The Weather and Coal Trade
The coal trade is seriously hampered in consequence of the rough sea running during the last few days. Four steam colliers were lying in the offing at Clifton…
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Mining & the mines, 1901
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Colliery Screenings
The Lithgow coal trade during the week has not been so brisk as previously, but the falling off is expected to be only temporary…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A Dangerous Practice. Logs Placed Upon a Coal Company's Line. Reward Offered
What appears to be a dastardly outrage was attempted on the Mount Pleasant Coal Company s railway line yesterday morning when several stout logs were discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Street Lamp Difficulty. Acetylene v. Coal Gas. Street Gas Lamps to Be Shut Off. Borough Gas Works Suggested Why Not the Electric Light?
At the council meeting on Friday evening the lighting committee reported that since last meeting of council they held a meeting to consider the street-lighting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Dangerous Practice. [?]Ogs Placed Upon a Coal Company's Line
What appears to be a d[?]strally out-page was attempted on the Mount Pleasant Coal Company's railway line on Monday morning when several stout…
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The total quantity of coal exported in New South Wales during the first quarter of this year was 830,351 valued at £399,264…
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Shipments from the port of Wollongong for the month of April were:—Coal: From the jotties, 51,004 tons; Belmore Basin, 16,581 tons, 67,585 tons. Coke:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Illawarra Miners
There was a substantial majority with or without Mt. Kembla for the proposition to select a political labor league candidate to contest the State election…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Coal Output of Scotland
The duration of the Scotch output was computed in 1871 as likely to last 820 years as the assumption that the annual output would not [?] 12,000,000 tins…
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The wheelers at the West Collie coal mine, W.A., recently struck for an increase of wages from 10s per day to 11s. The miners, however, threatened to do…
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South Clifton has been asking for a heights scale of hewing rate, which would amount to an increase for seam under five feet; at present only one rate…
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The South Bulli colliery was formally handed over by Mr. J. C. Jones on Saturday afternoon last to Mr. G. Cater as representative of the new proprietors, the…
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J. Thompson applies for 640 acres, county St. Vincent, parish Tranjura, reserve 30,605, to mine For coal and shale…
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The exports of Bengal coal from Calcutta during the past year totalled 1,775,000 tons, of which 1,320,000 went to Indian ports, this being an…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Illawarra Miners
To the requestor of the general secretary, Mr. D. Ritchie, for intervention of joint committee in the deficiency places dispute at Bulli, the Colliery Owners'…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Romance of a Gold Mine
Near Come, a mining town in Colorado, is a mountain take— smart but deep body of water, clear and cold, which seems to be in the centre of an ancient volcano, Several…
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The coal output of the Collie (W.A.) mines for April totalled 10,050 tons, as compared with 9989 tons for March. The conditions of the Californian coal…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Coal and Coke Shipments
The following were the shipments of coal and coke from the Port of Wollongong for the mouth of May, 1901:—Coal: From the jetties, 62,772 tons;…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A Popular Colliery Manager. Banquet to Mr. J. C Jones. Presented with a Gold Watch. From Miners and Friends
On Saturday evening, at the Bellambi Music Hall, Mr, J. C. Jones, who has been manager of the South Bulli colliery for the past ten years, and is now leaving to take…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Mining Trouble
The miners' district officers met Mr. Johnson, manager Bulli colliery, on Wednesday evening last with reference to the deficient headings, and after considerable…
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