A series of questions having relation to the railway and tramway services occupied the attention of the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 609 wordsThe P. and O. Company's big cargo steamer Palermo, with the first consignment of 5000 tons of Japanese coal on board, arrived yesterday, and proceeded to an anchorage in ...
Article : 541 wordsThere are a few hours of farther mediation in the coal strike. Mr. Learmonth had a long interview with the Premier yesterday morning. The Premier had been unable to advance his proposals with Mr. Hughes, and nothing was effected with Mr. Learmonth. ...
Article : 307 wordsThe Union Steamship Company have had to abandon the proposed summer cruise of the R.M.S. Makura to the West Coast Sounds of New Zealand, owing to the Newcastle coal ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. A. Burns, treasurer of the Amalgamated Miners' Association, addressed a meeting of 400 men at Helensburgh this afternoon. He explained the miners' mines scheme, and ...
Article : 267 words"They come late in the day," said Mr. Hughes in referring to the statement of the case by the proprietors. "Only twice in the whole thing is there any ...
Article : 317 wordsRegarding the strike at the State coal mine Mr. Semple, president of the Miners' Federation, denies having said "guns were ready." He admits having said that the Federation ...
Article : 64 wordsMelbourne woolbrokers and woolbuyers' associations to-night decided that the wool sales would be continued in Melbourne and Geelong next week, under the same special strike ...
Article : 43 wordsThe gradual rise in the values of wood recently has caused mill proprietors to rush their stocks of wood to market. To-day there were as many as 65 truckloads sold at ...
Article : 90 wordsAnother £25 was voted to the Strike Congress at the special meeting of the Wharf[?] labourers' Union last night. The President says the same amount will be voted each ...
Article : 119 wordsThe only work done in coal-getting this week is at the ironworks tunnel, where a quantity of small coal was got out for use at the blast furnace and other portions of ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. W. Brennan, secretary Colliery Employees' Federation, before leaving Broken Hill last night, briefly addressed a gathering assembled to hear Tom Mann. Referring to ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Railway Commissioners to-day announced a further batch of cancellations of trains on country lines. Several daily services have been reduced to three times a ...
Article : 76 wordsThe principal topic among the miners to-day was the official statement published by the proprietors. It was characterised as "a weak and indefinite statement" by the federation ...
Article : 172 wordsThe strike delegates, Messrs. Estell and Charlton, Ms.L.A., addressed about 250 miners at Korumburra to-night. Mr. Estell said that he and Mr. Charlton had ...
Article : 78 wordsBroken Hill is commencing to feel the result of the coal strike in business circles. Although the mines continue to run full time, the miners and other mine employees are ...
Article : 177 wordsMessrs. Toomey, of Newcastle, and Peters, members of the Northern Miners' Federation executive, addressed a large number of railway workers and others at Dungog last night ...
Article : 84 wordsA letter from a biograph proprietor w[?] before the Labour Council last night, offering to place his show at the disposal of the council for one night a week (Saturday excepted) to ...
Article : 66 wordsWhen the news of the decision of the conpress to work the Palermo with union labour was communicated to the officers of the Parliamentary Labour party last night, their ...
Article : 126 wordsA public meeting, called by requisition to the Mayor, was held last night to consider the reduction in the train service, and the inaction of the Government in connection with ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Ebbw Main mine at Greta continued to work yesterday, and the output for the day totalled about 450 tons. This morning the first shift was lost owing to the pump ...
Article : 263 wordsUntil about a week ago the delegates in the Strike Congress worked fairly solidly together. Mr. Bowling, in spite of rumours to the contrary, appeared, for the time, at least, to be ...
Article : 430 wordsUp to a late hour yesterday it was thought that the door had been finally and irrevocably [?]ut on mediation. The deadlock which had been arrived at—and which in every ...
Article : 1,201 wordsMr. A. Biggars, whom Mr. Bowling speaks of as his right-hand man, is now in Sydney on private business. Mr. Biggars is an exdelegate of the Colliery Employees' ...
Article : 321 wordsMr. Alban Gee, manager Sydney Meat Preserving Company, Limited, stated at the Homebush fat stock saleyards yesterday that his company could not continue after ...
Article : 437 wordsMr. Lee, the Acting Premier, remarked:— "Well, I am pleased. I have always heard that the P. and O. Company got on well with the waterside workers, and this will keep up ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Palermo lay yesterday moored in midchannel, off Kirribilli Point. Up and down her gangway climbed strings of lascars, carrying passengers' luggage and white ...
Article : 258 wordsThe Coal Mines Regulation Bill was further considered in committee to-day. On clause 90, providing that the Minister may open and work coal mines, Mr. M'Leod ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. H. M. Moore Sydney manager of the Ebbw Main and Young Wallsend mines, said yesterday that the coal which was hewn in these mines was sold to the public at various ...
Article : 73 wordsA local hotelkeeper was threatened that unless he prevented a certain colliery official from boarding at his establishment he would not receive the support of the miners. The ...
Article : 48 wordsThere has been considerable difference of opinion as to the days worked and the average received at the South Coast mines during the past few months. The following figures will ...
Article : 191 wordsSir,—Like a great number of our people who have lived very many years in Australia, and on the whole a great believer and admirer of the mental resources and genius of our ...
Article : 203 wordsAs already stated, shipping agents and others have complained about the action of the Chief Commissioner in refusing to haul coal which had been sold by them before the ...
Article : 240 wordsBesides its decision in regard to the Japanese coal, it is stated on good authority that the feeling of the delegates is in favour of accepting Mr. Lee's board on the ...
Article : 228 words"There's nothing to be said," said Mr. Bowling. "There's nothing to answer." He had been asked if he had any reply to make to the northern employers' statement. ...
Article : 228 wordsThe new steamer Mataram, which recently arrived here from her builders' yards, will definitely sail for Papua, Thursday Island, Port Darwin, Java, and Singapore on the 31st inst, ...
Article : 307 words"My opinion of the situation now is that it has reached an extremely critical stage. Everything depends upon the next 24 hours. If counsels of moderation and calm reasoning ...
Article : 276 wordsSir,—As the papers and general public seem to be at a loss to understand the cause of the present action of the mining section of the community, I will let you know, and through ...
Article : 1,300 wordsMr. E. A. Beeby, a solicitor practising at Bulli and Sydney, who has interested himself in the case of the South Coast miners in the present strike, wrote on Wednesday to the ...
Article : 428 wordsLast night, in the Legislative Council, Mr. Winchcombe, taking advantage of the motion for adjournment, referred to the Government statement thnt they were going to take for ...
Article : 195 words"Certain negotiations took place during the day," said Mr. Hughes," "but with whom I'm not at liberty to say. The executive and finance committees met, and also the ...
Article : 203 wordsMr. Bowling referred last evening to his western visit. "I had a better reception even than I deserved," he said. "The hall was crowded, ...
Article : 166 wordsThe M'Arthur Shipping and Agency Company, Ltd., was yesterday informed that the steamer Clan Sinclair, which is due here on Sunday to load for Dunkirk, Antwerp, and ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 3 Dec 1909, Page 7
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