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Illawarra · Mining & the mines
39 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 2
SIR,—The Present affords a favorable time to discuss the miners' right to an increase of pay for their labor. Are they untitled to it? Is it a righteous demand I believe it is. On the other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At length there seems to be a reasonable chance that the lamentable and ever-increasing number of fatal accidents in coal mines occurring not only in this country,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Report of the Department of Mines for 1881, just to hand, the following remarks from the late Inspector of Collieries (Mr. Thomas Lewis) appear respecting the mines in this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—A great deal of discontent prevails in this district at present regarding the question of wages. It does seems strange that the employers pay so little regard to the welfare of their workmen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—Resuming the subject of a rise in the miners' wages, I advance as the second reason the state of the labour market. Labour, like other commodities, is ruled by the laws of supply and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I noticed in last Friday's issue a letter from "Ex-Miner," referring to a rise of miners wages, which I think in uncalled for. I attended most of the meetings, but I never heard him…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I see we have got a second edition out from "Ex-miner" on the miners' pay question. I will not take up your space in trying to prove the correctness of 'Ex-miner's" report of all the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Now that the "second edition" is in print from "Miner," will you kindly admit a third from me in reply. "Miner" admits "that most of it is true as regards the hewing price." That is so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Will you kindly allow me space for a few lines in reply to "Ex-Miner's" third edition on the miners' pay question. I may say at the outset Unit unless he comes forward with his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Seeing so much of late in your paper about miners and their wagges, it may not be out of place to tell you what I think. In the first place, the miners' hours are too long. When the hewing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WORK at the mine is going on speedily. A locomotive, built expressly for the Colliery by the Bald win Company, of America, arrived in Sydney harbour about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Work at this mine is going on steadily. A locomotive, built expressly for the Colliery by the Baldwin Company, of America, arrived in Sydney harbour about a fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. F. R. Wilshire, P.M., and Mr. W. M'Court, J. P., occupied the bench at the Berrima Police Court on Tuesday. Robert Blair, John Thomson, and James…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The liability to spontaneous ignition of the cargoes of coal laden vessels, and the precautions that tend to lessen this liability, form a question the fall importance of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A volume might easily be filled with anecdotes of remarkable "finds" in Victorian goldfields. In midsummer, 1869, two poor men were at work in a gully,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE "Bendigo Advertiser" gives the following account of a terrible mining accident that occurred on Friday evening last at Lansell's NO. 108 claim, Victoria reef:—A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wednesday's Sydney papers give the following account of an appalling accident which occurred in a gold-mining shaft (No. 2 Australasian) at Creswick, Victoria:—The catastrophe happened at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TERRIBLE catastrophe happened in a mine at No. 2 shaft of the Australasian Company, about two miles from Creswick, at half-past 5 this morning. The men engaged in one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FIVE of the miners who were imprisoned in the New Australasian Company's mine at Creswick for 48 hours were rescued alive this morning their names are;—John…
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