NEW SOUTH WALES COAL MINERS.
SYDNEY, September 4. A joint conference of owners of colliers in Newcastle have drafted a proposal which the miners will submit to the Delegate Board. The transaction is secret, but it is 'believed the miners strongly object to making the minimum height of a bord four feet six inches, and demand five feet. They con?idev the increase of the selling rate and the advance of the hewing rate good concessions, but discounted by the reduction of the bord. "How long have you been a tailor?" was the- question asked a witness at the Arbitration (Jourt at Wellington. "All my life," was the answer. "Theii you are a born tailor?" was the next suggestion. The witness thought there was something in that! PreBently the president asked, "flow can girla live on 20s a week?" The seemingly irrelevant reply was, "When girls como to our place, they generally got married and leave> it." His Honor: "About the best thing they could do." The witness: "Yes; they leave us and get married, and become respectable women." After some considerable laughter had «uliaidfi£L, the witness hasleued to exnlidn,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2323, 8 September 1898, Page 16
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189NEW SOUTH WALES COAL MINERS. Otago Witness, Issue 2323, 8 September 1898, Page 16
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