THE MINERS' MINES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 268, 13 November 1909, Page 5

THE MINERS' MINES.

NEGOTIATIONS WELL

FORWARD

HOW NEWCASTLE IS FARING

COAL FROM ABOARD

(Received Not . 13, 10.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 13. In connection with Mr Bowling's scheme for working a cJlliery-or collieries by the Miners' Federation, the pits. mentioned are Young Wallsend and Ebbwyale. Negotiations are in progress, and it is understood that steps towards completing the agreement are well advanced.

The effect of the strke are being severely felt in Newcastle. The export of coal for the week just ended was 1800 tons, compared with 10,000 for the previous week, and 80,000 for the corresponding week last year. The general trade of the town is at a standstill. . Advices have been received in. Sydney that a shipment of coal, has already left Hong Kong for Australia, and quotations have been received from Natal and Japan for cargoes delivered within a month. Reports from other States indicate that the effects of the strike are becoming serious. In Melbourne there ia an increasing tendency to reduce the number of hands employed in large manufacturing and commercial estbalishments. All existing coal i supply contracts in Melbourne wore terminated yesterday, the coritrac-, tors taking advantage of the strike: clauses in the agreements; The Aus- | feralian Paper Mills Proprietary have I

CAIBIiE NEWS.

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closed their works at Melbourne and Geelong owing to lack of coal. Asked in the House whether he had not .power under the law of Eminent' Domain to work mines as Mr Roosevelt intended to do at onetime in America, Mr Deakin stated that the law of Eminent Domain did not exist to the same extent in Australia as in America. The Cotnnionr wealth Government had not control over lands as the American Government had.