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Mining & the mines, 1911

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Stanford-merthyr Miners Lodge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 October 1911 · page 6

Mr. D. Germyn, who has bean secretary of the Stanford-Merthyr miners' lodge for a number of years, has resigned that position, and the assistant secretary,…

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Cessnock Miners' Lodge. Defiant Resolutions. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 October 1911 · page 5

The Cessnock Miners' Lodge has tabled the following notices of motion for consideration of the Delegate Board :— (1.).—"Seeing that we, the working class,…

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Queensland Miners Imprisoned. Rescuers at Work

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 October 1911 · page 5

A portion of the straight shaft at Marshall's Queen mine, Charters Towers, at the 300 feet level, collapsed and imprisoned Frank Bond and three miners who were in…

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The Maitland Coalmines Pelaw-main Miners' Lodge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 October 1911 · page 4

A meeting of the Pelaw-Mam Miners' Lodge was held on Sunday, at which Mr. R. Young presided. The secretary reported having received a…

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Gold Cross of the Kremlin

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 October 1911 · page 2

In collecting memontoes of the Napoleonic invasion for the centenary celebrations in Moscow next year, attention (says the St. Petersburg correspondent of "The Times")…

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Miners' Conference. London, Thursday evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 October 1911 · page 5

At a Miners' Federation conference at South[?] it was decided to support the Northumberland miners' demand for an increased minimum wage, and the abolition of three shifts…

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Miners' Mininmum Wage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 October 1911 · page 5

The Miners' Federation of Great. Britain has resolved to secure a minimum wage in all districts, irrespective of abnormal places, and has instructed the district officers to…

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Remarkable Gold Find

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 October 1911 · page 6

The story of the discovery of a rich find of gold in the "Old Brass Knocker" shaft, at Pambula, which has been regarded for years as being valueless, has a sound…

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Queensland Miners Imprisoned. Rescuers at Work

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 October 1911 · page 5

A portion of the straight shaft at Marshall's Queen mine, Charters Towers, at the 300 feet level, collapsed and imprisoned Frank Bond and three miners who were in…

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The First Gold. Hargraves' Historic Spot

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 October 1911 · page 14

The Orange correspondent of a contemporary wires that close to the famous spot' whore Margraves made has discovery of payable gold in Australia—that is, on Ophir Creek—rich…

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Coal Mining Accident. (By Cable.) Berlin

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 October 1911 · page 2

A terrible accident is reported as having happened at Dritmund, near Berlin. It appears, that while a cable-cage containing a number of miners was being…

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Mining Fatality. Berlin. Oct. 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 October 1911 · page 5

The snapping of the winding rope caused the cage to fall down the shaft of a pit in Dortmund. westphalia, and nine of the occupants of the cage were killed…

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Pelaw-main Colliery Idle. a Question of Wages. Kurri Kurri, Tuesday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 October 1911 · page 5

Pethw-Main colliery was thrown idle this afternoon through a dispute between the management and the machine-men. Available particulars of the the trouble are…

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"Brassknooker" Eldorado. Big Lode Carries Rich Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 October 1911 · page 4

A message from Pambush says:—The "Brassknocker" mine is as rich as ever. A crosscitt is being put in to test the with of the lode. So far it is estimated to be 20ft…

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Richmond Main Colliery. Development Progress

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 October 1911 · page 7

Within the next say a couple of years the above will be a name to conjure with so far as coalmines are concerned (writes a correspondent.) Development operations are now…

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Coal Cargoes. Malta

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 October 1911 · page 5

Italy does not consider coal contraband of war…

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Mining Trouble. Pelaw Main Colliery Idle. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 October 1911 · page 2

Trouble has occurred at the Pelaw Main Colliery, which employs over 600 hands. It has been thrown idle owing to a dispute between the machine men…

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Pelaw-main Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 October 1911 · page 5

At a meeting of the Pelaw Main, miners held on Tuesday evening a complaint was lodged that two men (father and son ) had lost several shifts because the son had…

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Gold at Pambula

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 October 1911 · page 4

Great excitement was caused at Pambula on Monday morning when Spears and party struck splendid gold in the rubble at a depth of 3ft., about 80ft…

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Row at Miners'delegate Meeting Pugillsm and the Police. Newcastle. Thursday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 October 1911 · page 5

What ws practically a free fight occurred this morning at the meeting of the miners Delegate Board at the Trades Hall. The trouble began immediately the meeting was…

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