The Miners' Wage
The announcement that a section of the colliery proprietors in the Northern District have resolved upon a reduction of the coal-hewing rate,…
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Mining & the mines, 1903
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Minmi. Miners' Meeting
The monthly meeting of the Back Creek and Duckenfield Lodge was held in Wlle's Hall on Thursday night, Mr. J. Marsden in the chair. The deputation which…
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A meeting of the Lambton. Miners Lodge was held last night in O'Hea's Hall to consider what should be done in connection with the notice for the reduction…
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LONDON, Friday.—The disaster at Frank, in North-West Canada, was caused by a rock slide, which carried the top of the Turtle Mountain on to…
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Notices were posted at the collieries embraced in the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association yesterday, intimating the proprietors intention to enforce…
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On Thursday Mr. William Turpin and his so Mr. T. Turpin, met with an accident while following tho[?] occupation in New Lambton tunnel. Mr. Turpin…
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In accordance with the resolution passed by the delegate board last week, an aggregate meeting of the members of the Colliery Employees Federation was held…
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A strike has occurred at the Coal Creek mine. The men went out this morning owing to the intention of the company to male a reduction in the rates…
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Yesterday morning on arriving at the Dudley Colliery a deputation of the miners waited on the colliery manager. Mr. Henwood and requested him to stop work for…
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The anxiety felt in Newcastle regarding the difficulty which has arisen in the coal trade is reflected to some extent in Sydney and the prospect of any interruption…
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Work was stopped at the Dudley collory at noon yesterday to enable the miners to hold I meeting for the purpose of dealing with matters pertaining to the…
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A special meeting of the above miners was held in Blackburn's Hotel on Tuesday evening. Mr. J. Halliday in the chair. The delegate read and explained the…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Messrs. Wedder, Turner, and, Company, have secured a contract from the Admiralty for the conveyance of 50,000 tons…
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The intelligence that a conference is to be held between the representatives of the Colliery Employees' Federation and of the mine-oweners who…
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Mr. Pratt, the legal manager of the Jumbunna Coal Company, arrived at Jambunna to-day and arranged to hold a conference with the members of the local…
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At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. before Messrs. E. A. L. Sharpe, P.M., and H. Crothers, J.P., James, Ralston, proprietor and manager of the South…
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The hearing of the action of John Martell, an ex-coal miner, against the Victorian Coal Minors' Association, for £1000 damages, was continued to-day in the…
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A meeting of coal proprietors associated with the movement for a reduction in the selling price of the mineral, was held in Sydney yesterday with the object of…
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There will be a widespread feeling of regret to-day when it, becomes known that the Conference which was held yesterday between certain of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →State Gold Yield. Sydney
A return compiled by the Department of Mines shows that the gold produced in this State during the month of April was 56,939oz crude, equal to 48,491oz fine,…
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