NEWCASTLE QUIET.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7019, 6 January 1910, Page 8

NEWCASTLE QUIET.

AWAITING EVENTS POSSIBILITY OF SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT. ALL EYES ON Mil BOWLING. B? Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY, January 5. The continued idleness of the miners’ mines (Ebbw Alain and Young "Walkend), which it is now announced will not again work during the. strike, coupled with Air Bowling’s repeated assertion that the strike is approaching a settlement, load to tho belief that important developments are likely. Tiioro is a growing opinion that Air Bawling intends to advise tho miners to accept a compulsory' board as a means of settling their grievances. Several Southern miners’ lodges, after addresses from Air Bowling and other loaders, adopted resolutions supporting Air Bowling and tho Congress. Tho Coal Lumpers’ Union carried a similar motion. trial of strike leaders. DEPUTY-JUDGE TO HEAR THE CHARGES. (Received January 6, 1.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 5. A deputy-judge has been appointed to try Alessrs Bowling, Butler, Hutton, and O’Connor for participating in a strike meeting on tho South Coast last week. This course* has been adopted owing ■to Judge Heydon’s expressed disinclination to sit in judgment on Air Bowling—a former colleague on a Royal Commission —of whom ho had formed a high opinion.