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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1903

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Mining Matters. the Hewing Rate.—reductions Notified

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 4

Consequent on the decision arrived at the previous day, notices were posted at a number of the Newcastle district collieries yesterday, notifying the intention of the proprietors to enforce the reduction…

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Impressions From California The Relative Merits of Coal and Oil Orchards and Cannaries. Irrigation

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 3

MR ALEXANDER BROWN, managing director in Newcastle for Dalgetty and Co., has lately returned from a trip to California, and, in the course of- a…

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The Arltunga Goldfields

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 13

Mr. J. Green, of Beaufort, Mr. R. Cummings, discoverer of the Reef Hill Company's ground at Wombat, near Daylesford (Vic.), and Lieutenant T. J. Gilpin, of the Ballarat Stock Exchange, who some…

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The Maitland Coal Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 May 1903 · page 2

Passenger and goods trains run daily at 8.30 and 2.30 p.m. from the East Greta Railway Junction to East Greta, Heddon-Greta, Stanford-Merthyr, Kurri Kurri, and Pelaw-Main, returning at 9.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. (Sundays excepted)…

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Mining Matters. American Coal Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 May 1903 · page 2

If J. Pierpont Morgan and his lieutenants in the combination of railroads and mines in the anthracite coal district had not been blinded by their own arrogance they could have saved millions, and spared…

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Monday, May 4, 1903. Teo Bir in the Coal Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 May 1903 · page 2

WHETHER or not there is reason in market conditions for reducing the selling price of coal at Newcastle, it seems tolerably clear that the time and the method of announcing the…

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Mass Meeting of Miners at Newcastle. Hewing Rate Difficulty. Proposed Reduction Opposed. Arbitration Court Condemned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 May 1903 · page 4

Pursuant to a resolution passed by the delegate board last week a mass meeting of members of the Colliery Employes Federation was held in Arnott's Paddock, Melville-street, Newcastle, on Saturday…

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Mining Matters the Coal Trade Difficulty. Conference Arranged. Coal Mines Regulation Act

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 4

The difficulty that bus arisen in the coal trade, which is in a very flourishing state at the present time, has caused not a little anxiety in business circles in Newcastle, Sydney, and other quarters, and…

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The Coal and Oil Mistiy. Prospects in America

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 6

The Hon. Alexander Brown, M.L.A., who has first returned from a trip to California has been intervi[?]ed as to his impressions during the tour, and made the following…

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The Collieries

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 6 May 1903 · page 2

In Victoria the Trades Hall is resisting a demand that is alleged to be illegal. At Newcastle the miners are loudly condemning, the…

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Westport Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 May 1903 · page 3

Messrs. Weddel, Turner, and Co. have secured an Admiralty contract for the conveyance of 50,000 tons of Westport (N.Z.) coal to Hongkong for the China squadron…

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Mining Matters. the Hewing Rate Difficulty. Dudley Miners Object. an Advance Requested

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 May 1903 · page 4

Operations were discontinued at the Dudley Colliery yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of enabling the miners to deal with matters in connection with the proposed reduction in their earnings…

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Mining Matters. Hewing Rate Difficulty. Conference To-morrow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 May 1903 · page 4

It has been decided that the conference arranged between the colliery proprietors and representatives of the men, for the purpose of discussing the difficulty which has arisen in the coal trade, will take…

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Colliery Dispute

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 May 1903 · page 4

Mr Pratt, the legal manager of the Jumbunna Coal Company, arrived at Jumbunna on Wednesday and arranged to hold a conference with the members…

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Mass Meeting of Miners

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 May 1903 · page 12

Pursuant to a resolution passed by the [?] board, a mass meeting of members of the [?] Employes Federation was held in Arnett's [?] dock, Melville—street, Newcastle, on Saturday…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 May 1903 · page 13

The Victorian gold yield, as measured by the Mint receipts for the month of April, is stated at 53,045 crude ounces. A strike has occurred at the Coal Creek mine,…

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The Coal Trade Difficulty

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 May 1903 · page 4

The difficulty that has arisen in the coal trade, which is in a very flourishing state at the present time has caused not a little anxiety in business circles in Newcastle, Sydney, and other quarters,…

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The Coal and Oil Industry. Prospects in America

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 May 1903 · page 9

The Hon. Alexander Brown, M.L.A., who has first returned from a trip to California, has been interviewed as to his impressions during the tour, and made the following…

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Latest News by Wire. Auckland. Terrible Mining Mishaps

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 May 1903 · page 3

A sensational accident occurred at Waihi mine this morning. A Tasmanian miner named Parry, while ascending a shaft, lost his hold and fell, being instantaneously killed by…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 May 1903 · page 4

Mr. W. A. Reid, of Newcastle, solicitor for the Colliery Employes Federation, proceeded to Sydney on Saturday and interviewed Mr. R. E. O'Connor, K.G., and Mr. A. R. Watt with respect to the…

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