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Mataura Ensign, 14 February 1910, Page 3

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THE END OF THE STRIKE. RESULT OF THE MINERS' BALLOT. J , SYDNEY, Feb. 13. *1 Jhe Southern miners' ballot resulted • as lollows: -| For resumption to-morrow ... 1135 » Against „ J; ... (j56 ' -Majority in favor 479 * The district secretary has issued instructions to lodges to resume iu accord- ; ante with the vote. MIXERS RESUME DUTY. ' Received February 1-1, 1.25 p m I SVDXEY, Fell. I I. Some ol the Southern colliers have resumed work. THE BRITISH TROUBLE. agaixsFTstrike. Received February 14, .8.50 a m. LONDON, Feb. 13. In a ballot by the Northumberland miners who are dissatisfied with the working of the Eight Hours Act, 14078 favored a strike and U>,(jßlj were oiiihised to it. A two-thirds majority was necessary. A MISSING £IOOO. \\ hat has become of the £IOOO reported to have been forwarded bv tlie Durham miners, of England!' (says the Kurri kurri correspondent of the; Sydney "Daily Telegraph 1 ). The question is causing discussion here. It appears that a prominent miner's official saw a paragraph in the 'Glasgow Maii 1 1 tilt tIUOO was cabled eight weeks ago 1 to the Strike Fund. On inquiry at < the Trades Hall no one now in charge knew anything about it, nor could any 1 record be found. The question that is ; agitating the men is: Was it ever cabled, after being voted, and if so 1 who received it here? There is, of > course, yet another question : Did tlia 'Glasgow Mail' make a mistake? It •' seems extraordinary that' any such i vote should have been passed and the i tact not find its way into the London J press, and thus, by' cable, to Austra- 1