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Mining & the mines, 1911

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Welsh Coal Strikers. Financial Assistance. London, Tuesday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 5

The National Conference in London, representing 600,000 miners has agreed financially to assist the 12,000 Cambrian strikers…

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Railway Smash at Adamstown. Coal Waggons Telescoped

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 1

An accident having a remarkable resemblance to that which occurred at the eCutral Railway Station, Sydney, on Saturday morning, took place on Monday…

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Cambrian Miners on Strike. Relief Voted. Violence Continues London. Wednesday evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 3

The National Conference of Miners has resolved that the Miners' Federation shall contribute £3000 weekly to the Cambrian miners. Spasmodic scenes of violence are recurring…

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Failure of Fisheries. Gold Diggings Reopened. London. Wednesday evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 3

Owing ti the failure of the Helmsdale fisheries. the Duke of Sutherland is reopening the gold diggings at Kildman. Sutherland, Scotland…

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Miners' Conference Recommendation. Levelling Up of Wages. London. Thursday evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 January 1911 · page 5

The Miners' Conference has recommended the executive of the Miners' Federation to demand everywhere a levelling of rates in abnormal places…

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Resolute Miners

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 4

Williamson and Phillips, the two miners over whose attitude the South Coast coal strike occurred last year, are still working at Clifton. They are…

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South Coast Miners

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 4

At a public meeting held at Clifton a resolution was adopted, expressing approval of the Government's intention to try and ameliorate the shocking…

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South Coast Scandal. Miners Herding in Huts

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 6

The principia assistant medical officer of the Board of Health (Dr. Willis) has been investigating health conditions on the South Coast coalfields and has reported a bad state of…

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The Mayors at the Mines, an Enjoyable Outing

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 13

The Lord Mayor of Sydney (Alderman Allen Taylor), is on a visit to his brother Mayor of Newcastle (Alderman J. C. Reid) and to assist in the entertainment of…

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Letter to the Editor. State Coal Mine Question

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 3

Sir,—I see in your issue of the 21st instant, Mr. Edden gives an account of his visit to the Victorian State Coal Mine He says the place is an eye-opener to him. The…

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Welsh Coal Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 February 1911 · page 3

the South Wales Miners' Federation is applying for an increase of 21 per cent in wages, A thousand coalminers at Glyn-Neath, Glamorganshire, have struck work on the…

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Trees for Disused Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 6

A movement deserving support is that for hanting old colliery sites with trees. A scheme is at present being considered for a treating thirty-six and one-eighth acres…

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New Gold-mining Company. a Chillagoe Venture. London. Feb. 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 5

The Etheridge Goldmines Company, Ltd., has been formed with a capital of £60,000in 120,000 shares of 10s each. A hundres thousand shares of 10s each are…

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Miners' Residential Troubles. the Minister Interviewed. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 5

The Minister of Mines (Mr. Edden) accompanied by Mr. Pittman, under-secretary of Mines, Mr. Atkinson, Chief Colliery Inspector, and Mr. Kearsley, M,L.A., visited…

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Colliery with a Record

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1911 · page 5

The Tranent colliery in Scotland has been closed down after working for six centuries, and hundreds of miners have been thrown idle…

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Submarine Mines Explode

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1911 · page 5

Two submarine mines at Spezia, which is the principal station of the Italian fleet, and the chief Italian arsenal, exploded prematurely, with the result that three persons were…

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A Coal and Coke Investment

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 February 1911 · page 7

Squatters, farmers, dairymen, and country residents generally, desir[?]s of varying their investments, realising there is greater safety in disposing their…

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Fire at Heddon Greta Colliery Working Sealed Off. Heddon-greta

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1911 · page 5

Trouble has again been experienced in part of the working of Heddon-Greta Colliery, through fire breaking out. Part of the working have again been sealed off, and many of…

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Residences on Mineral Leases Interview with the Minister of Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1911 · page 6

The Ministe rof Mines(Mr. A. Edden) accompanied by the Under-Sectretary for Mines (Mr. Pittman), the Cheif Collieries Inspector (Mr. A. A. Atkinson), and Mr. W. Kearsley…

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Careless Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 February 1911 · page 3

Six miners have each been fined 20s and costs for entering a colliery at Coventry with pipes, cigarettes, matches, and naked lights…

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