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Mining & the mines, 1908

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Maitland District Miners. Special Court Asked For

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 December 1908 · page 5

At a meeting of the committee of management of the Colliery Employees Federation at Newcastle yesterday a letter was read from the secretary of the Colliery…

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Coal for China

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 December 1908 · page 4

Mr. Sutter's recent report about the position and prospects of our coal trade with China, erphasises two things, the need for storage, and the harm caused by strikes and rumours of strikes. Japan…

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Coal Prospects in China

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 December 1908 · page 10

There is a big demand in China for coal and Mr. J. B. Suttor, Trade Commissioner for New South Wales in the East, is anxious that New South Wales coal exporters…

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A Mining Co-partnership

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 December 1908 · page 5

Sir Christopher Furness, the prominent shipbuilder, has purchased Wingote grage Colliery, Durham, to initiate a co-partnership similar to that of the shipbuilding…

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South Greta Colliery, Anothe Difficulty Arises

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 December 1908 · page 2

Further trouble has occurred at the South Greta Colliery, in consequence of which there was no work to-dny. The usual cavil for places having become due, representatives of…

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A Kentucky Mining Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 December 1908 · page 3

The Governor of Kentucky has ordered out a company of State militia to assist the marshalls in suppressing rioting in Whity County, where the miners are on…

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South Greta Colliery. the Cavilling Trouble

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 December 1908 · page 5

In response to the wishes of the South Greta Miners' Lodge, Mr. A. Lewis, district treasurer, came up from Newcastle late yesterday afternoon to inquire into the trouble over the cavilling…

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St. Arnaud "Honey." How a Mine Was Robbed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 December 1908 · page 5

Supe [?]intendent Sainsbury, of Bendigo, recently obtained information that gold was being st[?]len from one of the mines at St. Arnaud, Victoria. It was ascertained that…

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South Greta Colliery Trouble I the Men Tand Firm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 December 1908 · page 4

The latest phase of the South Greta colliery trouble was considered at a meeting of the lodge lost night, when the attitude adopted by the manager was strongly criticised, and a resolution was…

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Pay at the Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 December 1908 · page 2

The fortnightly pay drawn by the employees of the East Greta and Stanford-Merthyr collieries this afternoon amounted to £4080 14s 8d…

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Cartage of Coal

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 December 1908 · page 2

Tenders are invited in our advertising columns for the cartage of coal from railway station to the factory of the Singleton F. and D. Co. Particulars…

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St. Arnaud [?]Honey." How a Mine was Robbed

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 December 1908 · page 1

Superintendent Sairsbury, of Bendigo recently obtained information that gold was being stolen from one of the mines at St. Ar[?]aud. It was ascertained that…

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South Greta Colliery Trouble Executive Officers' Straight Talk. Deputation to the Manager

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 December 1908 · page 2

The situation at the South Greta Colliery was discussed at a meeting of the men held at Walsh's Sportsman's Arms Hotel this morning, when there was some…

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Late News by Wire. Sydney, Thursday afternoon. the Mining Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 December 1908 · page 3

Judge Heydon delivered his award to-day in the Teralba coal dispute. His Honor said the views of his follow Commissionsers and himself had been divergent and so strongly held by each of them it was…

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