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Mining & the mines, 1907

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J a Miners' Accident Fund. Case from Rix's Creek

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 5

In the Equity Court, Sydney, before Mr Justice A. H. Simpson, an application was made for the payment out of court of the funds of the…

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Serious Industrial Forecast. Coal-Lumpers' Appeal to Australia

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 7

If a comprehensive resolution which was carried at a mass meeting of unionist coal lumpers and others, held at the Protestant Hall Sydney, on…

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Gold Made Like Steel. [?]urgical Instruments Made of Hardened Precious Metal

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 5

A source of future great demand for [?]old in the arts and sciences is di[?]ulged in Leslie's Weekly, in which Henry Schedd Beardsley relates how…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 June 1907 · page 4

The Merilla Copper Mining Company has [?] its mine to Mr. J. M. Madden, of Melbourne at a satisfactory figure, It is the intention of the new purchaser to develop and equip the…

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Of Interest to Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 June 1907 · page 5

At Darlinghurst Sessions to-day John Wilson was charged with having caused the death of Arthur Albert Selby. The Crown Prosecutor explained that accused had been manager…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 June 1907 · page 7

Still farther dissension in the mining industry. The Back Creek and Duckenfield minors have handed in their notices to cease work. It appears that certain members of the lodges are in arrears with levies…

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Coal-lumpers' Strike. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 June 1907 · page 2

Matters generally in connection with the coal-lumpers' strike continue quiet. Various rumors are afloat, one being that serious action by the…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 June 1907 · page 7

An area of 241 areas of a seal land adjoining the township of Greta and the Lseonfield Estate, which has been taken up by Mr. A. Shedden and others, will, it is stated, be opened up for colliery purposes…

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Mining Troubles. Serious industrial Outbreak

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 June 1907 · page 2

The miners employed at the Duckenfield and Back Creek Collieries, upward of four hundred in all, have resolved, by ballot, almost unanimously,…

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Terrible Colliery Disaster. Several Miners Entombed. Auckland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 3

A terrible colliery disaster is reported from Southland, a serious fire having broken out there in the miners have been entombed, with it is…

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Local and General. Pay at the Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 2

The fortnightly pay was distributed at the South Maitland collieries to-day. At East Greta and Stanford-Merthyr the miners and other colliery shared £3914 13s 5d amongst them…

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Coal Lumpers' Strike

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 2

A crisis is threatened in connection with the coal lumpers difficulty as the wharf laborers threaten to take action…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 2

Dr. R. Arthur, M.P., referring to the immigration of coalmines, makes the following statement:—"Last August I read an article in which it was stated that 600 miners were required at the South…

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Latest News. SYDNEY, Thursday. A Gold Rush

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 2

There was great excitement at Ballarat North yesterday by the announcement that gold-bearing stone 19 inches wide was struct at…

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Hebburn Colliery

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 16

The A. A. Company's Hebburn Colliery has recently been the scone of extensive operations in the shape of surface improvement and the company has just completed the construction…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 13

The Gunnedah Colliery Company has secured the usual large contract for the supply of coal this year for the Railway Department Gunnedah coal is claimed to be at least 2 per…

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Serious Colliery Fire. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 4

There has been a serious fire at the Nightcap Colliery, Southland, New Zealand. Three miners were entombed, and one body has been re…

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Morpeth As Coal Depot

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 4

A well-attended meeting of the Maitland Chamber of Commerce was held on Thursday at Morpeth, the Mayor of the latter town presiding…

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Abundance of Work. Miners Wanted

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 4

The statement published in Sydney to the effect that three immigrants had applied for work at the South Maitland collieries and had failed to obtain it, and that they were…

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Mining in a Cemetery

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 1

A goldmining lease has been taken out in Victoria, which embraces the site of the Bullarat North Cemetery. A crushing from a reef found by a…

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