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Mining & the mines, 1904

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 3

Mr. J. L. Fegan, hon. Minister, and chairman of the Miners Accident Relief Fund Board, has received a number of communications from miners and others interested in the…

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Colliery Disputes. the Flouting of the Court. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 3

The tension between the management and the men at five Teralba collieries, namely, Rhondda, Northern Extended, Northumberland, Pacific Co-operative, and Cardiff has not…

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Mining

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 2

IT is notified that the undermentioned gold-lease application have been refused:—H. Kilbride, No. 121, 4 acres, parish Oldcastle; G. H. Hatfield and…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1904 · page 13
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The tender of Messrs. Murdoch, Maige, and party has been accepted for the regrading of No. 2 tunnel at Pelaw-Main. The gold export from New Zealand last year…

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The Colliery Strikes. Special Sitting of the Court. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1904 · page 5

The Registrar under the Industrial Arbitration Act, Mr. G. C. Addison, arrived here by last night's train from Sydney, and to-day was at the Courthouse for several hours…

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South African Mining Prospects. Impressions of an Australian. Unhealthy Surroundings

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 January 1904 · page 5

MR.J.W. HICKS, a well-known Ballarat mine-manger, who recently returned from South Africa, is not impressed with the prospects of the…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 2

Mr. A. G. Maitland, who has returned to Perth (W.A.) from Pilbarra goldfields, says that owing to the lateness of the off season he was unable to complete his…

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Newcastle. the Mining Dispute

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 3

Five of the Teralba collieries are still idle, and the miners on strike at each are showing no disposition to resume immediately. Summonses against nearly 200 Northern Extended…

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Coal-cutting Machines. The Doom of the Coal Hewer

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 January 1904 · page 2

IN consequence of the introduction of coal-cutting machines at the Pelaw Main Colliery all the miners, after a fortnight's notice, were die…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 2

The Norwegian newspapers announce that a German geologist and chemist, who has been in the country for some time, has made a discovery of gold ore in the neighbourhood of…

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Teralba. the Mining Difficulty

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 3

The Northern Extended miners decided by ballot this afternoon, by 97 votes to 11, not to resume work under the Arbitration Court's award, and in accordance with the…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 4
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The Crown Lands Board of New Zealand yesterday recommended the granting of a 66 years' lease to the Melbourne Iron, Steel and Metal Manufacturing Company of an area on the West Coast, Dear…

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The Teralba Mining Difficulty. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 5

THE Northern Extended miners decided by ballot this afternoon, by 97 votes to 11, not to resume work under the Arbitration Court's award, and in…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 2

Dissatisfaction has been expressed by the miners employed at Heddon-Greta colliery at the proposed reduction of a shilling per day in their wages, notice of which was posted at…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 2

The Minister for Mines and Agriculture, Mr. Kidd, has received a communication from Mr. J. P., Suttor, the Government Commercial Agent in the East, on the subject of the New…

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A Colliery Explosion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1904 · page 5

An explosion took place in the Harwick Colliery, Cheswick, United States, yesterday. One hundred and eighty miners are entombed, and it is feared that all have been suffocated…

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Harwick Colliery Disaster

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 January 1904 · page 3

Men engaged in the work of rescue at the Harwick colliery found at the bottom of the shaft a pile of legs, arms, and trunks of human bodies. Fragments of bodies were…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 January 1904 · page 2

Trade at the ironworks, Lithgow, has been very dull. The two sheet mills are now closed, and work is but intermittent in other branches. Altogether the men estimate that…

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