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Mining & the mines, 1907

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Electricity in Mines. Hebburn Dispute

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 3

The interim report of the committee appointed to inquire into the dispute between miners and the Hebburn Colliery, respecting the employment…

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Mining Operations at Greta

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 4

Good progress is being made by Messrs. Sheddon and Company with the work of sinking a shaft on the coal-bearing lands which they have secured adjacent to the town of Greta. So far they…

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Goal Mining Lease Dispute

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 2

In the Equity Court, Sydney, before Mr. Justice Simpson, John Perci[?]llvess, law, clerk, proceeded against Nool Trevor Jones, solicitor, asking to…

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The Hebburn Colliery Trouble. Interview with the Manager. Hebburn

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 5

Mr. Peter Bowling, district president of the Miners' Federation, in company with Mows. M'Williams, J. Snedden, and A Burnt), representing the Hebburn miners, had an interview with…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 December 1907 · page 6

A miner named Charles Cullen, working in the alluvial lead in Poverty Reef Gully. Tarnagulla (Vic.) was successful in unarthing a nugget of almost solid gold…

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Mine Labour from the Country

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 December 1907 · page 4

Our Dungog contemporary intimates that several young men have gone from the Upper williams and Chicester districts to get work at the South Maitland coal mines, evidently considering…

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Terrible Colliery Catastrophe. a Virginian Explosion. Four Hundred Men Entombed. London, Dec. 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 December 1907 · page 5

An explosion in the Baltimore Consolidated Coal Company's mine, Monongah, near Fairmont, Virginia, shot a number of men through the ventilating shafts, shook houses for a radius…

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Special Mining Court. President's Address. Premier to Be Interviewed by Judge. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 December 1907 · page 5

When this morning in the little stu[?] occasional court room, his Honor Judge Heydon as president, and Messrs. H. S. Forsyth (proprietors' representative), and Mr. Peter Bowling…

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The Colliery Disaster

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 3

Further bodies have been recovered from the Baltimore consolidated Coal Company's Colliery at Mononagh, Virginia, but fire has stopped the work of exploration…

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Colliery Catastrophe, Four Hundred Men Entombed. London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 2

An explosion in the Baltimore Consolidated Coal Company's mine, Monongah, near Fairmont, Virginia, shot a number of men through the ventilating…

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Late Cable News. London, Saturday. Nevada Miners Strike

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 2

In Nevada 10,000 miners have Struck work, demanding recognition of the union. Troops have been sent to preserve order…

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The Monongah Colliery Disaster. Swift Deaths. Whispers of One Thousand Victims. London, Dec [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 3

The explosion in the Baltimore consolidated Coal Company's mines. Monogan, near Fairmount Virginia, carried a block of concrete weighing 1000lb, across the river, where…

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Special Mining Court. Sittings Commenced. Newcastle

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 2

The new mining tubunal brought into existence by the Premier (Mr C. 'G, Wade), to end one of the most serious strikes in the history of the State, and…

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Appalling Explosion in Coal Mine. LONDON

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 4

A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in the Baltimore (U.S.) Consolidated Coal Company's mine at Monongah, near Fairmount…

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Native Miners Revolt

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 5

Five hundred natives employed in the Vorspied mine. Orange River Colony, revolted, and destroyed much property. They then started for Kroonstad, on the main railway line, where…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 3

A telegram received from Georgetown (Q.) states that Louis Coleman, the prospector of Lucky Creek reports having found a rich reef about five miles to the east of that…

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The Hebburn Mine. Employment of Electricity. Question of Safety

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 5

In view of the doubt that arose as to the meaning of certain parts of the interim report of the Committee of Investigation relative to the danger or otherwise connected…

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Miners' Wages

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 December 1907 · page 3

Lord James of Hereford, who adjudicated in the dispute between the colliery proprietors' and the Federated Miners of Great Britain, has awarded an increase of five per cent, in the…

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Mutinous Native Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 December 1907 · page 3

Police overtook the rioters from Vorspeid, [?]d escorted them to Kroonstad, where the [?]gleaders were fined £50 or six months im[?]nment and 200 others were fined £2 or a…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 December 1907 · page 4

The half-yearly accounts of the Scottish Australian Mining Co., Ltd., which owns the Burwood and Lambton collieries, show that during the six months ended June 30 the company…

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