Miners' Requirements. Deputation to the Minister. Amendment Bill May Re Withdrawn. Sydney, Tuesday afternoon
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 October 1912 · page 5
A deputation from the Newcastle find Maitland Minors' Executive wailed on the of Mines to urge the inclusion of certain amendments in the Mining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. Small Coal and the Hewing Rate
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 October 1912 · page 7
The Joint conciliation committee yesterday had before it certain claims of the roadsmen and wastemen at Hebburn colliery. The further hearing of this matter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wa[?] Mine at Work
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 October 1912 · page 5
The Waihi mine, New Zealand, was opened this morning after 20 weeks' idleness. Crowds of men and women lined the mine entrances and hooted those who resumed work, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Mines Bill
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 October 1912 · page 3
A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Isaac Chapman, Harle, and Clark, representing the Northern Colliery Proprietors Defence Association, waited on Mr. Edden, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Rights and Commons
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 October 1912 · page 5
Mr. Willis M.L.A., and Mr. J. T. Price, of Moonan Brook, interviewed the Minister of Mines with regard to the excessive de-pasturing of stock on Moonan Brook and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold in the Street
Singleton Argus · Thursday 3 October 1912 · page 2
A man named Jones picked up a nugget of gold weighing 5oz. 12dwt. in Templar-street, Forbes, on Monday. It is supposed to have been thrown up by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal in Belgium. Brussels, Oct. 2
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 October 1912 · page 2
Coal strata have been discovered in South Belgium, which should assure the country of a reserve supply for a century…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Conference. Nationalisation Urged. London, Oct. 2
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 October 1912 · page 5
A conference of the Coalminers Federation has been opened at Swansea. Delegates are present representing 600,000 members…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. Stockton-borehole Idle
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 October 1912 · page 3
Stockton-Borehole Colliery was idle yesterday. There are two or three matters in dispute between the management find the men, and these formed the subject of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Conference. London, Oct. 3
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 October 1912 · page 5
The Miners Federation Conference rejected a motion requesting the Labour party to introduce a bill to establish uniform wages. The proposal was hostliely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. Difficulty at Hebburn
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 October 1912 · page 6
The joint conciliation committee met again yesterday at Newcastle. Different matters were under consideration, and a report was submitted that a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bellbird Colliery Ventilations
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 October 1912 · page 4
The Bellbird miners have made rather serious allegations respecting the ventilation of that mine. They say that recently four men became ill as the results of insufficient air in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →COLLIERY OFFiCIAL'S REMOVAL
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 October 1912 · page 4
Mr. Walter Lyan, who has been chief clerk at Hebburn Colliery for a number of years, has resigned that position in order to enter into a business partnership with his brother…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Maitland Coalmines. Colliery Accident
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 October 1912 · page 4
William Benjamin Thomas, a miner,, was terribly injured by a fall of stone in Stanford Merthyr colliery yesterday. Thomas' was working a bord of tops in what is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pelaw-main Miners' Grievance
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 October 1912 · page 4
Some dissatistaction has been caused amongst a section of the Pelaw-Main miners owing to the fact a number of men, who lost two consecutive shifts at the time of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pelaw-Main Colliery Fire. Its Alleged Cause
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 October 1912 · page 12
Mr. Atkinson, the Chief Inspector of Mines, who has been inquiring into the cause of the fire at the Pelaw-Main mine, has returned to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →British Miners' Conference. Nationalisation Urged
Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 October 1912 · page 2
London, Wednesday.—A conference of the Coalminers' Federation has been opened at Swansea. Delegates are present representing 600,000 members…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Angry. Attack on Mr Edden
Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 October 1912 · page 5
Mr-Fern, M.L.A., on Wednesday night at Parliament House was in consultation, with Mr C. H. Davis (general secretary of the Amalgamated Miners' Association…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Congress. Five Days Working Week. London. Oct. 4
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 October 1912 · page 5
The congress of the Miners' Federation, which is sitting at Swansea, by 306,000 votes to 283,000 decided upon the Introduction of a working week of five days…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Maitland Coalmines. Colliery Fatality
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 October 1912 · page 4
William B. Thomas, who was seriously injured in Stanford-Merthyr Collyery, on Friday, in circumstance already described, died in the Kurri Hospital on Saturday at about…
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