The Western Collieries
LITHGOW, Friday.--The local unemployed have been engaged a portion of the week by the council, some of the funds for the work being contributed by the Government…
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LITHGOW, Friday.--The local unemployed have been engaged a portion of the week by the council, some of the funds for the work being contributed by the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There is no fresh development in the dispute here. Delegates have been to Sydney, and represented the state of affairs to trade unionists…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Enquiries made by an AUSTRALIAN STAR reporter to-day in the city elicited the information that there are 36 miners engaged at the South Bulli colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Stockton Colliery is still at work by free labour. This afternoon a greater crowd assembled than usnal to watch the free labourers depart from the colliery. A number of females were present,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →HELENSBURGH, Saturday— The miners residing in the Metropolitan Company's houses have received one week's notice to quit. This is the only development in strike matters to record…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The nineteenth half-yearly meeting of the Burwood Coal-mining Company was held at the company's office, O'Connell-street, last week. Mr. T. M. Cowlishaw, chairman of directors, presided. The…
Continued on Trove, page 252 →Strike matters have been at a standstill during the week. At a full meeting of miners to-day, a proposal to the manager was submitted for 2s 2d per ton all round, equivalent to a reduction of 1¾d per…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →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 4 →The prospectus has been issued of the Craesus Gold-mining Company, No Liability of Western Australia, the capital being £45,000, in £1 shares. The property lies…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The rails of the Cooperative colliery tramway, which were removed by the Plattsburg Municipal Council on Wednesday, were replaced by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BETURNS just to hand from the White Cliffs opal field show that the quantity of opal sold during last year amounted in value to about, £16,000. This does not include the amount sold…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Coal has been placed on the free list in the new. tariff in the United States. This is no unimportant announcement for New South Wales. Our collieries should be able to profit by the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The second instalment of strike pay, £1 per man, being a fortnight's pay, was distributed to-day. The executive decided that the men who went away to look for work should receive their share, and this…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →4 p.m. No sales were effected at the last call…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Thursday Night.--The Scotch coalminers have demanded an advance of 6d per day in wages, and have requested the colliery proprietors to agree to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the South Mine the sulphide concentrating plant is working very smoothly. The stuff treated averages in the crude ore 7oz Bilver, 47 percent, lead, and 15 per cent. zinc. After concentration…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →In accordance with a notice given to the Stockton miners yesterday by the manager to take their tools out of tne colliery within 24 hours, the men withdrew their tools this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 252 →Tue experimental concentrating plant at Block 10 has been working intermittently during the week, but without marked success. The ore which is being experimented upon is not ordinary sulphides,…
Continued on Trove, page 252 →Prospecting work in the lower levels of Block 14 has not lately resulted in any developments of a favourable character, and for the past week there is practically no change to record in the various…
Continued on Trove, page 225 →Writes Mr. Labouchere, MP, in London TRUTH :— As for those South African Chartered Company shares, they are valueless as an investment…
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