The Strike The Stockton Colliery
THE usual signal denoting that the mine was working was seen flying at the Stockton Colliery yesterday. After being idle for five weeks and five…
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Mining & the mines, 1888
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The West Wallsend Mine
It is the intention of the West Wallsend Coal Company to continue drafting labourers from Sydney to their mine until they have 150…
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Sir,—We have been led to believe that the agents of the West Wallsend Coal Company in Sydney had engaged eighty-eight practical miners, with the…
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The date for the commencement of the work of filling small coal at this colliery has not, we understand, yet been fixed, but most probably the…
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The French colliery strike at Etienne has collapsed…
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Work was continued yesterday at the Stockton mine, and the men began to feel much more at home than on the previous day after their long spell…
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The minors employed in the collieries throughout the United Kingdom are agitating for an increase of wages, and a great strike is imminent,…
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The cavilling for places by the men engaged on the second shift at the Stockton Colliery took place yesterday, and the men will start work at 2 p.m. on Monday. A…
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"IF," says Alexander Watt, in a pamphlet called "A Lump of Coal," "the great poet who wrote 'Sermons in Stones' could witness our day, and…
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It is stated as probable that the proposed work of filling small coal at the Wallsend Colliery will be commenced on Thursday next, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Threatened Coal Miners' Strike in Britain
The colliery-owners have, so far, declined to grant the increase of wages demanded by the miners, and it is expected that at the end of this…
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No definite information with regard to the commencement of the work of filling small coal at the Wallsend Colliery is forthcoming, but it is expected…
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A CORRESPONDENT who writes to the Scotsman on this subject says: The system of payment by measure an art in the filling of the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Victoria. Melbourne, Monday. Newcastle Coal
Five hundred and twenty tons of Newcastle coal sold by auction at Melbourne to-day for 27s 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Position of the Stockton Miners
The result of the ballot throughout the district on the question whether the Stockton miners should continue at work or not on the agreement…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Evening News" and the Miners' Strike. to the Editor
SIR,—The people of this and the other colonies desirous for information respecting the present strike have been frequently asked…
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The work of filling several thousand tons of small coal at the Wallsend colliery will be commenced either to-morrow or Friday morning. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Extraction of Gold From Pyrites
Messrs. Cosmo Newbery and Vautin, who formed a company last year to work their invention for extracting gold from pyrites, by which the…
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THERE is on view in the window of Messrs. Blackall and Hunt, Hunter-street, a large cake of gold, taken from the Moonan Brook gold mine,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal-trimmers' Dispute. to the Editor
SIR,—Seeing the tyrannical way the Master Coal-trimmers have adopted to ride over their fellow-men roughshod, and to bring it prominently…
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