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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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THE first electric pumping engine introduced into the collieries of this district has just been completed at the Co-operative Colliery, under the supervision of Mr. Reginald W. Laidley,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IN the Assembly on Thursday morning after our report closed, Mr. Schey spoke at very great length on the question of the rescission of Mr. Haynes's motion concerning the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the past fortnight the Co-operative Colliery has only worked two days—one day in each week of the pay. The Wallsend Colliery has made a slight improvement, as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SPECIAL meeting of the above lodge was held last night for the purpose of receiving and dealing with minutes of the quarterly meeting of the delegate board hold on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Wednesday evening the monthly meeting of the Lambton miners was held in Baker's Hall, Mr. D. Mason in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE recommendation of the delegate board to hold another conference between the sub-committees of the masters' association and the board…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE members of the Sea Pit and Burwood Miners' Lodges held meetings last evening. The principal business done was the consideration of the minutes passed at the last…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir.—With the above heading I have to introduce to your readers a matter which I consider affects the vast majority. It is the "Australian Rights Purchase Bill," viz., a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY morning a young man named Joseph Wright, living at the Glebe, was badly hurt by a fall of stone whilst following his usual employment as a miner in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Friday.—The Standard to-day states that 100,000 sovereigns have been withdrawn from the bank for shipment to Sydney, and that it is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE management of the Stockton Colliery intend to follow the example of several other mining companies and reduce the number of miners in their employ. On Saturday a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT seems that the management of the Greta Colliery have decided to supply the 90 tons of coal required from the full skips standing about the mine, as some of the wheelers are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Friday evening a special meeting of the Greta miners was held in Page's Hall, Mr. W. Jackson in the chair. As the secretary had not brought…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The usual monthly meeting of the above miners was hold in the hall of the Wallsend School of Arts on Friday evening, Mr. R. Punton in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A SPECIAL meeting of the members of the above lodge was held at the Albert Victor Hotel on Friday afternoon. Mr. Joseph Manning presided…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday.—Dynamite has been discovered in the houses of free labourers at St. Helens, where the coal-miners are on strike. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE remarks made by Mr. CURLEY, general secretary of the Miners' Association, at a social gathering which followed the Eight Hours'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE statement made by Mr. W. ROYLE in our issue of Saturday regarding the effect which the passing of the Australian Rights Purchase Bill will have on gas-stokers,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ARRANGEMENTS have been made by the railway Commissioners to receive the deputation respecting the haulage rates for cool from the western collieries on Monday next…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SPECIAL meeting of the South Waratah miners was held yesterday morning, near Adamstown, for the purpose of dealing with the delegates' report, and the 11 days' notice…
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