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Mining & the mines, 1912

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Mining Matters the Joint Committee

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1912 · page 6

The Joint Committee on Mining Disputes continued its sittings yesterday at Newcastle, Mr. C. Hibble, chairman of the committee, presided…

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Exploring the North. Coop Gold-bearing Country

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1912 · page 8

The report of Mr. R. H. McPherson. F.R.G.S., second in command of Captain Barelay's Northern Territory expedition, has been made available. He left Borroloola on…

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Coal Strike in Britain. Hough Scenes. London, April 12

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1912 · page 5

The revolt in South Lancashire has collapsed, as the troops overawed the young desperadoes who were the leading spirits in the affair…

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The Great Coal Strike. Question of Resumption. London, April 3

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1912 · page 3

The results of the ballot on the question of resumption coming to hand steadily increase the majority against resumption of work, but a great proportion of the miners…

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The Great Coal Strike. Miners V. Enginemen. London, April 13

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 April 1912 · page 5

Mr. Watts-Morgan, the Rhondda miners' agent, states that unless the enginemen are more reasonable the Miners' Federation will be under the painful necessity of telling its…

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Hebburn Colliery Grievances

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 April 1912 · page 5

The employees of Hebburn colliery are dissatisfied regarding certain working conditions at the mine, which they say, are not in accordance with award governing…

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British Coal Trouble. Miners and Soldiers. Work Being Resumed. (By Cable.) London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 April 1912 · page 2

Yesterday the miners of Leigh, Lancashire, entertained the soldiers who were sent to enforce order. The soldiers marched to church,…

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Help for British Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 April 1912 · page 5

The Abermain Miners Lodge has tabled the following notice of motion to be forwarded to the executive: "That the executive officers of the Colliery Employees'…

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Miners and Doctors. Disagreement at Kurri Kurri

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 April 1912 · page 1
Also in The Scone Advocate

As the result of trouble between the British Medical Associations' doctors and the miners a peculiar and somewhat serious position has been created…

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Britain's Coal Trouble. Derbyshire Surfacemen Resume. London, April 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 April 1912 · page 5

The Derbyshire surfacemen have agreed to resume work…

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Queensland Mining Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 April 1912 · page 3

The progress of the mining industry in Queensland is dealt with by the Undersecretary for Mines in his report for the year 1911, published In the Government…

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Down a Diamond Mine. at Kimberley

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 April 1912 · page 2

At Kimberley, Cape Colony, is probably the biggest hole in the world—the old "Central" mine—with a space measurement at the surface of 11 acres, and a depth of some 400ft…

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Immigration and the Miners. Indignation at Newcastle. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 April 1912 · page 5

Indignation of the colliery proprietors and also the business people familiar with the real facts of the matter has been aroused by endeavours of Miners' Delegate Board…

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Exploring the North. Good Gold-bearing Country

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1912 · page 9

The report of Mr. R. H. McPherson, F.R.G.S., second in command of Captain Barclay's Northern Territory expedition, has been made available. He left Borroloola on…

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Expensive Mining Methods. How Wealth Is Lost

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1912 · page 8

In an address before the Broken Hill Branch of the Australia Institute of Mining Engineers. Mr. T. H. Palmer, the retiring president, and general manager of the…

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Coal Strike in Britain. Fight Against the Federation. London, April 11

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1912 · page 3

In all 500,000 miners are now working. The chief hitch has taken place in South Wales. Here the Miners' Federation conferred with the enginemen, and urged them…

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Importing Miners Union Protest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 April 1912 · page 2

Despite the statement of the secretary of the Proprietors' Defence Association to the effect that there is a scarcity of minors in the Newcastle ami Maitland districts, the…

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The Coal Strike. Relieving Distress. London. April 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 April 1912 · page 5

The Christchurch Press Company, Ltd., New Zealand, has forwarded £400 to assist in relieving the distress caused by the recent coal strike. The sum has been…

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Proposed Mining Bills. Mr. Edden's Intentions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 April 1912 · page 2

The octopus-like tendencies of the Federal Government in regard to State rights, seems to be drawing New South Wales and Victoria closer together…

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