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Mining & the mines, 1918

3,145 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 158

Gold Rings for Soldiers Harden

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 March 1918 · page 11

At a meeting of the Harden-Murrumburrah Win-the-War League, it was decided to present all returned soldiers with a gold ring, suitably inscribed. The soldier, if he chooses…

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Northern Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 March 1918 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The disagreement between the management and employees of Stan-ford-Merthyr Colliery, as to the abolition of the afternoon shift, is to be referred to a…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 March 1918 · page 8

A fairly active market ruled in the raining division of the Sydney Stock Exchange on Sat urday the most noticeable feature being a fall in Broken Hill Proprletaty scrip from…

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Three Shifts. New Orde: for Co[?] Colliery

Evening News · Monday 18 March 1918 · page 3

[?] morning before [?] Court by [?] Association [?] of the…

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Carpathia Tin Mine Half-yearly Meeting

The Sun · Monday 18 March 1918 · page 6

The balance-sheet and profit and loss account, which were adopted at to-day's half-yearly meeting of the Carpathia Tin Mining Company, showed that the operations for the…

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The Broken Hill South Silver Mining Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 March 1918 · page 8

The output information of the B.H. South Company for the four weeks' period ended March 11, 1918, is as follows:—Crude ore: 19,400 tons of crude ore, assaying 14.3 per cent…

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£3000 BURGLARY Mark Goldberg's Jewellery Trial of Alleged Receiver Sulky Full of Gold

The Sun · Monday 18 March 1918 · page 5

The story of how £3000 worth of jewellery was stolen from Mark Goldberg's shop in Newtown, in August last, was told by one of the burglars at the Central Criminal Court…

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Mining. in and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 March 1918 · page 7

The Ratrut Basin Tin Dredging Company's yield for the first half of March was 11 tons of tin oxide, from 38,000 cubic yards of ground, won in 240 hours. Stoppages occurred on…

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Loyalists in Coal-mines. Unionists'Schems for Their Removal

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 19 March 1918 · page 7

The presence of loyalist miners in the Maitland (N.S.W.) coalmines has been the cause of a threat of further industrial unrest among the miners. In the scheme…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 March 1918 · page 8

A moderate amount of business was transacted in mining scrip yesterday, all sections receiving a fair proportion of the day's business…

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Protection From Mines

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 19 March 1918 · page 6

The following notice, signed by the New Zealand Minister of Marine (Hon. T. M. Milford) appears in the "Gazette":—"The Marine Department…

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Stamford Merthyr Colliery Idle. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 March 1918 · page 9

Stanford Merthyr colliery was thrown idle to-day owing to a dispute over the afternoon shift. The men contecd that the agreement made in 1914 provided for the abolition of the…

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Mining Shares

The Sun · Tuesday 19 March 1918 · page 3

Eastern tin interests monopolised the attention of operators in the mining section on the Sydney Exchange to-day. Heavy business was negotiated, at both the first and second calls, but value were…

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Miners' Earnings Not for Publication

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 March 1918 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Monday,--During the hearing of the Burwood Extended Colliery case in arbitration to-day reference was made to earnings at other mines. Mr. Justice Edmunds said…

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Laborer's Broken Leg. Bulli Colliery S[?] Claim for £2000

Evening News · Tuesday 19 March 1918 · page 5

Frederick [?] a labor[?] the Bu[?] colliery and Coke [?] was, on April 11 last year. [?] erection of a gentry of tram[?]…

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Treble Shift Award. Coal Cliff Position

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 March 1918 · page 5

Judge Curlewis yesterday granted an application of the Southern Colliery Proprietors' Association for an award to provide that the Coal Cliff colliery should continue working…

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The Coal Contract. Northern Proprietors Active

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 19 March 1918 · page 7

The colliery proprietors on the northern coalfields of New South Wales, referring to their protest against the contract entered into between the Victorian and…

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City Council Coal. North Bulli Tender Recommended

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 March 1918 · page 5

Tenders from five firms, Messrs. Lane and Dawson, North Bulli Colliery Company, B. Byrnes, Ltd., William Laidley and Co., and George Williams and co., were received by…

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Autumn Racing Desert Gold Again Another Track Record

The Sun · Tuesday 19 March 1918 · page 5

The feature of the work at Randwick this morning was Desert Gold's six furlongs in 1min. 17sec. The nearest time to this attained by any…

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