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Water is terribly scarce at Coolgardie, and it has risen in price from 6d to 9d per gallon during the last week. Every day hundreds of men arrive on the field, and miners are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--This mornin-three men from the district joined the Sydney non-unionists who are working at the Stockton colliery. The men, to the number…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The second general meeting of shareholders in the New Royal standard Gold-mining Company was held at the company's office, Post Office-chambers, Pitt-street, on Wednesday. Mr. J. Percy Josephson…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Under-Secretary for Mines, Mr. H. Wood, has received a letter from Mr. Alexander Bennett, of the "Perseverance" lease at Ophir, between Mudgee and Orange…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BROKEN-HILL, Thursday.--ThE Broken-hill Extended mine has driven the crosscut towards the Central mine from the 1330ft. level for a distance of 84ft. The face of the drive consists of a hard mixture of quartz…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In response to a request from the miners of the Hetton Colliery for a local agreement, the manager, Mr. Mathieson, has promised to consider the proposal. The Stockton Colliery is still at work. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Friday.—Work is going on quietly at the Stockton Mine with non-unionist labor. Some 45 miners and 70 shaftsmen and laborers are employed. The unionists maintain that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, February 1.—The Scotch miners have demanded an increase of 6d per day, and have asked the coalmasters to form a board of conciliation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--The pulling up of the Co-operative Company's tramway by the Plattsburg Municipal Council is the topic of much discussion. When it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Your correspondent, Mr. Joshua Little, certainly raises important issues in his letter published in to-day's Herald, and your able comments thereon go far to throw much-needed light on a subject…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. John G. Carlisle, the American Secretary to the Treasury, recently invited tenders for 50,000,000 dollars' worth of gold upon 5 per cent, bonds,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At a special meeting of shareholders in Bayley's Reward Gold-mining Company, held this afternoon in order to consider the advisableness of changing the present company into a limited liability…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PERTH, Friday.—The latest news from Southern Cross states that many miners are being employed to comply with the labor conditions on the expiration of the term of suspension. In Bayley's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The latest telegraphic news from Southern Cross states that a large number of miners are being employed to comply with the labour conditions on the expiration of the suspension of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Water is terribly scarce at Coolgardie, and it has risen in price from 6d to 9d per gallon during the last week. Every day hundreds of men arrive on the field, and miners are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—The steamer Namoiarrived this morning at 5 o'clock with 35 non-union miners for the Stockton Colliery. The pit has not yet gone to work, although the new Lands,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—A public meeting was held at Stockton last night to consider the strike in that colliery. A committee was formed to try and bring the company and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GRETA, Friday.--The second instalment of strike pay, £1 per man, being the fortnight's pay, was distributed to-day. The executive decided that if men went away to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BULLI, Friday.--There are no further developments in strike matters. South Bulli colliery is still doing a little with a few hands who have returned, but no fresh hands…
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