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Mining & the mines, 1908

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The Coal Trade Disputes. Evidence Taken in Camera. Special Court Imperilled. Newcastle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 2 March 1908 · page 3

The coal minets' management committee at Newcastle held a meeting on Friday to discuss the situation brought about by the refusal of the…

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The Coal Trade Dispute

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 3 March 1908 · page 3

The minors' lodges at [?]oxidon been Neath, Pelaw Main, and Abermann collieries, have agreed to the decision of the employers that evidence before…

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Miners' Eight Hours Bill Opposed by an Extensive Combination. Increased Cost of Coal Inevitable. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 4 March 1908 · page 2

The Miners' Eight Hours' Bill introduced in the House of Commons is responsible for considerable anxiety amongst large consumers of coal, who hold that,…

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Coal Mining Dispute. Hearing Evidence in Camera. Objection by the Miners. Strong Language by the Judge

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 5 March 1908 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday, Up till lasrt night 21 of the minors' lodges in the Newcastle and Maitland districts voted on the…

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Wyalong Gold Miners Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 6 March 1908 · page 3

An a result of careful negotiations, which have been conducted during the last few days, there are good prospects that the strike of miners on…

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Colliery Explosion. Seventy Miners Killed. London, February 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 March 1908 · page 42

A terrible disaster has occurred at the Monterey Steel Co.'s coal mine at Sabinas, 150 miles north-west of Monterey, in Mexico. An explosion occurred, and 70 miners…

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The Coal Trade Disputes

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 6 March 1908 · page 3

The Special Mining Court (Judge Heydon, president), and Messrs. Forsyth and Bowling, members, resumed its sittings this morning in the…

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Cablegrams. Fire in a Mine. Nineteen Men Imprisoned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 2

Yesterday a fire occurred inthe Hampstead colliery, near Birminghum. It was caused by the upsetting of candles, which iguited the timbering of the mine…

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Coal Mining Disputed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 March 1908 · page 3

The situation arising out of the dispute in the coal trade at Newcastle was reported to be easier last night. The definite pronouncement of Judge Ikeydon,…

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Gold at the Mint

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 March 1908 · page 3

The quantity of Victorian gold received at the Melbourne branch of the Royal Mint during the month of February, 1908, was 02,013.25 ounces gross, or 07.731.80…

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Hampstead Colllery Disaster. the Entombed Miners. No Home of Resoue, London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 March 1908 · page 2

The [?]hanees of resoning the nineteen miners who look refuge in the worklugn of the Ilampuload Cellitary, Blrungham, are considered hopotoss, One if the…

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The Coal Trade Farce

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 10 March 1908 · page 3

The sittings of the special coal mining court were resumed at Newcastle this morning. The second ballot of the miners lodges, to decide…

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The Antarctic Expedition. Early Return of the Nimrod. Eighty Tons of Coal in Her Bunkers. Discord Among the Leaders Alleged. Differences Lead to Blows. Wellington

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 10 March 1908 · page 3

The exploring ship Shared, which arrived on Dunedin Heads on Friday, landed three men of the Antarctic expedition who required medical…

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New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. the Special Coal Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 5

The special coal mining court resumed its sittings at Newcastle this morning. The taking of evidence concerning the claims of the Teraiba…

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A Day of Reckoning or Better Than Gold. (Copyright.) PART I. CHAPTER I. of Marketable Value

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 4

Lord Civerstone waited while the woman at the ledge opened the gates—heavy, old-fashioned ones, that hung between two ancient stone pillars,…

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Dashed to Death. Shocking Accident in a Belgian Colliery: London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 12 March 1908 · page 3

A disaster has occurred in a colliery at Charleroi, one of the most important real mining districts in Belgium. Something went wrong with a cage; the…

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Miners' Eight Hours Bill Request for Postponement Refused. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 12 March 1908 · page 2

Grant concern is expressed at the Bill shortly to come before the House of Commons which is intended to provide for reducing the working hours of miners to…

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Blazing Colliery. Fired by Candles. London, March 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 March 1908 · page 42

A disastrous fire, which, fortunately, is not thought to have been attended by fatal results, has occurred in an English colliery as the result of failure to observe…

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A Stolen Ingot of Gold

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 13 March 1908 · page 3

In the District Court to-day, before Mr. P. J. Dwyer, P.M., a summons taken out by Detective-sergeant. M'Ma[?], under the Police Regulation Act 1890, under…

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Scotland's Shame. Houses of Miners. "A Disgrace to Civilisation."

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 March 1908 · page 2

The three days' annual Conference (writes the "Daily Nows" of 27th December) of the Scottish Miners' Federation opened in Glasgow under the…

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