Dudley Miners
LAST night a special meeting of the Budley miners' committee was held for the purpose of investigating the case of the miners who have started on shift work. The general…
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Mining & the mines, 1897
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The Mining Conference. Question of a General Agreement
THE conference between the sub committee appointed to represent the colliery proprietors and the miners took place at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. The meeting was…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—Information has been received that the Chinese authorities, hoping that Germany will evacuate Kiauchou, have agreed to…
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The above miners held their monthly meeting in Sharp's Hall on Wednesday night, when a communication was read from the general secretary…
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THE recent conference between colliery proprietors and miners of the Newcastle district differed in one important respect from former meetings…
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The four-masted barque Tweedsdale, at Brisbane, has been fixed to load Whitwood coal there for San Francisco…
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THE Premier laid on the table of the Home this evening a return showing that the total amount of money received by the Government for traction of coal form the northern…
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"RADAMANTHUS" writes from Victoria as follows:—Bearing in mind the tremendous fecundity of the average Victorian, for booming, it was not a matter of surprise…
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THE financial prosperity of the civilised world is largely bound up with the production of gold. Notwithstanding the local advantages of a silver…
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THOMAS SKILLINGS, a man 21 years of age and a resident of the Glebe, met with a fatal accident by a fall of coal at the Newcastle Company's old pit early on Saturday…
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The coal shipments for the week ending 6 a.m. yesterday amounted to 55,74t tons, as compared with 47,585 tons for the corresponding period of last year, and showing an increase of 8163 tons in favour of last…
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As might have been expected by the in activity at the dyke the pits of the district, with some few exceptions, have worked badly for the fortnight ended last Saturday,…
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The ship Cambrian Princess, now in port, has been fixed to load a cargo of Dudley coal for the West Coast…
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YESTERDAY afternoon, at about 3.30 o'clock, a young miner named William George, stepson of Mr. A. Edden, M.P., met with his death in No. 2 heeding in Newcastle…
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News has been received from Capetown that the barque Beeswing, laden with coal from Cardiff, took fire in Table Bay on the 15th ult. It was supposed at one period of the conflagration that the coals…
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It appears as if, the bailing-up of coaches is a lost art in Australia. Nobody will regret that it is so, for being stopped by a brutal highwayman and relieved of all one's…
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LONDON, Monday.—A cable from the Transvaal states that the Lydenburg coach has been stuck up and robbed of £12,000 worth of gold…
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THE above miners held their monthly meeting last night at Love's Hotel, Adamstown. There was a largo attendance. Mr. James Cook occupied the chair…
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A FEW years ago it was said, and with truth, that the Japanese coal was seriously competing in the Orient with the product of the mines of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence. the Coal Trade. to the Editor
SIR —I believe there was a conference last week with the coal proprietors end miners to take into consideration the present state of the coal trade, and to try and got op…
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