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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
1,137 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 57
London, Wednesday.—After two days' persuasion the Premier succeeded in indueing the owners and men to confer today. The meeting, however,was a fiasco…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The visit of the Governor-General and Lady Denman to Stanford-Merthyr Colliery yesterday was brief, owing to an alteration in the arrangements. It was at first intended that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Evidence of the decided improvement that has taken place in the coal trade of the district is afforded by the returns showing the rumber of days worked at the different…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The president and secretary of the Miners' Federation, Messrs. D. Watson and W. Brennan, visited Bellbird colliery yesterday, and addressed a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The miners' unions have distributed £1,043,250 in strike pay. They still hold scurities nominally wirth £950,900. mostly belonging to Durham, Yorkshire,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The "Statist" anticipates that the Minimum Wage Act will lower the price of coal by forcing the introduction of scientific mining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Considerable anxiety exists concerning the possibility of a strike at the Victorian Government coalmine Wonthaggi, owing to the local branch of the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three groups of small collieries in Lancashire, and one in Staffordshire inaugurated the ballot, and voted against resumption or work pending the settlement of wages…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The first stop in connection with the stoppage of work in the anthracite coal regions was taken yesterday, when the Min[?] Union ordered out 1,70,000 men, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Abermain Colliery was idle yesterday owing to a dispute between some of the men and the management. The report, which reached the Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The South Wales miners have held a special meeting, at which they declared the Minimum Wages Act to be unsatisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The price of coal has fallen 3/6 per ton in London…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The sphere of utterance of counterfeit coins quickly passes from State to State, so that it is well to be on guard when reports are current of the circulation of spurious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London, Saturday.—The Minimum Wages Bill received the Royal assent yesterday. About 1O.OOO miners have now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fifty-nine collieries in South Wales, by a two-to-one majority, decided in favour of a resumption of work. The ballot in North Wales resulted in an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One hundred thousand miners on the Pennsylvania coalfields have suspended work and a conference is proceeding between the owners and the miners…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A strike has occurred at the A[?] main colliery, one of the largest [?] shift mines in the Maitland district,[?] ploying 700 hands…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Royal assent given to the minimum wage Bill at noon to-day Balloting is now general among the colliers . The Crykinall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The quarterly meeting of the Pelaw-Main miners was held on Sunday, at which Mr. J. Grahame presided. In response to appeals from Central Greta…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The joint, committee on mining disputes sat, again yesterday at, the offices of the Colliery Proprietors' Association. Newcastle. Mr. C. Hibble, chairman of the…
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