902 · page 3

A "CREEP" in the Centra! mine at Broken Hill last night affected a large area of ground, but the full extent is cot yet known. Three men were…

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The Coal Strike. [?] to the Re[?]ous. The Crime Record. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 October 1902 · page 3

AN important development has taken pier in the Pennsylvania labor [?] Seventeen of the mine owners of…

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Coal Mining

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 3

A mass meeting of miners of Pennsylvania was bold yesterday, and it was decided to continue to make a firm stand. Owing to exportations to the United Stated the…

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Great Coal Strikes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 3

The French coal miners have declared a general strike. Four manifestoes have been issued. The first manifesto addressed to all French workers declares that the strike is due to the employers…

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