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Mining & the mines, 1909

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Another Mine to Work. Burwood Extended. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 5

[?] some time there has been talk about [?] Extended and other mines outside [?] was starting operations. It is noe [?] that Burwood Extended will…

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The Coal Strike. the Wages Board. Bowling Objects to Patterson. Newcastle

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 4

WHEN the members of the Compulsory Wages Board (Judge Scholes and Messrs. H. S. Forsyth and John Patterson) took then seats this…

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The Coal Strike. a Gleam of Fight. Judge Scholes As Peacemaker. Newcastle

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 2

THE most important development here to-day was the meeting of the Compulsory Industrial Board, of which Judge Scholes was chairman…

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The Miners' Mines

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 3

The Ebbw Main and Young Wallsend collieries were idle on Thursday, the minors having refused to work on account of being called upon to pay a 25 per cent…

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Mass Meeting of Miners. Collieries' Wages Board. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 6

A combined meeting of Pelaw-Main, Stanford-Merthyr, and Heddon-Greta Miners' Lodges was held this afternoon, at which the following resolutions were carried:—…

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Miners’ Concert

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 3

Under the auspices of the Aberdare Miners’ Lodge, another of the series of open-air conceits was carried out on Saturday evening. There was, as…

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Miners and the Board

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 6

Even if the northern men appoint no counsel to represent them on the board, Mr. Paterson believes there is a way out of the difficulty. "I'll take Judges Scholes down tho mines and…

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Coal Shipments to Australia

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 6

About 30,000 tons of foreign coal, mostly from Calcutta, is now on the water for the Victorian railways. The Clan Campbell, with 4000 tons of Java…

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Coal-mining Situation the Strike Bill in the Assembly. Applying the "Gag." Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 6

There were 31 divisions before the Strike Bill passed its final stages in the Assembly, the Opposition Voting solidly against the Government in every instance. The proceedings were disorderly…

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Mining Warden's Court

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 4

At the Courthouse on Thursday, before Mr C. H. Gale, P.M., an application was made by Mr A. B. Shaw, on behalf of the Great Cobar Mining Co., Ltd., for a…

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Gold at Williams River. a Rich Find

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 7

'A' letter from Dara, received at Thursday Island, dated the 14th instant, states that authentic news has just arrived from Moresby advising a big alluvial gold rush on…

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The Coal Strike. Mr Hughes and the Premier

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 3

"I notice," said Mr Hughes on Wed nesday night, "that Mr Wade says I seem to have entirely missed the specific ques tions he put to me. I am very pleased…

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The Gains of the Coal Strike. (To the Editor)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 3

Sir,—Now that this great coal strike is drawing to its inevitable close, some of the metropolitan papers are trying to count up the losses. Will you let me…

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Mr. Hughes and the Southern Miners. "It's Mr. Wade's Affair Now

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 6

Mr. Hughes said yesterday that he didn't know whether the southern minors would go back or not. "How should I know?" said he. "It's Mr…

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The Coal Strike. Masters at Clifton. a More Hopeful Outlook

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 2

Although the majority of the men at Clifton express the opinion that the strike is to continue for some time, others are hopeful of work being…

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The Coal Strike. Position in Sydney. Difficulty with Gas Employees

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 5

There was another development in the strike situation on Thursday morning when the employees of the North Shore Gas Company refused to handle the coal…

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The Gains of the Coal Strike. To the Editor of the Chronicle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 2

SIR,—Now that this great coal strike is drawing to its inevitable close some of the metropolitan papers are trying to count up the losses. Will you let me…

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A Goldfields Christmas Eve

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 3

It matters not what high-sounding names are selected by ambitions patismal rites on infant brows, for, in rents and scaled by the orthodox bap…

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General Cable News. London, Dec. 25. Colliery Explosion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 December 1909 · page 3

A gas explosion occurred yesterday in a colliery at Carterville, Illinois. Fifty people were entombed. Nine bodies have been recovered…

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The Gold Brick Fraud

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 December 1909 · page 3

Charles Adama, head of a notorious gang, has been arrested in New York on a charge of swindling English people of £50,000 by a gold brick fraud. Among his victims was a widow…

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