THE KAWAKAWA COAL MINES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8376, 2 October 1890, Page 5

THE KAWAKAWA COAL MINES.

Thehe are at present about a dozen men at work at the Kawakawa coal mines. Four of the men who had given "24 hours' notice, intimated early yesterday that they would give 14 days' notice, as they deemed it only an act of justice to the company. These men had been previously threatened with violence, but they persisted in giving the above notice. A telegram received from Kawakawa,say*:—" Agitators ruling everything.,' A later telegram received last night is to the effect that matters at Kawakawa have taken a more serious turn, and a crisis lias now arrived in the history of the mine. The manager, it is understood, intends stopping the pumps at once. The miners have intimidated all Ihe free labour, and in consequence the mine will be flooded out, it is to be feared, for ever. It would appear that the miners have got no better or nobler programme, after having had all the benefits derivable from the workinjj of the mine for a quarter of a century, than to involve themselves and the company in one common destruction, and inflict irreparable loss on the district in which their own lot lias been cast.