FOR some weeks past the general strike of coal-miners which has impended over this district has been the main topic of public interest, and, like Moses' rod in Egypt, has ...
Article : 512 wordsThe majority of these, especially sailing vessels, will be laid up, and their crows paid off, as there will be no work for them, and the steamers will probably seek employment ...
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Advertising : 1,445 wordsThere are at the present time forty-two sailing vessels lying in the port of Newcastle (exclusive of those already loaded or loading), having an aggregate register of 37,974 tons. ...
Article : 277 words"Now," said an officer of the Miners' Association, "you can see by the almost unanimous voice of the district not to give a week's grace, what is the feeling amongst the ...
Article : 150 wordsSIR,—There is one point in connection with the work of our Conciliation Committee to which I respectfully ask the attention of the miners and the public. It has been ...
Article : 255 wordsAt the office of Mr. R. B. Wallace, yesterday afternoon, the various shipping agents of the port met to discuss what would be their best plan of procedure. It was ...
Article : 74 wordsIt is said that over £7000 was paid at the Wallsend Colliery yesterday afternoon to the minors for the past fortnight's work. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe all-absording question has at last been definitely settled, so far as a strike is concerned, the men having yesterday brought out their tools; but how long it will last, and ...
Article : 481 wordsSIR,—As we are now face to face with all the evils arising from a general strike in the coal trade of this district, it will be out of place for me to blame, either the masters or ...
Article : 563 wordsTo-night the whole of the available coal now lying in trucks at the dyke, and that which has not yet come in from the collieries, will have been shipped on board vessels at ...
Article : 310 wordsThe misery which this strike will entail upon the numbers of families who will be indirectly affected by the almost total cessation of work throughout the district is ...
Article : 134 wordsAnother special meeting of the Borehole Lodge was held in Williams' Room last evening to hear the report of the delegate on yesterday's proceedings. There was a large ...
Article : 557 wordsWe understand that the Newcastle Steamship Company will not be affected by the strike, as far as the supply of their steamers with fuel is concerned, as they have a private ...
Article : 63 wordsMessrs. W. H. Smith and Sons, Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Co., James Patterson and Co., and the owners of the Besswing, Tagliaferro, had Titus, are the principal ...
Article : 208 wordsFrom official sources it is reckoned that about 6000 men, employed in the mines under and above ground, are now out of employment. This, of course, is exclusive of the ...
Article : 58 wordsN. Blanch Brain has written to the Secretary for Mines, stating that he had taken the Narracan Colliery on tribute, and started work on Saturday. He will seed off coal ...
Article : 106 wordsA special meeting of the above committee, called by the Rev. Canon Selwyn, was held yesterday afternoon, in the Council-chambers. Present: Messrs. W. Laing, J.P. (chairman), ...
Article : 2,112 wordsThe Karaweara and Colac, which have been regularly employed in the coal trade between this port and the capital of South Australia, will not again come hero during the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe coal merchants of Adelaide are again on the alert concerning the miners at Newcastle and their attitude towards the mediators. The Karaweera arrived with a large ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. D. Williams, agent here for the Union Steamship Co., states that the vessels of that line will now coal at Greymouth, on the West Coast of New Zealand, where there is ...
Article : 81 wordsThe threatened strike at Newcastle is the absorbing topic in the Wollongong district. Although the miners of that district will not mix themselves up with the dispute the ...
Article : 96 wordsThese vessels will probably receive their supplies from the southern collieries, ...
Article : 15 wordsIt is understood that the delegates have communicated the issue of the late negotiation by wire to all the labour organised throughout the colonies, and soliciting ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Sat 25 Aug 1888, Page 6
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