The Strike. The Mining Conference
ON Saturday morning the representatives of the Northern Collieries Association and those of the Hunter River Miners Association met shortly after…
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Mining & the mines, 1888
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The Southern Collieries
The output of coal from the Wollongong district last week is the largest yet recorded. The Mount Pleasant employees received a five-weeks' pay,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Western Coal Traffic
The Western coal traffic has so greatly increased lately that we hear the Commissioner for Railways has resolved to hire 200 box-waggons from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What the Southern Collieries are Doing. (Illawarra Mercury.) Mount Kembla
Things in general are going on very unsatisfactorily at this colliery. The demand made by the miners for an advance on hewing rates has been…
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The following letter to the editor appears in the Hobart Mercury:— "Sir,—The present strike in Newcastle has turned the attention of all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Correspondence Small Coal. to the Editor
SIR,—Does "Miner" mean to assert that, if coal could be mined clean, and without making any small coal, the hewing rate would still remain at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →[By Wire From the Sydney Papers.] London, Sunday. Prospecting for Gold in Ireland
Mr. Morgan, discoverer of gold in South Wales, has obtained a license to prospect for gold over sixty acres of land in County Wicklow, Ireland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand Coal Mining
The Auckland Herald of 31st August his the following leader:—The closing of the coal mines at Newcastle gives an interest to the question…
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The Mount Pleasant minors have accepted the offer of 6d per ton advance. Sir John Robertson, one of the directors of the Coal Cliff…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small Coal. to the Editor
Sir,—I would like to say a few words in reply to a letter signed "Miner," and the answer to it signed "Fair Play." I cannot say anything…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Famine and Its Incidents
DURING strike times what is euphemistically termed "moral suasion" is greatly relied on by union men in order to prevent any of their own…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal-trimmers' Union. to the Editor
Sir,—In your issue of yesterday appears a statement which I must give an emphatic denial, for it is a libel on the Newcastle Coal-trimmers' Union…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Strike Affairs at the Linwood Colliery. Persecution of Non-Union Men
THE work of filling coal into trucks lying at the surface of the Linwood Colliery was recommenced at an early hour yesterday morning by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Small Coal. to the Editor
Sir,—I can hold in no longer; I must let out on "Fair Play," and ask him if he has the cacoethes scribendi, for really such is his letter on small…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Result of the Coal-miners' Strike
A telegram from Dunedin, dated September 3, says:—"The U.S.S. Company directors, after going into the matter of the coalminers' strike in New South Wales, find that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Southern Collieries
The men of the North Illawarra Company having made a demand for an increase in the hewing rate, Mr. Austin, chairman of the company, has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A School of Mines for Tasmania
THE possibility of a school of mines being established in Tasmania has (says the Hobart Mercury) often been debated, but nothing practical has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Strike The Mining Conference
YESTERDAY morning the adjourned conference between the representatives of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association and the officers and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[By Wire From the Sydney Papers.] Capetown, Wednesday. Bunker Coal on Fire.—ten Men Suffocated
A fire broke out in the bunkers of the Pembroke Castle at Capetown. Ten coolies were suffocated by the fumes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Southern Collieries
The miners at North Bulli having received an advance of 15 per cent., are said to have decided that if the Newcastle strike be not ended in a…
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