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Mining & the mines, 1919

4,299 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 215

The Tanami Miners. Fears Allayed

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1919 · page 6

PERTH, Friday.--A police telegram from Broome respecting the Port Darwin scare about the Tanami miners reports that the Kimberley patrol visited the Tanami camp early in…

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"Coal Starvation." Position in Victoria

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1919 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Instructions have been given by the Shipping Controller that as the men came forward to work inter-State ships, preference was to he given the colliers…

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Coal for Italy London, Sunday Evening

Evening News · Monday 24 February 1919 · page 2

A report from [?] that an American syndicate has offered to supply Italy's [?] coal needs at prior considerably lower than those…

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Increased Rates Asked. Mines' Off-hand Labor

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1919 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The delegate board of the Northern branch of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation is giving consideration to the unrest said to exist…

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Coal Fleet From Sydney Shortage in Other States

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1919 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Owing to the urgent necessity of replenishing without further delay the coal stocks at Melbourne, Adelaide, Port Pirie, and West Australia, the first vessels to…

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Floating Mine On Route to Melbourne Destroyed by Rifle Fire Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 24 February 1919 · page 5

The steamer Aeon sighted a mine six miles from Cape Everard, 34 miles west of Gabo yesterday, on the direct route of vessels trading between…

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Miners and Strikes. Questions in Parliament. Secretary in Protest. Letter to Premier

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1919 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.--The Northern branch of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation has for some time been urging that an inquiry should be held into a…

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Miners Favor Strike Unrest Throughout Britain Cotton Trade Depressed Effect of Japanese Undercutting Vancouver

The Sun · Monday 24 February 1919 · page 1

The ballot taken by the British miners has resulted in an overwhelming vote in favor of a strike. LONDON, Sunday Night. There are fears of severe depression…

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Coal Miners. Federal Consideration

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The Federal Cabinet at its meeting to-day is understood to have had before it a request made by the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation for the reconstitution…

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Mining. in and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 7

Following wen among the closing mining quotations on the London Stock Exchange on Friday:--Broken Hill Proprietary b 67 s 68 Briscis b 4[?] 5[?] Mount Lyell, b 236 Great Boulder b 12…

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Coal Shortage

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Coal supplies are being conveyed to Port Pirle and Adelaide, where coal stocks, It is stated on good authority, have ranched a more serious position than…

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Italy's Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 7

A name news agency states that an American syndicate has offered to supply Italy's entire coal needs at prices considerably lower than the English rates…

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At the Collieries. Effect of the "Darg."

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 5

WOLLONGONG, Saturday.--The whole of the South Coast minus are working regularly. On account of The "darg" system being in operation at Coalcliff and Scarborough the output…

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Coal in Canada

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 14

According to estimates prepared by experts, there is enough soft coal in he four Western Provinces of Canada to supply the world for a couple of…

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Mine Sunk Off Cape Everard

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The master of the steamer Aeon reports having sighted and sunk with rifle fire a mine about six miles off Cape Everard (34 miles west of Gabo). There was…

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Floating Mine Destrozed. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 7

While on a voyage from Newcastle to Melbourne the steamer Aeon on Sunday sighted and destroyed by rifle fire a floating mine off Cape Everard. The mine was met with in…

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Garthforce to Load Seaham Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 12

The ship Garthforce, which is under charter to load coal at Newcastle for the West Coast of South-America, will take Seaham coal…

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Mining Lit[?]gow

Evening News · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 4

Industrial opposition and the [?] and within a radios of 20 miles of the town specially is progress mentionable on the Madras branch line…

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