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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1926

1,671 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 58 of 84

Gold Theft. From Teh Sonoma. Suspect Arrested. Vancouver, Aug. 27

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 August 1926 · page 7

Placido Joseph Duerest, aged 35, who was arrested on the Mexican border on July 15 and charged with smuggling aliens into the United…

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British Miners No Fresh Developments Mr. Cook as Wild as Ever. LONDON, Aug. 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 August 1926 · page 7

There is no tangible development in the coal situation. The House of Commons' meetings on Monday, to review the emergency…

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Colliery Fire. Queensland Outbreak

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 August 1926 · page 4

A fire broke out in the bottom level of the old Aberdare Colliery at Borehole, Blackstone. Fire has caused trouble at the mine…

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Miners Badly Led

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 August 1926 · page 5

The House of Lords adopted the resolution for constituting the emergency regulations, after speeches of protest by Lord Parmour and Lord…

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Coal Seam Near Murwillumbah

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 31 August 1926 · page 2

The chief electrical engineer and offifficers of the Mines Department are to make a general inspection of coal properties in the Tweed…

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Sonoma's Gold Man Arrested

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 31 August 1926 · page 2

San Diego, Saturday.—Placide Joseph Ducrest, aged 35, who was arrested on the Mexican border on July 15, and charged with smuggling aliens into the…

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British Miners' Strike Serious Clash with Police

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 31 August 1926 · page 1

London, Saturday.—Violent disturbances have taken place on the St. Helens coalfield, Lancashire, where mounted and foot police and 3000…

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British Miners' Strike the Men' Adamant. (By Cable.) London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 31 August 1926 · page 2

A way out of the coal deadlock seems as remote as ever. The miners are adamant in the position they assumed in April and Mr Winston Churchill…

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British Miners Calling Out Safety Men. Government Alive to the Danger LONDON, Aug. 30

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 August 1926 · page 5

In the House of Commons, Sir William Joynson-Hicks said that in the safety men were called on by Mr. Cook or anyone else, it would…

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Late Cables. the Channel Crossed Again. Hobbs Scores 316. the Coal Crisis. London

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1926 · page 2

A German, Vierkotter, swum the English Channel in 12 hours 42 minutes. Starting from Cape Griz Nez at 1.35 in the morning, he…

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Goldfields Murder. Sun Accidentally' Exploded. How Detectives Were Shot. Perth

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1926 · page 2

Tremendous interest has been aroused by the statement of Mr. Haynes, counsel for Treffene and Coulter, in the Kalgoorlle murder…

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Coal Contracts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 September 1926 · page 4

Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., has arranged with the Minister of Labor and Industry, Mr. Baddeley, to receive deputations regarding the…

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Coal Trucks Derailed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 September 1926 · page 4

Two coal trucks were derailed on the coalfields railway at East Greta Junction on Monday evening, following a collision with a train of…

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British Miners Meeting of Executive. Peace Proposals Left to Delegates. LONDON, Aug. 31

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 September 1926 · page 5

The minors' executive which sat in London for three hours decided by a narrow majority not to formulate any peace proposal, leaving the…

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Colliery Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 September 1926 · page 5

Stanley Jennings 17, living at Brunxton and employed at Rothbury Colliery as a horse-driver, was injured in the pit this afternoon…

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British Miners' Strike (Reuter Cable.) London, Tuesday Night

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 September 1926 · page 2

The miners' executive sat for three hours and decided by a narrow majority not to formulate any peace proposals, leaving the responsibility therefore to…

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Dove of Peace. Not Seen Yet. Coal Strike Negotiations. LONDON, Sept. 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 September 1926 · page 5

Nobody is at Present able to predict the course, of the Miners' Delegate Conference to-morrow. Mr. Ramsay McDonald and other…

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Abermain Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 September 1926 · page 4

Mr. A Teece, northern district treasurer of the Miners' Federation, attended a meeting of the Abermain No. 1 Miners' Lodge on Wednesday…

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Radio From Mine

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 3 September 1926 · page 9

A curious phenomenon was manifest on the occasion of the broadcasting by station 2 F C Balmain Coal Mine last Sunday (August…

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The British Coal Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 September 1926 · page 4

No greater calamity has ever befallen the industries of Great Britain than the present coal strike, which has now entered on its fifth month…

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