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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
602 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 31
SIR,—In your issue of Saturday, I notice that your Greta correspondent says that Mr. Thomas is the most unassuming man in the district. He may be so, but my experience of him is to the contrary,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Tuesday night, shortly after eight o'clock, a fearful colliery explosion occurred at the Astley Deep Pit, Duckinfield, the owners of which are the Dunkirk Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE legal arguments and the evidence of mining engineers and others, prepared for submission to Mr. Rupert Kettle, were closed before the arbirator, after the second days'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Wednesday Mr. Rupert Kettle made his award upon the notice to the Somersetshire colliers for an aggregate reduction of 25 per cent. The conditions of arbitration were very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. HALLIDAY's brief visit to this district has thrown but little light upon the important question at issue between capital and labour, as to what is to be the rate of wages after the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[The following correspondence upon the above subject will doubtless be read with interest by our friends in the mining townships. ED. N.C] To Mr. Charles Harper.—Dear sir—I am…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The pit knocked off at eight o'clock yesterday morning for want of waggons, and at nine o'clock the white flag was hoisted, indicating no work for the back shift. A short while after, this flag was taken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE monthly meeting of No. 8 Greta Lodge of the Miners' Association was held on Tuesday, July 7th, at Greta. The minutes of the previous meeting were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE masters have not yet agreed to hold any conference with the men of the west of Scotland in regard to the adjustment of the wages. It is not expected that the masters…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE enforced idleness of 25,000 miners and ironworkers in Staffordshire continues. So vast a displacement of labour over so small an area as one of our Milland Countries is a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SPECIAL meeting of the Waratah miners was held on Thursday evening, July 9th, at Mr. David Jenkins', Lambton. In the absence of Mr. Peter Grant, chairman, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Will you allow me to ask two questions through you columns concerning the Public School. I don't think I can do any better than tell my story in my own way. Well, Sir, I had five,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Masters' Association in the Anthracite Valley, in the counties of Carmarthen and Glamorganshire have met under the presidency of their chairman, Mr. E. B. Hamnack…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Tuesday, at Saltburn by the Sea a special meeting of the Council of the Cleveland Ironstone Miners' Association was held in their offices, Ruby Street, for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Several fine vessels having recently been added to the costers, viz., the brigs Lallah Rookh and Vision, and schooners William and Escort, induces our publishing the list of vessels employed in the above…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The expert of coal for the week ending Friday July 10th amounted to 23296 tons, 6243 tons of which were shipped to Sydney, 3322 to Melbourne, 660 to Adelaide, 632 to the Clarence River, 967 to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—In your issue of Saturday, the 11th instant, a letter appears, signed by Mr. David Lewis, complaining of the teacher of the Public School, of this township. Now sir, this is not the first complaint…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Colliery Committee held their usual fortnightly meeting on Thursday night last. A complaint was laid by a miner that his skips had been stopped for lying idle a shift…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have much pleasure in directing attention to an advertisement in another column announcing the opening, on Monday next, of branches of the Australian Joint Stock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Colliery Committee held their usual fortnightly meeting at Mr. D. Jenkins's on Wednesday night last, 15th inst. Mr. P. Grant in the chair…
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