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Mining & the mines, 1908

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Mining

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 2 June 1908 · page 2

We are credibly informed that the Batlow Dyke mining property is to be given another trial under new auspices. It is intended to take the…

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Labor at Newcastle Mining Court Asked for Miners Attitude Towards Judge Heydon. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 2 June 1908 · page 2

A large and representative deputation to-day urged the Premier to have the Special Mining Court at Newcastle re-opened, so that the…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 4 June 1908 · page 5

The total amount paid by the West Australian mines in dividends up to the end of April last was £18,117,443. "A telegram from Cessnock, near…

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Boys Throw Colliery Idle

The Worker · Thursday 4 June 1908 · page 31

The boys employed as drivers at the Lambton B Colliery, Newcastle, N.S.W., have gone on strike, and have thrown the colliery idle. The boys waited in a body…

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Special Coal Court. the Case of the Teralba Men. Will They Wait?

The Worker · Thursday 4 June 1908 · page 23

A deputation representing the Newcastle Colliery Employees' Federation was introduced to the Premier on Monday by Mr. Charlton, M.L.A., their object being…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 11 June 1908 · page 5

Messrs. Hodgens and McNamara from 12½ tons of stone obtained from Merriang Reef, near Beechworth, Vic., got 90oz. gold recently…

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State Coal Mining

The Worker · Thursday 11 June 1908 · page 18

The " Sydney-Morning Herald, " a day or two ago, made tho following interesting admission concerning the success of tho New Zealand State coal mine: - " Doubtless…

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Illawarra Notes. Miners' Delegate Meeting

The Worker · Thursday 11 June 1908 · page 30

A special delegate meeting of Illawarra Miners was held in Wollongong on Wednesday of last week. Mr. T. R. Morgan, general secretary, and delegates…

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Miners' Congress. the Eight Hours Day Adopted. London. June 10

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 11 June 1908 · page 2

Mr. Bruce. a member of the House of Commons,on behalf of the Miners' Federation, submitted the Eight Hours a Day resolution to the…

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The Lady Mining Manager. Makes an Explanation

The Worker · Thursday 11 June 1908 · page 31

Miss Frances Newport, who was arrested at Melbourne, on May 15, on a charge of embezzling £300, the property of the Marvel Loch Gold Mining Company,…

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How Long Will Coal Last?

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 12 June 1908 · page 7

The world still has a considerable supply of coal. Germany is credited with 280,000,000,000 tons, sufficient to last 2,000 years at the present rate…

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Engine Drivers and Mine Owners. Dispute in a Serious State. Northern Collieries Affected. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 2

The dispute between the Federated Engine Drivers and the Mine Owners' Federation has reached a serious stage. The drivers' ultimatum will expire…

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Wages in Collieries. an Inter-colonial Proposal. Britishers Hold Aloof. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 2

The Miner's International Congress which is in session at Paris has resolved that all Europeans miners federations ought to limit the production of…

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Pickpockets in Sydney. Gold Watches Stolen. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 2

A clever gang of pickpockets are at work in Sydney. The principal articles stolen are gold watches. In two cases the victims lost timepieces…

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Mount Adrah News. Rain and Mining

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 June 1908 · page 2

THE sudden change in the weather has put spirit into the mining industry especially in the mountain country. The rain registered at Mt. Adrah up…

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Mining Mems

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 17 June 1908 · page 2

The Lady Milburn mine, Bark Hut, is looking splendid. On Saturday Mr. J. Hawthorne (of Hawthorne and party, owners of the mine) lodged in…

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Very Latest. Crushed by Coal Bunker. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 June 1908 · page 2

Three men, A. McBeath, J. Robinson, and W. Prescott, were severely injured this morning at the Eveleigh railway workshops. While lifting a…

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A Day of Reckoning or Better Than Gold. (Convright.) Part Iv

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 17 June 1908 · page 5

That afternoon Barfleet hurried from work, but instead of going direct home he went to a wine and spirit shop, where he bought a…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 5

Ballarat Branch A.M.A. have decided to procure an enlarged photo of the late J. Praed, general secretary, to he hung in the local office…

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Newcastle Coal Court

The Worker · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 20

The Teralba men will welcome the news that the Special Coal Court will take up their case early next month. They have labored under many disabilities for a long…

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