Arithmetic Competition for Girls. a Gold Watch for the Best Paper
The Principal of the Bexley Ladies' College, Sydney, offers a Lady's Gold Watch for the best paper on arithmetic for girls under…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1909
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South Australia's Coal Mine. What the Maitland Purchase Will Mean
In the Assembly at Adelaide on Tuesday the Commissioner for Works moved the second reading of the bill authorising the purchase of a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Coal Strike
The miners at Clifton who are now on strike have not the slightest intention of giving in. The sympathy of the Newcastle miners with the men at Clifton…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Coal Strike. Northern Miners Cease Work
On Saturday the Coal Miners' Delegate Board decided to call out all the miners in the northern district, and to appeal to the southern and western…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strikers Not Unanimous. Bulli Miners Firm
SYDNEY, TUESDAY, 10 P.M.—South Bulli men decided not to strike. The Miners Conference was opened at the Trades Hall. The Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A General Strike Feared. Ignorance and Doubt. Coal £3 10s a Ton
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—No overtures have yet been made by either side. The great bulk of the men are ignorant as to the cause of stoppage of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Strike. Industry Paralysed
SYDNEY. Monday Morning. Every coal mine in the Northern District is deserted. Over 12,000 men are out on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Strike. the Trouble Deepening. the State Industry. Sydney
The Labor Conference has carried a resolution tp the effect that the Colliery Proprietors be asked to meet the employees…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Employees on Strike. 20,000 Men Affected
A TELEGRAM from Sydney on Monday stated :-- Following upon the decision arrived at by the various miners' lodges,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mining Plant Destroyed
A disastrous fire occurred at the Great Boulder Perseverance Mine, Kalgoorlie, yesterday. A third of the plant was destroyed within…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Terrible Colliery Fire
LONDON, TUESDAY.—A terrible disaster occurred in Cherry coal mine, Illinois, through a fire breaking out and cutting off escape. 460 miners…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Industrial Upheaval. Why the Miners Struck Work. The Strike so far Confined to Coal Miners
THE present strike, unlike those of the past, lacks a definite demand common to the wholes district. The men have been smarting under what they, term…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A General Strike. All Unions Associated with Coal
SYDNEY, MONDAY.—Representatives of groat unionist organisations met on Saturday to decide whether the strike should be extended. They sat all day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Strike. Conference Refuser. Sydney, Friday Night
The Proprietors of the coal Mines have refused to consent to the Conference asked by the men until they resume work…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Echo of the Coal Strike
It is reported in London that vessels with cargoes of coal from England for other parts have been diverted to Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Mine Disaster. How the Fire Originated. Six Would-be Rescuers Suffocated. Small Hope of Further Rescues
Further details are to hand in connection with the fire in the St. Paul Company's mine at Cherry, Illinois, U.S.A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Colliery Disaster
LONDON, TUESDAY.—Seventy-eight miners were rescued alive from the mine in Illinois which caught fire six days previously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Owners Quarreling. Alleged Disagrement. Miners Anxious to Return to Work. Sydney, Wednesday noon
Extraordinary complications appear to have arisen in connection with the coal strike. A Newcastle report states that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Strike. Proprietors Accept
The Northern Mine owners have decided to accept the Premier's proposals that the men should return to work, and a conference…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Felixburg Goldfields
The British South Africa Company's mining commissioner at Victoria, Rhodesia, reports that he has just completed the inspection of the Felixburg…
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