Miners' Wages Board. Mr. Paterson's Unpopularity. Sydney
A deputation to-day urged the Premier to remove from the Northern Miners' Wages' Board Mr. John Paterson as the representative of the Miners' Federation…
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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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A deputation to-day urged the Premier to remove from the Northern Miners' Wages' Board Mr. John Paterson as the representative of the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Probably there were many electors at the into Federal elections who gave their votes to the Labor party in the conviction that they were voting for a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fifteen thousand miners have gone on strike at Bilbao, Spain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An extraordinary story of a mob's fiendish vengeance comes from Pensylvania U.S.A. The incident was none other than the crucifixion of an unpopular mine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two miners in Bochum, Westphalia, were entombed by a fall of rock for 123 hours before being rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The miners at Heddon-Greta colliery are giving 14 days notice to the manager of their intention to cease work (says our mines representative). About a dozen notices have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following official communication has been received by the member for West Maitland relative to the blocking of streets in Maitland through the coal traffic on the railway:—"New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The little mining village of Helensburgh was on Tuesday morning the scene of an accident which would, had it occurred a few seconds earlier, have added many more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →While 16 miners were Leing lowered in a cage down the shaft at the Metropolitan Colliery, Helensburgh, this morning the gear of the engine went wrong, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The quarterly meeting of the Miner's Delegate Board was held to-day. When seen during this afternoon the secretary (Mr. Rees) said that the meeting would last till 5 o'clock, but that no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A ghastly disaster, due to the ignition of a case of gelatine, has occurred at the Simmer East deep mine at the Transvaal. Fifteen natives were killed outright, and 89 conveyed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sensational mishap occurred at the Aberdare Colliery about 10 o'clock on Wednesday evening. The cage, containing two loaded skips, was being hauled to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Evan Davies, deputy, about 46 years years of age, was killed in the Stanford-Merthyr Colliery at about eight o'clock this morning. Deceased was picked up in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Principal of Bexley Ladies' College, Sydney, offers two Ladies' Gold Watches for the best papers on arithmetic from girls under 17 years of age…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of the Colliery Mechanics' Association was held at Page's Grand Central Hotel on Saturday. The president, Mr R. Emanuels, occupied the chair. The secretary (Mr. W. Walker)gave a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A decided depression is now setting in in connection with the northern coal trade. This is not unusual for this period of the year ; but the slackness is accentuated by the fact that the brisk…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A case of importance to the mining community was decided at the Cessnock Police Court on Saturday. It was one in which Mr. Robert Kelsick, manager of the Caledonian Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An application was made at the Industrial Court for an order dissolving the Newcastle Collieries' Miners' Board and for the constitution of a new Board. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A big fire broke out in the Hocking coal mine. Terrchaus, but owing to a se cond shaft the lives of 200 miners work ing below were saved. Sixteen mules…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Industrial Court this morning an application was made to Judge Hey don, on behalf of the Colliery Em ployees' Federation, for an order…
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