Our Mining Resources. SYDNEY
A deputation, representing the Chamber of Mines, accompanied by Messrs. Nelson, Gormly, A. Chapman, and Arthur Griffith, Ms.P., waited on…
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Mining & the mines, 1898
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Strike Rioting in Illinois. Conflict Between the Police and the Strikers. Fifteen Miners Killed
LONDON, Thursday.—A serious riot is reported to have broken out at Verden collieries, in Illinois. Negroes are arriving by train to replace the…
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The coal shipments to foreign ports for the week ended yesterday were as follows:— Glenfarg, barque, 1370, Duckenfield, Valparaiso, J and A. Brown: King Alfred,…
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Sir,—A lot is being said about the fairness and justness of the Coal-Mining Bill. It is neither. Coal sent from the mines is in a more or less damp and wet condition…
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Sir,—I see by your issue of yesterday that the Minister for Mines is going to enforce the weighing of every skip of coal according to the Act, and not before time. It is giving…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gold Exchange and Tea Production
In their annual tea circular just issued Messrs. Gow, Wilson and Stantou, of London include a diagram to illustrate the injurious effect of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Newcastle's Coal Trade. Mr. Adam Cook on the Situation. a Method of Dealing with the Weighing Question. the Necessity for Early Negotiations
Mr. Adam Cook, the ex-president of the Miners' Association of this district, who is now council clerk at Wallsend, still takes a deep interest in…
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Nearly all the pits have again worked full time for the fortnight which ended on Saturday. Colliery shipping managers have still plenty of orders…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Burwood Colliery Trouble. Summonses Against the Wheelers
The wheeling dispute, which has thrown some 250 miners out of work at the Burwood Colliery, is still unsettled, and the probabilities are that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trouble at the Lambton Colliery. Wheelers Demand Extra Wages
The Lambton Colliery was laid idle on Saturday, and upwards of 130 miners were thrown out of work, on account of another wheeling difficulty;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wallsend Miners. the Draft Agreement. Further Reference to the Proprietors Favoured
A special meeting of the Wallsend miners was held on Friday evening, Mr. J. Bower in the chair. The chairman, in opening the…
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The coal shipments at the Government cranes for the week ended at 6 a.m. yesterday amounted to 45,597 tons, as compared with 49,616 tons shipped during the corresponding period of last year, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Lambton Colliery Trouble. No Settlement Effected
As was generally expected, the Lambton Colliery did not work yester day, the wheelers preferring to see Mr. Thomas Croudace in regard to…
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The difficulty between the miners' check-weighman and the company's weighman relating to the cleaning and subsequent weighing of dirty coal, as reported at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Southern Mining. Sydney
The pay made in the southern district on Saturday for the fortnight ended 8th instant was poor. Mount Kembla paid for 7½ days, South Bulli 8½ days, Corrimal 4¾ days, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Melbourne View of the Coal Trade
The following is an extract from a letter received yesterday by a commercial house from a leading business gentleman in Melbourne:—"The coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Difficulty. Proposed Legislation. SYDNEY
A report has been circulated in Sydney to-day to the effect that efforts are being made with a view to the introduction in the Legislative Assembly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Situation. Proposed Meeting of the Proprietors
The action of the Wallsend miners in deciding in favour of opening up further negotiations with the colliery proprietors, contrary to the decision…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Lambton Colliery Trouble. Thirty-two Summonses Issued
Mr. Thomas Croudace, the general manager of the Scottish-Australian Mining Company, was in Newcastle the whole of yesterday, but no deputation waited upon him in…
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Sir,—Since writing on the above subject I see that the Minister for Mines is going to put the weighing clause of the Mines Act in force on the first of February next…
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