Farewell to Mr. William Williams. Stanford-merthyr Colliery
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 June 1912 · page 4
Mr. William William, who has been underground manager of Stanford Merthys colliery for the past eight years. and who has severed his connection with the East Greta…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Colliery Idle. Unwilling Drivers. Newcastle, Monday afternoon
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 June 1912 · page 5
The Ellermore Vale Colliery was thrown idle to-day by a strike of horse drivers, One driver had given notice, and had come back to work after it had expired. In the meantime the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Maitland Coalmines. Use of Coal Cutting Machines
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 June 1912 · page 2
A conference of employes representatives at collieries where coal-cutting machines are in use, was held at Weston on Thursday, at which Mr. W. Robinson…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Coalmines. Pelaw Main Colliery
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 June 1912 · page 5
At a meeting of the Pelaw Main miners held on Sunday there was a discussion regarding the recent condemnation by the police of some of the pit horses. The district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Wales Miners. Age and Wages. London. June 17
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 June 1912 · page 5
Lord Sf. Aldwyn, chairman of the South Wales District Board, has decided that the minimum wage shall not operate after a man hue reagned the age of 63. He has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Maitland Coalmines. Pelaw-main Colliery Trouble
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 June 1912 · page 4
Members or the joint committee on mining disputes visited Pelaw-Main colliery yesterday in connection with the difficulty that has arisen through some of the pit horses…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Important Mining Case Coal Mine Manager Fined. Sydney
Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 June 1912 · page 2
An important mining case has just concluded at Wollongong, the defendat being the manager of the Corrimal Colliery, who was procceded against on an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hebburn Colliery Fatality. Inquest at Weston
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1912 · page 5
The district corner, Mr. Geo Brown held an inquiry at the Criterion Hotel this morning respecting the death of Harold Shenton, a young man who died from the effects of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Important Mining Case
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1912 · page 4
The important coalmining case which had occupied the attention of the Wollongong court for twenty days had been concluded. John Brennan, a miner laid an information…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Mine Explosion, Trinidad (Colorado)
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1912 · page 5
An explosion at hastings at a mine owned by the Victor American Fuel Company resulted in the en[?] of 13 persons who are believed to be dead. The resuers at first…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trouble at Whitburn Colliery. Temporary Stoppage
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 June 1912 · page 2
The Whitburn colliery was idle on both shifts on Thursday, on account of the manager (Mr. Thomas) refusing to reinstate two miners, who, he states, had filed dirt holing after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Disaster. Colorado, June 20
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 June 1912 · page 5
The bodies of twelve of the victims or the mine explosion at the Hastings mine have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Buried Under 40 Tons of Coal
Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1912 · page 4
John Case, 22, a coal lumper, of Sydney, had an awful experience at Darling Island. He was buried for nearly 25 minutes beneath 40 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Showers of Gold in the Street
Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1912 · page 4
A sudden outburst of generosity which prompted a strangely dressed young man, whose name is given as Charlie Green, to throw handfulls of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hebburn Colliery Dispute
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1912 · page 5
A difficulty has arisen at Hebburn colliery in connection with the drawing of cavils, the result being that the cavil has been only partially drawn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Board Award
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1912 · page 5
A neutral chairman of the Scottish Coal Conciliation Board has granted the miners an increase of 6d per day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Wales Miners. London, June 17
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1912 · page 2
Lord St. Aldwyn, chairman of the South Wales District Board, has decided that the minimum wage shall not operate after a man reached the ago of 63. He has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farewell to Mr. William Williams Stan Ford-merthyr Colliery
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1912 · page 12
Mr. William Williams, who has been underground manager of Stanford Merthyr colliery for the past eight years, and who has severed his connection with the East Greta…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A Chapel in a Coal Pit
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1912 · page 9
The miners' chapel in Myand Meniggd Colliery at Swansen, where for a period extending over half a century, the toilers of the mine have each morning gathered together to worship,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Work at the Collieries
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 June 1912 · page 4
The briskness which has characterised the coal trade of Newcastle during thoe greater part of the past six months is still seen in the continuing demand for both Newcastle…
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