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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1910

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Hetton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 6

A meeting of the members of Hetton Miners' Lodge was held in the Lodge-room, Wickham, yesterday morning. Mr. W. Sheridan presided, and there was a…

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Co-operative Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 6

A meeting had been arranged to take place in Sydney on Monday night, between Mr. Bowling and a representative of Kethel and Company, Limited. The…

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British Mining Troubles

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 4

Serious trouble is again brewing among the coal-miners in Great Britain. In South Wales notice has been given by the miners that their…

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The Mining Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 7

Sir,—I do not know whether "Argus" wilfully intends to mislead the public, but there are two glaring misstatements in his letter in Monday's issue. First, the…

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The Mining Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 6

Sir,—Mr. Lee, the Acting Premier, states that they have discovered that a portion of the coal mined at Young Wallsend was taken from Crown lands…

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Coal for Victoria. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 6

A member of the firm of Messrs. Lane and Dawson, Pitt-street, through whose agency the steamer Irish Monarch was chartered to bring the cargo of coal…

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Mining Crisis. Meetings in the South. Support for the North. Mount Kembla

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 5

A largely-attended meeting of the Mount Kembla miners was addressed to-day by Messrs. P. Bowling and D. Hutton, of the Northern Miners' Federation;…

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Colliery Wages Board. Engine-drivers' Case. Postponement Refused

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 5

The Newcastle and Maitland Collier Workers (not miners) Board sat again yesterday at the Newcastle Courthouse Mr. W. Edmunds is chairman, and the…

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The Mining Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 3

Sir,—In your issue of the 4th instant, a letter appeared above the nom de plume of "Justice," wherein certain statements by Mr. Bowling to crane employees at…

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The Mining Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 6

A correspondent writes: "The latest action of the Government in deciding to prosecute Mr. Bowling and others, under the penal clause of the new industrial law…

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New Zealand State Mine. Difficulties Settled. Wellington

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 5

The trouble at the State coalmine is satisfactorily settled, as the result of a conference between Mr. M'Kenzie, the Minister for Mines, and delegates of the…

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British Mining Trouble. Twenty Thousand Idle. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 5

Upwards of 20,000 miners are now idle in Northumberland and Durham…

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Mining Crisis. Mr. Bowling Interviewed. Settlement Blocked. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 5

Most of the delegates of the new or miners' congress were at the Trades Hall to-day, but according to Mr. Bowling and his colleagues, there was no…

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Senator Guthrie's Views. Price of Foreign-going Coal. the Real Difficulty. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 5

Senator Guthrie, who has been on congress duty in Sydney for the last few weeks, arrived in Adelaide to-day. When asked for his opinion on the prospects of…

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Tanami Goldfield. Report by the Warden. Port Darwin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 5

The Government Resident has received telegrams from Warden Gee, from Tanami, dated December 22nd and 24th. The warden states that he arrived at…

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Aberdare Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 6

A meeting of the Aberdare miners [?]s held in Anstey's Hall, in the [?]sence of the chairman on lodge business, Mr. C. Thompson was voted…

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The Miners' Fines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 6

Sir,—I notice by your to-day's issue that Abermain Lodge is sending the following notice of motion to the district:—"That this lodge recommend to the…

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Co-operative Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 5

News has been received that Young Wallsend and Ebbw-Main collieries will not work again while the strike lasts, owing to the Railway Commissioners…

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Colliery Wages Board. Engine-drivers' Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 4

The Newcastle and Maitland Colliery Workers (not mineral) Board sat again yesterday at the Newcastle Courthouse. Mr. W. Edmunds is chairman, and the…

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Coal From South Africa

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 5

A Newcastle firm of shipping agents received a cable message yesterday, stating that the steamer Daldorch had left Natal on Monday with a cargo of…

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