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Mining & the mines, 1909

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Gold Watch Competition for Girls

The Inverell Times · Friday 17 December 1909 · page 10

We have received a large number of papers for the Gold Watch Competition for Girls offered by the Rev. C. T. Forscutt, B.A Principal of Bexley…

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The Coal Strike

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 3

The infallible panacea for all industrial ills, in the opinion of the revolutionary strike leaders, is the genera strike; in other words, the bringing…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Later. The Coal Strike

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 4

Proceedings in the Assembly last night were unprecedented. Dr. Wade met with vigorous opposition at every stage in connection with the bill to…

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Correspondence. Should Coal Be Nationalised?

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 20 December 1909 · page 2

Unless the industrial dispute in the coal district takes some happy, turn within the next few weeks -- or days -- in requires no prophetic vision to see…

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Stannifer Tin Mines

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 21 December 1909 · page 7

Stannifer Freeholds Deep Lead Tin Mines, Ltd., December 4 —46ft. of driving has been done as follows:—No. 2 E. advanced 20ft., total length 143ft…

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Howell Silver Mines

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 21 December 1909 · page 4

After being closed down for nearly 12 months, the Conrad mines are started again. A new company has been formed, now being called the…

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Telegrams, Sydney, Tuesday. The Coal Strike. Mr. Hughes and Mr. Wade. Western Miners Decide to Work

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 December 1909 · page 4

Mr. Wade, when asked if the Strike Congress might be allowed to meet today, replied that he could not advise them, but at the same time he…

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The Strike. Miners' Lodge Condemn Mr. Patterson

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 December 1909 · page 3

A combined meeting of Pelaw Main, Stanford, Merthyr, and Heddon Gretta miners lodges was held on Saturday afternoon, at which the'…

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The Coal Strike

Guyra Argus · Thursday 23 December 1909 · page 2

The Assembly, after an all night sitting, succeeded, by application of the Closure, in passing a new Strike Act through at all its stages. The…

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A Goldfields Christmas &ve. (Copyright.)

Guyra Argus · Thursday 23 December 1909 · page 8

It matters not what high-sounding names are selected by ambitious parents and sealed by the orthodox baptismal rites on infant brows, for, in…

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Mining Notes

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 4

Since the beginning of December rain of any benefit to the mining community baa been registered, and as a result nearly all the surface…

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Telegrams. Sydney. Friday. The Coal Strike. Southern Miners Firm. the New Legislation

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 4

The Southern miners are standing firm and will not go back till their grievances are redressed. The Sydney Labor Council has…

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More Trouble at the Strikers' Mines

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 6

Trouble is looming at the mines in which the strikers are engaged owing to the demand made by the federation upon the men. Last week there were…

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Explosion in a Mine—Another Illinois Disaster. LONDOn

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 December 1909 · page 4

ANOTHER mining tragedy is reported from Illinois(U.S,A.). The scene of the latest disastor is the Catterville Colliery, where an…

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Correspondence. [We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by contributos.] the Gains of the Coal Strike (To the editor Inverell TIMES.)

The Inverell Times · Friday 31 December 1909 · page 5

Sir,—Now that this great coal strike is drawing to its inevitable close some of the metropolitan papers are trying to count up the losses. Well let us…

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