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Mining & the mines, 1903

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Maitland Coal Mines. Pelaw-main

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 October 1903 · page 3

The trouble that has arisen through the wheelers refusing to go to work has resulted more seriously than was anticipated. This morning, notices were placed at the pit, that…

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Maitland Coal Mines. the Trouble at Pelaw-main

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 October 1903 · page 5

There is every hope that the trouble caused at Pelaw-Main colliery will be satisfactorily settled to-day. The colliery was thrown idle for about a week through the refusal of the…

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The Chief Inspector of Mines

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 7 October 1903 · page 2

A number of worthy persons are greatly concerned about the manner in which the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. Slee, Chief Inspector…

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Maitland Coal Mines. Pelaw-main

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 October 1903 · page 3

The members of the Accident Relief Fund met in the Colliery Office on Monday evening. Mr. W. Williams, under-manager, presided. The amount deducted from wages for the…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 October 1903 · page 4

The miners employed at Hebburn colliery have accepted the terms offered by the A. A. Company, 2s 9d per ton for large coal and fid per ton for small. The agreement will be…

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Maitland Coal Mines. the Pelaw-main Trouble

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 October 1903 · page 5

Pelaw-Main colliery is still idle. The latest information to be gleaned about the condition of affairs is that a special sitting of the Arbitration Court will be held in Sydney on Monday to consider the…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 October 1903 · page 12

The Southern colliery employees are indignant at the action of the Legislative Council in throwing out the Eight-hour Bill without even discussing it. The new goldfield at Tenandra, 20 miles…

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A Hydraulic Mining Cartridge

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 10 October 1903 · page 2
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

A new introduction has been made into the coal-mining industry in the form of a hydraulic mining ca[?]ge. The present mode of "bring"…

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An Extraordinary Dog Story. Six Months in a Disused Mine

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 October 1903 · page 3

A pood deal of talk has been caused among the people of Shotts. district regarding an extraordinary story about the imprisonment of a…

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Maitland Coal Mines. the Pelaw-main Trouble

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 October 1903 · page 2

It will be very gratifying intelligence to the community generally to learn that there is every prospect of a satisfactory settlement of the difficulty created at Pelaw-Main by the wheelers' strike being…

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Pelaw-main Colliery. Wheelers to Be Prosecuted. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 October 1903 · page 3

There was a special sitting of the Arbitration Court to-day, to determine an application in connection with the trouble at Pelaw Main coal mine, near Maitland. The…

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Maitland Coal Mines. Pelaw-main

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 October 1903 · page 2

At a special meeting of miners belonging to the union held in Lewie' Hall at two p.m. on Saturday afternoon, Mr. J. Curley, general Secretary of the C.E.F., gave the report of his negotiations with the…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 October 1903 · page 6

A telegram received from Wollongong on Monday states that the National Colliery Employees' Federation proposal has been agreed to by the unions of New South…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 October 1903 · page 6

Mr. H. Stewart, mining warden's clerk at Hill End, has forwarded a report to the Minister of Mines regarding the return of gold from the King's Reef. He says that the…

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Maitland Coal Mines. Pelaw-main

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 October 1903 · page 3

The Good Templars, who have been making good progress since the lodge's inauguration, were encouraged by a visit of the Grand Chaplain of the Order, the Rev. E. King, of…

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Maitland Coal Mines. Fortnightly Pay-sheet

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 October 1903 · page 3

THe pay-sheet of the East Greta Coalmining Company, Ltd., including Stanford-Merthyr, for the fortnight ended October 10th, amounted to £2992 6s 2d…

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Maitland Coal Mines, East Grfta

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 October 1903 · page 3

The ordinary meeting of the Progress Committee was held on Tuesday evening, Mr. J. Thompson (president) in the chair. The other members present were-Messrs. J. Coulton W. Parker S. Higgenson…

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The Gold Yield

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 October 1903 · page 9

A return compiled by the Department of Mines shows that the gold produced in this State during the month of September, was 72,835 ounces crude, equal to 61,806 ounces fine,…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 October 1903 · page 3

Mr. Arthur E. Blunder storekeeper at Yalgogrin discovered a 70z. sugget beside some small once at Nariah station situated about 25 miles to the west of Wyalong…

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