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Mining & the mines, 1902

511 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 26

Forged Mining Scrip. a Man Arrested in Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1902 · page 13

At the police court, on Tuesday, William Rowan, alias William Plant, aged 23, clerk, was charged with that be on the 11th August, 1902, at Sydney did offer, utter, and dispose of and put off certain forged…

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The White Hell. a Terrible Picture of Woe in the Roumanian Salt Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1902 · page 6

The presence of the "Ruler of the Land" is always a sign of pardon and alleviation; and the pardons are granted by the King after he has read a list, iu which the director gives…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1902 · page 2

At Helensburgh Police Court on Friday, Thomas Gibson and James Andrews were charged by Mr. Jeffries, manager of the Metropolitan Colliery, Helensburgh, with currying matches while at work…

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The Maitland Coal Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 August 1902 · page 2

Passenger and goods trains run daily at 8.30 and 2.30 p.m, rom the East Greta Railway Junction to East Greta. Heddon-Greta, Stanford-Merthyr, and Pelaw-Main, returning at 9.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. (Sundays excepted). A Sunday…

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The Maitland Goal Mines. Heddon-greta

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 August 1902 · page 4

Heddon-Greta township, which is the only freehold land available in the new mining district, is making good progress. The principal Street, which is the Government Road lending to Pelaw-Main,…

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Bags of Gold Shipped as Personal Luggage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 August 1902 · page 3

Wilks' Jacob Wilkens, master of the s.s. Batavia, was in London recently fined £5 and £3 3s. costs for contravening the Revenue Act by not delivering a proper and correct…

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The Rand Mines

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 27 August 1902 · page 4

"The Engineering Magazine" opens with an article on the Transvaal Mines by Mr. John Hays Hammond, who is one of the world's first experts…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 August 1902 · page 2

In pursuance, of a definite promise made to Mr. Alfred Hidden last week, the Hon. John Kidd. Minister of Mines, laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly last night a statement relative to the…

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The Coal Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 August 1902 · page 3

Owing to tho minors' strike the directors of the Coal and Iron Company have given the their thousand employers a week's notice…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 August 1902 · page 4

At a special meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employes Federation yesterday, a number of local cases which are to be submitted to the Arbitration Court wore considered. Reports were…

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Cherry Tree Hill Mine. Department of Mines and Agriculture, Sydney, 25th August, 1902

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 2

Sir,—I am directed to inform you that, in view of the recommendation of the Prospecting Board, the Secretary for Mines and Agriculture has…

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The Miners' Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 3

In consequence of a strike of the miners, the directors of the Staveley Coal and Iron Company, in Derbyshire, have given the whole of its employes, numbering 10,000, a week's notice to leave…

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The Maitland Coal Mines. East Greta

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 August 1902 · page 14

The pay-sheet of the East Greta Coalmining Company, including Stanford-Merthyr, for the fortnight ended August 16th, amounted to £1830. The number of days worked—East Greta, 8 ;…

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The Maitland Coal Mines. the Aberdare Company's New Railway Line. an Important Undertaking

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 August 1902 · page 13

Excellent progress is being made with the construction of the new railway line being laid down by the Aberdare Coalmining Company from their property to junction with the Stanford-Merthyr line,…

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Our Coal Industry

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 August 1902 · page 4

Newcastle, in New South Wales, unlike many Australian places on which English names have been bestowed is most appropriately…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 August 1902 · page 2
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

The following in the number of days worked by the undermentioned Maitland collieries for the fortnightly pay to be drawn on Friday next:—East Greta, 5 days; Stanford-Merthyr, 7½;…

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The New Mining Township

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 August 1902 · page 16

The following official letter has been received by Mr. J. Estell, M.P., from the Minister for Mines and Agriculture:—"With reference to your personal interview with the Minister respecting the…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 September 1902 · page 2

The coal exported from Newcastle to places beyond the State during the week ended at noon on Saturday amounted to 45,127 tons, the total being made up as under:—Mauritius 700 tons, Peru 2,830 tons,…

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Gold, Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 September 1902 · page 6

The Engineering Magazine opens with an article of the Transvnal mines by Mr. John Hays Hammond, who, whatever his Jamisonian record may be, is one (says the Daily…

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