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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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A deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Greta (Alderman Pryor), and Messrs. T. Jones and J. Unsworth, yesterday had an interview with the chairman of the directors…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New Lambton Colliery has been idle seven weeks, and there is no prospect of work. A fortnight ago the miners accepted a reduction, but that has not brought…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—In renewing the sliding scale of wages in the Welsh collieries the owners offered the miners an advance of 7½ per cent, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOR the purpose of considering the advisability of amalgamating the miners of the Duckenfield, Back Creek, Seaham, and West Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →HAVING withdrawn their tools from the pits and refused to accept the terms offered by the firm of Messrs. J. and A. Brown, the miners of Duckenfield and Back Creek are now on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Saturday morning the secretary of the Glebe miners received an official document from the manager, setting forth that the company proposed to alter the prices and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Our Minmi correspondent wrote last night: —Nothing of importance occurred to-day. The Brown's Colliery did not work as was expected, only one minor and his boy putting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Friday a notice was posted at the Burwood Colliery intimating that the pit will be idle for three or four weeks to allow the management to make alterations to the patent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A MINER named George Hall, residing at Blue Gum Flat, Wallsend, sustained severe injuries to the legs and shoulders at the Wallsend Colliery on Monday. From what…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Of the Manila market Messrs. Warner, Blodgett, and Co. write on 22nd January:—Coal: Arrivals from Australia are, at this port, the Mauna Loa, Gowanbank, and Haddon Hall, andat Ilo Ilo the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Friday the manager of the Waratah Company informed the miners' officers that he wished to meet a deputation from the men. A meeting was held at the pit, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Glebe miners held a special meeting in Mr. Simpson's hall on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of dealing with the proposed reductions submitted by the manager, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE miners' delegate board held a special meeting in the Rouse Assembly-rooms yesterday, Mr. Adam Cook, the president, occupying the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A LARGE audience assembled in Sharp's Hall, West Wallsend, on Monday night to hear an address from D. Watkins, M.P., on "The Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE managers of the various coal mines in Victoria issued the following reports on Saturday:—JUMBUNNA, Gippsland.—No. 1 tunnel:…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The miners of the Dudley Colliery have notified the management that they are prepared to accept 2s 6d per ton if work is resumed. It appears, however, that an equity…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Greta correspondent wrote last night: —The colliery has been idle for the last four days, and it is not expected to resume again this week. It is reported that a large order…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OUR Barraba correspondent writes:—The contractors for the smelting of the ore at the Cornish Copper fine have so far been singularly unfortunate. Mr. Woollett who, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A DEPUTATION from the Glebe Miners' Lodge waited upon Mr. Stewart Keightley, general manager of the Newcastle Coal Company, yesterday, for the purpose of endeavouring…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE ceremony of turning the first sod of the railway from Jumbunna, Victoria, to the Outtrim Coal Mine, contains an element of interest for all in…
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