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Mining & the mines, 1918

3,145 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 158

Coal Mine Employees' Wages

The Australian Worker · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 2

Mr. A. C. Willis, Secretary of the Coa and Shale Employees' Federation, stated last week that that body was about to ask the Commonwealth Arbitration Court…

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Mining. in and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 6

Fairly steady market condition prevailed on the mining section of the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Barriers and copper shares attracted most attention, but, although the…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 9

An average volume of buslnoaa was reportod in mining scrip on the Sydney Exchange yesterday at generally firm pricos. Broken Hill concerns flgured prominently on the sale…

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Gold Ore Treatment

The Sun · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 1

The Privy Council has fixed May 11 as the date for hearing the appeals from the Australian High Court jurgments and cross appeals affecting the rights of British…

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Mining News

The Australian Worker · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 16

The Bonnie Dundee mine, near Hermidale, needs three or four hand miners, and the wages are in accordance with the rates that operate on the Cobar field…

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Mining Transaction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 4

At the Water Police Court yesterday, Thomas Austin Craven, 52, was charged with obtaining by false pretences the sum of £200 from George Edward Richardson, on October…

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Coal Overland. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 6

Sir,--I notice in this morning's issue of your paper a comment by a prominent shipping authority on Nos. 3 and 4 of my scheme. Surely he does not set himself up as a…

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Coal Men's Union. a Compulsory Conference

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 5

A compulsory conferance will be held at 12.80 p.m. to-day, at University Chambers, in regard to the trouble at the Burwood Extended Coal Mine…

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Struck a Mine. German Guardship Lost. LONDON. Wednesday Night

Evening News · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 1

A report from Copenhagen States that [?] German guardship has been [?] Laugeland, in the Balth. The crew of 20 was lost…

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Pay of Coal Lumpers at Melbourne. Increased Rates Asked

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 2

An application has been made by the coal lumpers section of the Melbourne Wharf Labourers' Union for increases in the existing rates of pay,…

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N.z. Coalminers' Strike. Men's Action Justified. Mine Restored to Safety

The Australian Worker · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 4

A cable from New Zealand last Wednesday intimated that the strike of coal miner sat the Taupiri mine, Huntly, had terminated…

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Raising the Wind. New Revenue Scheme. Royalty on Bunker Coal

Evening News · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 5

The New South Wales Government is at present investigating a scheme for raising more revenue by imposing a royalty or export duty on all bunker coal taken from these shores by…

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"No Mountain of Tin " A Mine Manager's View Describes What He Saw

The Sun · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 5

The hearing of the charge against Thomas Austin Craven, 52, that he obtained £200 by a false pretence from George Edward Richardson, was resumed this morning before…

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Coal Famine in America. a Terrible Outlook. New York, December 30

The Catholic Press · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 19

Actual, real, painful hardship fur lack of fuel pinches thousands of homes ami thousands of lives to-day, and millions live in fear of extreme cold and no coal. The…

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Victorian Raging Gossip. Desert Gold and the Futurity. [?]gton Sprint Candidates. [?]

Evening News · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 5

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V.a.t.c. Races. Desert Gold's Thirtieth. Poitrina's Oakleigh Plate

The Australian Worker · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 9

The Autumn campaign was begun at Caulfield on Saturday when the V.A.T.C. offered a very attractive bill of fare, the big plums of which went to New Zealand…

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Victorian Racing Carnival. the Popular Fancies. Yoorala, Red Pennant, and Desert Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--In the view of the public there is not much to choose between Yoorala and Petracia for the popular fancy in the Newmarket Handicap, but although the…

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Price of Meat Producers' Views "Not All Gold That Glitters" Mr. Hughes Surprised

The Sun · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 5

The Prime Minister told the graziers, pastoralists, and farmers and settlers to-day that he was surprised their objections to the fixing of meat prices had not been placed…

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Desert Gold's Great Gallop New Record for Half-a-mile "Cost Her No Effort" Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 7

One of the most notable exhibitions of speed ever seen on the training track was provided by Desert Gold in her gallop this morning. It was, of course, the feature of…

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Kalgoorlie Catholic Education on the Goldfields

The Catholic Press · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 34

His Grace Archbishop Clune is determined that no excuse will be given to the Catholic parents for their children not Laving Catholic education. His Grace opened a…

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