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Mining & the mines, 1920

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Year Old Struggle Coal Miners Provide Support

Evening News · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 1

The chief claim by the miners was for a six-hour working day, which, it was claimed, was rendered necessary owing to the nature of the work underground…

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Coal for Honolulu

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 4

The five-masted barquentine Forest Dream was despatched from Newcastle on Tuesday by the Caledonian Collieries, Limited, for Honolulu with…

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Monthly Coal Export

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 2

The quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle during last month was 382,508 tons. Shipments for Commonwealth and New Zealand ports…

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Coal for Java

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 5

The Scottish-Australian Mining Company, Ltd., has been advised by wireless that the Japanese steamer Kaian Maru, which is to load coal at…

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Mining Notes

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 5

Mr. Peacock, of Edna May Deep levels, advises: "Crushed 920 tons for S84oz 3dwts, sands valued 6/." The mine manager of Tryconnell…

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White Hope and Mutooroo Mines. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 8

Crosscutting west from No. 2 shaft, at a depth of 100ft has been started at the White Hope, and the lode should be struck by the end of the week. At 40ft from the surface a…

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Red Wharf Mine. (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter IX.--(Continued.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 9

"Please, please, don't think or speak like that I" said Isa in alarm, and impulsively laying her hand on his arm with a gently persuasive touch. "For one thing, it is foolish…

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Export of Coal. Effect of Restriction. London, June 2

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 5

It is stated that the export of coal henceforth will be limited to 1,700,000 tons monthly, or 20,000,000 tons yearly, as compared with 73,500,000 tons exported in 1913…

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The Patroness of Miners. How the Feast of Santa Barbara Is Honored in Castile

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 33

An English gentleman, a member of the Royal Academy of Spain, writes from Burgos the following description of a beautiful custom among the…

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Ukrainia Anxious Krassin's Talk of Gold Protest to Britain LONDON, May 31

The Sun · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 1

The Ukrainian diplomatic mission has written to Mr. Lloyd George and the Foreign Office, protesting against Krassin's reported intention to pay…

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Hidden Hold: a Mining Story ^w Chapter Viii. Mother and Daughter

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 44

The scene between her mother and herself on the night of Gerald Parker's first visit was one of those memories which/ in after years, Jocelyn…

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Met at the Lift Coal-owners and Miners. Conference That Lapsed

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 June 1920 · page 4

Mr. E. G. Woyland, secretary of the Southern Colliery Proprietors' Association, yesterday made the following statement:-- '"The secretaries of the northern, southern,…

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Miners' Lodge Fees

Evening News · Friday 4 June 1920 · page 6

Paisy Male, Richmond Main, and Stan[?] Miners' Lodges have been [?] by the local scoters of their in[?] to increase the lodge fee per…

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Hill End Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 June 1920 · page 9

Mr. J. A. Crosby, secretary Amalgamated Hill End, Limited, forwards the following statement by the chairman, Sir Joseph Carruthers:--…

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Miners' Grievances Another Conference

The Sun · Friday 4 June 1920 · page 5

Representatives of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation will meet the secretaries of the northern, southern, and western districts…

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Mining Shares

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 4 June 1920 · page 5

A large turnover was again recorded in Hill End concerns upon the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. A meeting of shareholders in Marshalls…

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Mining Notes

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 4 June 1920 · page 5

The following new mining companies were yesterday added to the official list of the Sydney Stock Exchange:—…

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Kaian Maru for Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 4 June 1920 · page 4

The Japanese steamer' Kaian Maru, which is under charter to load coal at Newcastle for an Eastern port through the agency of the Scottish-Australian…

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Sofala to Load Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 4 June 1920 · page 4

The British India Co.'s steamer Sofala, which left Calcutta on May 9 with a cargo of jute goods for New Zealand ports, has been fixed to load…

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Loyal French Miners London, June 2

The Sun · Friday 4 June 1920 · page 1

A message from Paris states that it is announced that the miners are offering to do an extra hour's work daily in order to increase the present…

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