The Collieries. Hard Times
SEVERAL collieries continue to work very slackly, end there is apparently little prospect of an improvement. Complaints are heard on all sides about the bad times, and funds…
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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SEVERAL collieries continue to work very slackly, end there is apparently little prospect of an improvement. Complaints are heard on all sides about the bad times, and funds…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SPECIAL meeting of the above lodge was held on Thursday night, Mr. W. M'Donald, local chairman, presiding. The purport of the meeting was to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Brucker's award in the dispute with regard to the application of the refuse scale to the coal under the band of jerry in the Wallsend mine is as follows :—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE usual monthly meeting of miners was held on Thursday evening in Mr. Thos, Sharp's Hall, Minmi, Mr. F. Wright presiding There was only a moderate attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Government has decided to take over the construction of the railway line to the Coal Greek Mining Company's place, for the purpose of cesisting the coal industry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Referring to the article contained in yours of the 25th instant under the heading, of "The Collieries," I would point out to you…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Saturday.—A letter from an Australian correspondent, condemning the proposed Newcastle Coal Trust, is published by the Economist. The writer, who dates…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY a miner named Thomas Hall[?] residing at Adamstown, died very suddenly while at work in South Waratah pit. Hale and his mate, Thomas Beddow, had just…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEGOTIATIONS for the formation of a Newcastle Coal Trust have advanced another stage. This afternoon when the sub-committee of colliery proprietors, appointed at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THAT the importance and necessity of the introduction of a bill to give the right to mine upon private property are recognised by the Government is shown by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE subject of coal-mining has been exercising the minds of the Victorians for many years past. It seemed a pity that a little country endowed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE quarterly meeting of the above miners was held on Monday night in Mr. Baker's hall; Mr. M. Gray in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE 11th half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Young Wallsend Coal Company took place at the office, Scott-street, yesterday afternoon. Mr. J. S. Rodgers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was held in the hall of the Wallsend School of Arts on Tuesday morning at 11 a m There was a large attendance, Mr. R. Punton in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WITH regard to the meeting held on Monday with reference to the coal trust, at which the scheme for the amalgamation of the collieries was considered, the representatives of two of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILLIAM CAMPBELL, a youth, was charged that he, being hanger on at the South Wallsend Colliery, Cardiff, did on April 29th neglect to carry out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE usual monthly meeting of the above lodge was held at Cox's Hotel, Wickham, on Tuesday evening last; Mr. R. Hall in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A LECTURE on Victoria's Coal Resources was delivered by Mr. James Stirling, the assistant Government geologist, in the supper-room of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ALTHOUGH everything is so dull in commercial circles throughout this city the railway authorities report a slight improvement in haulage operations at the dyke. Last week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No. 1 SPLIT.—Aired from No. 3 air shaft and main tunnel. The current at intake was 6855ft, the current at No. 11 bord was 8085ft, at 21 bord was…
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