THE MINERS' STRIKE.
[PEB PRBBS- 1 AM9OIATIPS. J Gbrywooth, September 4. The export of coal last week was 4316 tons, over' 29oo tone being gent a way I on Saturday. " DuNBDiN September 3. The Union Steamship Company's directors, after going Into thja' matter 'of the oohl miners strike In New South Wales, find that It will involve very serious expense to them. . Their oonsjo^pllpn of coal is 150,000 tona per annnm, and no# that none is available m Newcastle it means purchasing m New Zealand at » higher rate. Orders have therefore been, given to captains to husband their coal,, and an increase In the time of trips may be expaoted. la addition to" this, they/ are deprived of baok freight from Sydney,, and as they have to take enough from* New Zealand for the round trip curtailing; outward freight earnings, k means a lost of £4000 to £5000 per month. -Next month the Gompatky will withdraw some of the steamers m the Sydney aervioe, and. freights are likely to-be increased. In oonheotioD with the telegram tt-bm Greymouth that the miners would not load the t'ukiki, it may be siated that tb» Pakaki is not cilling thsra to loa^, but simply to obtain a Bupply for the round trip to Fiji. No coal being ob4ato'»ble In Newcastle, a deteor haa to be made to Greymouth. ' . >, ,{;>; Invbhoakoili, September S k The Hokonoi Goal Company have been asked to quote a price for 2000 tons ot coal weekly, delivered at the Bldff for shipment to Melbourne* This Company is hampered m its operationa by th© circnmstanoes thtt the mine la '< on th» Forest Hill tramway, which was constraoted with pablio funds, bnt over whloh Government will not permit their looomotives or rolling etook to be run, consequently the Oompany have to haul ths coal several miles with horses, and then (Received September 4, 1250 p.m.) Sydney, September 4. -The miners m the Southern districts have demanded frorii the masters aa increase of the rates paid for heaving coal, and it fs feared unless the reques? b^ conceded the; men will go out on strike. , ,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1935, 4 September 1888, Page 2
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351THE MINERS' STRIKE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1935, 4 September 1888, Page 2
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