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Mining & the mines, 1903

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Mining Matters the Difficulty at Lambton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 June 1903 · page 2

The Lambton B Colliery, which we thrown idle on Wednesday last through the wheelers refusing to continue work owing to one of their number being discharged for alleged…

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Mining Matters. the Gold Discovery at Denman

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 July 1903 · page 6

Mr. Carne, the Assistant-Government Geologist, has furnished a report to the Under-Secretary for Mines, regarding the reported gold find near Denman. It consists,…

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Our Sydney Letter. Miners' Accident Relief

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 1 July 1903 · page 2

Under the pretext of making provi sion for the relief of distress arising from mining accidents, threepence is deducted every "pay" from the wages…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 July 1903 · page 2

The Lambton Colliery, which was thrown idle a week ago through the wheelers discontinuing operations, resumed yesterday. The management engaged fresh wheelers…

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Muswellbrook Letter the Denman Goldfield. Official Report

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 July 1903 · page 4

The following official description of the Denman goldfield, will doubtless be disappointing to some person, but will nevertheless be read with interest by those whose attention has for weeks past been…

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Mining

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 July 1903 · page 2

MR. CARNE, the Assistant-Government Geologist, has furnished a report to the Under-Secretary of Mines, regarding the reported gold find near…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 July 1903 · page 4

In a speech at Outrim Violently denunciatory of the Irvine Government, Mr. Anstey, one of the Victorian labour members, charaoterised the members of the Cabinet as "boodlers and knaves." He…

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The South Maitland Coal-field. Specially written for the CHRONICLE

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 3 July 1903 · page 2

The conference held at Maitland between the directors of the East Greta Company and their employees has agreed upon a hewing price and other conditions as to…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1903 · page 10

In connection with the discovery of opal near Walett, 24 miners' rights live been issued within the last few days. Intelligence from Leigh's Creek, south Australia,…

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Silent Threads of Gold

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1903 · page 14

Little self—denials, little honesties, littles passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favourite temptations these are the silent…

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Local and General News. A Gold Medalist

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 4 July 1903 · page 2

We learn with pleasure that at the examination in connection with the the Wesley Bi-cent[?]cary commemoration held in Sydney during the past week, Miss Bessie Sims, of…

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Big Mining Disaster. 175 Men Killed. London, Wednesday

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 July 1903 · page 3

The Union Pacific Mine at Hanoa, in Wyoming, in the United States, has been set on fire by an explosion. Great loss of life was occasioned, 175…

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Mining Matters. Strike at Stanford-merthyr. Trouble with the Wheelers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1903 · page 5

As stated in yesterday's issue the Stanford Merthyr Colliery has been lain idle consequent on trouble having arisen between the management and the wheelers. The colliery, which employs 2/0 hands…

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The Denman Goldfield. Official Report

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1903 · page 6

The following official description of the denman goldfield, will doubtless be disappointing [?] persons, but will nevertheless be read with [?] by those whose whose attention has for weeks [?]…

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Coal for Ferries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 July 1903 · page 3

The tender of Edward A. Lawson, East Maitland, has been accepted for the supply, etc,, of coal for Raymond Terrace and Nelson's Plains steam ferries for one year from the 1st July…

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Mining Matters. Stanford-merthyr Difficulty

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 July 1903 · page 3

in connection with the difficulty at the Stanford-Merthyr colliery Messrs. J. Bower, M. Charlton, and Jumna Curley, District Officers of the Colliery Em-ployees Federation, conferred with the strikers on…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 July 1903 · page 2

The export of coal from Newcastle to places beyond tho State for the past week amounted to 70,518 tons, made up as follows:-Victoria, 17,620; South…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 July 1903 · page 7

In regard to the dispute between the Colliery Employees' Federation, (northern district) v. Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association, Caledonian Coal Company,…

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Ogilvie's Hill Goldfield

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 8 July 1903 · page 2

"GOLD, gold, gold! Difficult to get, and hard to hold." It is difficult to get so far because there doesn't seem to be too much of it. What there is,…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 July 1903 · page 2

Further developments have taken place in connection with the dispute concerning the working conditions at the Hebburn colliery, where a daily wage rate has been in existence. As previously stated…

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