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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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The Coal Crisis. Prospects of a Settlement

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 18 September 1906 · page 2

The conference between the representative of the Mine-owners' Association and Colliery Employers Federation opened at Newcastle at 10…

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The Very Latest. the Miners' Offer. Newcastle, Tuesday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 September 1906 · page 3

The miners have offered to advise the district to allow the owners to employ one-third of the machine-men on the dog-watch, with a maximum of 20 at any colliery,…

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The Mining Trouble. Hopes of a Settlement

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 September 1906 · page 3

THERE is now, we are pleased to say, much greater hopes of a settlement of the coal-mining trouble in the Maitland and Newcastle districts…

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The Singleton Argus Tuesday, September 18Th, 1906 the Coal Crisis

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 September 1906 · page 2

As this article is written there does not appear much prospect that the tension in' connection .with actual and probable strikes in the coal-mining…

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The Mining Crisis

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 September 1906 · page 3

Like dwellers in all parts of the State and Commonwealth, the residents of Muswellbrook are awaiting the outcome of the conference between the representatives of the coal proprietors and miners…

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In a Western Mining Camp

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 September 1906 · page 4

The Info Joseph Jefferson used to say that his career came very near being nipped in the bud in a small Western town. He at one time was a member of a small pioneer…

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The Coalmining Crisis. Conference Proceedings Terminate Abruptly. Miners Meeting the Cause. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 September 1906 · page 5

Immediately on the Coalmining Conference, which was opened on Saturday and continued yesterday, being resumed this morning, at the City Council, an important…

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Conference Re-assembles. Miners' Mass Meeting Postponed. the Owners' Terms. Newcastle, Wednesday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 September 1906 · page 5

In compliance with a request made by the miners' representatives after the conference had broken up before the luncheon hour, the owners consented to again meet the miners'…

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The Coal Mining Crisis No Agreement Yet. Situation Serious

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 September 1906 · page 2

On Tuesday the coalmining deadlook in the Maitand fields promised to be extended to the Newcastle distret. If it docs fully 12,000 persons…

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East Greta Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 September 1906 · page 3

In connection with the present difficulty a meeting of the East Greta Miners Lodge was held at the Oddfollows' Hall West Maitland, this morning. The chairman of the…

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The Maitland Coal Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 September 1906 · page 2

At the Kurri Police Court yesterday fore Messrs. Stephen Murphy P.M.S. Brown, J.P. alexander George consee of the Aberdare Hotel…

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Coal Export

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 4

Last year 6,632,136 tons was the total coal output for New South Wales, about two thirds, of which is credited to the Northern districts. The greater part of the coal from…

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Coal Tar

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 7

More than 200 years ago a Gorman chemist named Johann Becher made a most remarkable discovery. he declared that he had found a new way of burning coal, by which…

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East Creta Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 5

'A' largely-attended meeting of the East Greta Miners Lodge was held in the Odd-fellows' Hall, West Maitland, last evening, when the proposals of the colliery proprietors…

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The Coal Trouble. Practically Settled

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 2

AFTER an anxious time, and a prolonged deadlock at the conference with the coal trouble in the Newcastle and Maitland districts, it is…

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Killed in a Mine. Broken Hill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 5

An elderly man named Michael Ford a mullocker at the North Mine, met with a terrible death this morning. Ford was employed [?] at the 500 feet level of…

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The Coal Crisis. Conference at New-castle

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 2

The all important conference between representatives of the colliery proprietors and of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held at the…

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First Gold Found in Alaska. Discovered by a Russian Trader in 1832 on Anauk River

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 4

Gold was first discovered in Alaska on the Anauk River, a territory of the Kushowim River, which joins the latter stream about 25 miles below…

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The Mining Difficulty, Satisfactory Settlement. Unanimous Acceptance of Terms. Aggregate Meeting Abandoned. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 5

The West Wallsend Killingworth, and Seaham miners lodges met last evening, and by sweeping majorities accepted the colliery proprietors terms…

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The Coal Mining Crisis Agreement Arrived At

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 3

The mining conference at Newcastle, in connection with the dog watch and hewing rate, was resumed at Newcastle on Wednesday, as announced in…

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