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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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THE coal question continues to agitate the public mind in Victoria, and the two morning papers of Melbourne print lengthy letters and articles on the prices of Newcastle coal as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT is said that the Seaham Colliery is to be shut down for an indefinite period, and that all hands from the manager to the water balers have accordingly received their notice…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The adjourned meeting of the employees of the Greta Colliery was held in North's Hall on Monday evening, Mr. Jackson presiding, and the hall…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The crushings at Gympie for May are—8389 tons stone for 7344oz gold. The dividends amounted to £10,200; the calls to £10.990. The principal dividend was that of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting of the Adelaide shareholders in the Central Broken Hill Mine was held this afternoon, when it was determined, on the recommendation of Mr. Dodds, the chairman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Imported Stock Act Amendment Bill was read a second time and passed through committee. The Jerilderie-Berrigan Railway Bill was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DR. ROBINSON mot a deputation of the Waratah miners on Wednesday and discussed the yardage question. Dr. Robinson informed the miners' representatives that he could not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The World's Mines Congress, now sitting in Paris, has approved a scheme for limiting the output of coal by working four or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY at Back Greek No. 2 tunnel an aged man named James Brown met with a serious accident. Whilst holing for a centre shot in the bord a lamp of kerosene fell from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The Investors' Review states that within the past 14 months no fewer than 75 West Australian mining companies…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brown coal has been struck in an artesian bore near Kopperamanua, about 200 miles north of the Leigh's Creek coal mine. Two bands of coal were struck, the first being at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A CABLE from London states that at the international congress of miners, now being held at Paris, a scheme for limiting the world's output of coal was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE production of coal in the United States last year was 153,000,000 tons in round figures. The largest single source of American coal supply is the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →PARIS, Friday.—The International Miners' Conference has resolved by 872,000 to 96,000 in favour of a legal eight hours day for surface workers as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEGOTIATION are proceeding between the New Lambton Company and the miners with a view to resuming work. The company has asked the men to accept the 4ft 6in minimum…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE increase in the world's output gold last year was very large, and now that the figures are available the subject affordsinteresting food for study. The returns are as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE statements made in the Legislative Assembly of Victoria last week, to the effect that men were being employed unloading coal on the railways…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YESTERDAY morning the New Lambton miners held a meeting to deal with the reductions proposed by the company The prices were discussed at length, but nothing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN Equity to-day, before Judge Owen, Mr. Gregory Walker, for the Perpetual Trustee Company, stated that the matter of that Company v. the Northern Coal Company had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE subject of the rating of property for municipal purposes brings around annually its usual quota of discussion and difference of opinion. In a…
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