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Mining & the mines, 1912

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Military Training. Coal Miners Protest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 January 1912 · page 4

Some time age the Stanford-Merthyr Lodge forwarded a motion to the delegate board of the Colliery Federation disapproving of the system of compulsory…

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Pelaw-main Colliery. Trouble with the Clippers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 January 1912 · page 6

The trouble amongst a few clippers at Pelaw-Main colliery culminated In the stoppage yesterday afternoon of the whole mine with the exception of a few special…

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On-english Englishman. Miners and Fishermen

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 January 1912 · page 6

Leaving out the first item, the Cornish coast , "Copper, tin and fish," still expresses the hopes of a large number of the inhabitants, who in the course of…

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The Mining Industry. Proposals for Peace

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 January 1912 · page 5

Mr. David Watson, president of the Colliery Employees Federation, at Newcastle in Thursday, replied to the remarks made by Mr. A. R. Cant, secretary of the…

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Standard of Primary Education. Qualifying Certificate Questions of Public Schools. Gold Watches for the Best Paper on Arithmetic

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 January 1912 · page 5

Recently over 12,000 boys and girls attending the Public Schools were examined in arithmetic, dictation, English, geography, and history, with the…

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Standard of Primary Education. Qualify Ing Certificate Questions of Public Schools. Gold Watches for the Best Paper on Arithmetic

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 January 1912 · page 5

Recently over 12,000 boys and girls attending the Public Schools were examined in arithmetic, dictation, English, geography, and history, with the…

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The Coal Mining Trouble. Huge Coal Depot. London, Friday evening

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

Several of the minors' tandem are urging a peaceful solution and a round-table conference. Many of the employers are willing to give…

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Dearer Coal

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

Coal rose 3s per ton to-day on the London Exchange…

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Welsh Miners' Ballot

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 January 1912 · page 4

London, Friday.—The result of the ballot of the Cardiff coal miners, on the minimum wage scale, is seven to one in favor of a strike. Six hundred and eleven…

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Un-english Englishman. Miners and Fishermen

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 January 1912 · page 4

Leaving out the first item, the Cornish toast, "Copper, tin and fish," still expresses the hopes of a large number of the inhabitants, who in the course of…

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Dog Has 12 Gold Teeth

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1912 · page 12

CHICAGO, Oct. 19.- Mexy, the three-year-old hairless dog, of Dr. B. H. Grosser, 934 La Salle avenue, possesses a double row of gold teeth. He has 12 of them. Dr. Grosser,…

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25,000 Miners Strike. Brussels, Jan. 3

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

Twenty-five thousand coal-miners at Borinage have struck work. The strike at Borinage was due to the masters paying the wages of the men…

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The Mining Industry. Proposed Peace Negotiations

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1912 · page 7

The negotiations between the colliery proprietors and the miners' representatives with a view to preserving peace in the industry are progressing slowly but satisfactorily…

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Standard of Primary Education. Qualifying Certificate Questions of Public Schools. Gold Watchies for the Best Paper on Arithmetic

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 January 1912 · page 3

Recently over 12,000 boys and girls attending the Public Schools were oxamined in arithmetic, dictation, English, geography, and history, with the…

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Colliery Officials' Picnic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1912 · page 2

The South Maitland District Colliery Officials Association held their annual picnic at Toronto on Saturday. Special trains were run from Stanford-Merthyr and…

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The Pelaw-main Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1912 · page 2

The Pelaw-Main Colliery employees, who lost a couple of days' work through a dispute concerning a few clipper boys, resumed work work this morning. So far, as could be…

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Run on Coal

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

The advance in the price of coal presaging further rises, has resulted in a tremendously increased public demand particularly in the North and Midlands…

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Labour Unrest. Threatened Coal Strike. London, Jan. 14

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

It is estimated that there will be a majority of four to one in favour of a colliery strike. Large majorities were recorded in Northumberland and Durham, though at a number of…

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Mining Disaster. Six Men Killed at West Wyalong

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

A terrible mining accident, due to tin irruption of foul air, occurred at West Wyalong on Saturday afternoon, resulting in the death of six out of a party of seven miners…

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Miners' Accident Relief Fund

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

Mr. Blanksby secretary to the board administering the Miner' Accident Relief Fund, left for Wyalong to pay a funeral allowance of £12 in report of each of the deceased, and…

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