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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
1,666 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 47 of 84
All obstacles removed by eleventh hour meetings last night, 7000 mine workers resumed work on the South Maitland field this morning. The resumption was general, every colliery that had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Owing to the resumption of work in the coal mines of the lower districts, the services of sixty miners at St, Heller'a Colliery, near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fact that an order has been placed for 14,000 tons of Newcastle coal by Eastern buyers is regarded as a hopeful sign for Australia in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A gold discovery in alluvial ground has been made at Myers' Flat, near Eagle Hawk (Vic.). The prospectors, Messrs Jackson and Gregory, sinking…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Western and Southern colllery proprietors are reported to have informed the Minors' Federation and other colliery employees…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Representatives of the cavilled-out miners from all parts of the district met at Weston to consider the position arising out of the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →All differences which prevented a general return to work on Monday having been settled at lodge meetings, there was a general resumption of work at associated collieries on the Newcastle and South Maitland fields yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The fact that an order has been placed for 14,000 tons of Newcastle coal by Eastern buyers, is regarded as a good omen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The reduced railage and orange charges which the Government is about to take, as its share towards the rehabilitation of the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of Glen Grere Lodge will be held at the colliery tomorrow (Friday), at 1 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The employees of Great Greta Colliery were notified on Monday by the management that the 12 [?] per cent. reduction was now in operation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following is an extract from the "Muswellbrook Chronicle":— With the return to something like normal conditions on the Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney was treated to the extraordinary spectacle last week of a nugget of gold being vainly hawked through the streets. The fact that no buyer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The men employed by the State Government at Rothbury Colliory have been given 14 days' notice. This follows on the resumption of work by…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Work at the Aberdare Colliery ceased yesterdat. The men complained that there were not sufficient men on the pit bottom,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The price of coal for local uses has been reduced by the Muswellbrook companies by 1/9 a ton to 23/3 delivered, or 19/3 a ton at the mine…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—The coal miners by ballot, at last, decided to end a senseless, strike. Can it be possible that they, as a body, have by this time developed sufficient…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Representing a chapter in a romance of real estate—the conversion of land formerly used as a coal dump to a model settlement, complete with cosy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It was learned to-day the Railway Department will save £100,000 a year as a result of the reduction in the price of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lawrence Moran, miner, aged 64, of Maitland Street, Kurri Kurri, collapsed and died when about to descend in the cage at Hebburn No. 1 Colliery…
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