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A largely-attended meeting of wood and coal labourers was held on Thursday in the Trades Hall, with the object of forming a union. Mr. N. J. Connington was elected president, Mr. J. Flannery secretary, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A further fall of 2/6 in lead, bringing the price back to £13/6/3, also copper still showing no signs of recovering from £69/2/6, with the buying quotations for Barrier shares…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On board the Burns, Phlip liner Mataram, due from Singapore via ports today, is a miner returning from the recently-discovered gold ranges in New Guinea, According to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cabinet has appointed Dr. J. H. L. Cumpston, of the Central Board of Health, Royal Commissioner to report upon the facts as to the degree of prevalence among miners…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Some trouble arose on the Junction mine to-day owing to the employment of a nonunion carpenter. This man, owing to representations on the part of a unionist, was…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mr. Knox, K.C., and Mr. Maughan, instructed by Messrs. Sly and Russell, appeared for the plaintiff, Joseph Vickery; Mr. Langer Owen, K.C., and Mr. Parkei., instructed by Messrs. A…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →It was announced yesterday that a company has been formed in Sydney to carry on mining operations on a large scale in Victoria. Some of the leading shipping and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—Much opposition is being shown to the [?]gate board's proposal for declaring the strike off, but Mr. Charlton, M.L.A., is making a vigorous campaign in this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man with many aliases, was arrested in New York recently, and charged with defrauding various English people out of sums ranging from £500 to £4000 and totalling…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →It was scarcely to be expected that after over 12 weeks' holiday, the coal lumpers would take kindly to work; and in consequence this morning, instead of there being no trouble…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Speaking at West Wallsend and Teralba yesterday to meetings of miners in those districts, Mr. Chariton, M.L.A. reviewed the position in which miners now found…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The British Foreign Office has arranged for China to pay the London China Syndicate £52,000 as compensation for cancelling the Anhut mines concession…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. George Burns, an ex-M.L.A. of Tasmania, and an old fining man, has been selected by the local leagues to contest the Illawarra seat (at present held by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →AFTER five weeks of strenuous labor the Bangonie sheep were all shorn. Early in the afternoon the last rough "cobbier" lost his matted fleece, and the shed was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mr. Knox, K.C., and Mr. Maughan, instructed by Messrs. Sly and Russell, appeared for the plaintiff, Joseph Vickery; Mr. Langer Owen, K.C., and Mr. Parker, instructed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Twenty thousand miners are still on strike in Northumberland in consequence of the dispute concerning the Dear Coal Act, while the number of strikers in…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →In replying to a deputation, the Victorian Minister for Railways said that the Powlett State coalfield was expected to produce 1,000,000 tons of coal a year—sufficient to supply all requirements…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Eight of the 12 collieries on the South Coast resumed operations on Monday in accordance with the decision of the lodges. At Helensbargh the men turned of at the pit, but an accident to one…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →On February 8, when the Suevic was leaving Port Melbourne for Sydney, the chief officer noticed the body, of a man floating in the water. The Melbourne police were notified, and the body,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. Thomas Burt, the English M.P., was fifteen or sixteen before he began to read, and then study became a passion with him. He walked ten miles to…
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