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Mining & the mines, 1916

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Mine-sweeper Sunk. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1916 · page 12

The British Admiralty announces that the auxiliary mine-sweeper Clacton was torpedoed and sunk in the Levant on the 3rd of August. Two engineers, an officer, and three men…

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Hidden Gold. Seized by British

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 August 1916 · page 6

New York Thursday.—The Copenhagen correspondent of the "World" says the British searched the liner Friedrich the VIII, from America to…

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Miser's Gold. Chapter V. Denwood

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1916 · page 16

"Father, dear, you really cannot reuse And, besides, what could we do with the place ourselves?" "She spoke very gently, yet with an…

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Mining Matters. the Tentative Agreement. Accepted by Northern Disti[?]ct

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1916 · page 2

The additional returns have been received by the executive of the COlliery Employees' Federation of the voting of the lodges of the northern district upon the tentative…

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Tasmanian Goldfield. Large Reef Found

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1916 · page 5

With reference to the rich gold discovery at Long Plain, on the west coast of Tasmania, one of the prospectors, William Bond, who has arrived in Hobart, says of…

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Work at the Collieries. the Fortnightly Pay

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 August 1916 · page 2

There was a loss of one day in the the worked at all the time worked at all the collieries of the northern coalfields during the fortnight, owing to the aggregate meetings of the miner. The full…

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A Coal Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 August 1916 · page 2

Foe the first time in its history Muswellbrook has a strike, the employees of the local co[?]lery having ceased work yesterday. About 80 members affected by it and the cause of…

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Local and General News. Aderdare Colliery Dispute

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 August 1916 · page 4

Our Mines representative reports that, the trouble at the Aberdare colliery, was adjusted on Friday, and work was resumed on Saturday…

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Miners Idle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 16 August 1916 · page 2

Owing to a dispute, with the management regarding conditions of working the miners employed at the local coal, mine threw the pit idle on…

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War Profits Tax. Position of Mining Companies

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 August 1916 · page 3

Large and representing deputations on Tuesday waited on Mr.Higgs the Federal Trensurer and urged that gold mining companies be exempled from the War profit Tax…

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On the British Front. Miners' Good Work

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 August 1916 · page 4

London, Tuesday.—Sir Douglas Haig reports:—The situation along the whole of the line is unchanged. A bombing attack westward of Pozieres…

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Mining Situation. the Tentative Agreement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 August 1916 · page 3

The majority of the South Coast Miners' Lodges have rejected the tentative agreement submitted to them but as the nothern and western districts, representing a large…

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Colliery Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 August 1916 · page 5

Mr. F. Teoce, a well-known resident of Abermain, was admitted to the Kurri Hospital on Tuesday suffering from a fractured thigh, the result of a fall of coal in the…

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The Coal Mine

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 August 1916 · page 2

Up to the present the dispute between the miners empleyod at the local coal mine and the mine owners shows no sign of being settled. Perhaps if a little "sweet…

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Colliery Mechanics. Settling Local Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1916 · page 2

What appeared to be a likely stoppage at Aberdare and Aberdare Extended collieries was during the week averted by the tact of the executive officers, of the Colliery…

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Colliery Proprietors Meet. Matters Satisfactory. Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1916 · page 7

The Colliery Proprietors' Association held an important meeting in Sydney yesterday afternoon. When questioned this morning, the proprietors, who had…

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Mining Situation. the Tentative Agreement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1916 · page 11

A conference for the purpose of discussing matters in connection with the tentative agreement recently arrived at between the Australian Coal and Shale Employees'…

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Miser's Gold. Chapter Vi. a Moonlight Night

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1916 · page 16

Norman could not sleep. He thought this was the result of the chatter and noise of the evening he had just spent. Up till now they had been so quiet, and the quiet was doing…

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War Profits Tax. Position of Mining Companies

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1916 · page 2

Large and representative deputations no Tuesday waited on Mr. Higgs, the Federal Treasurer, and urged that gold mining companies be exempted from the War Profits Tax…

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Mine "Fishing." How the Great Sea-bombs Are Destroyed. Perils of the Work in the North Sea

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1916 · page 6

Mr. Gordon Bruce, in an article written for the "New York Tribune," and issued recently by the British Press Bureau, describes his experiences aboard a British mine-sweeper in…

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