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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
1,038 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 43 of 52
THE Speaker took the chair at the usual hour. Mr. CRICK made the statement reported elsewhere…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Saturday, August 24th, a fire was discovered in the Seaham Colliery, and in consequence some 240 men and boys were thrown out of employment. On the advice of Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A PAPER dealing with the spontaneous combustion of coal cargoes, which was recently read before the Institution of German Engineers by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE rush of shipping to the port, and the consequent increase in the output of coal which specially marked the last half of 1866, continued during…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Lake View crushing yielded [?]8loz of smelted gold from 195 tons of ore. The Boulder Monument Mine, to the west of the Leviathan Battery, has been sold for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As will be seen by a report from our Miami correspondent the firm of Messrs. J. and A. Brown have informed their miners that to maintain their trade they find it necessary to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A preliminary meeting of the Co-operative Miners was hold in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute on Thursday evening, for the purpose of taking steps towards the formation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT would appear as if some colliery proprietors are not satisfied with the present low rate of wages in the district, and must needs enforce further…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A deputation of residents of Korumburra waited on the Premier to-day to protest against the Coal Creek Company being passed over in the coal tenders; but the Premier…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the Legislative Assembly on Thursday night the House resolved itself into committee of the whole to consider the Mining on Private Property Act Amendment Bill in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AGAIN the unwelcome sound is heard throughout the district of demands for reductions of the miners' earnings. For years past similar requests have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The coal tonnage listed for San Francisco for August last was as follows:—From Swansea, 128,000 tons; from Newcastle (N.S.W.), 160,000 tons. "These amounts," says an American coal report,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FROM Pittston to Northumberland the bed of the river is lined with coal, ranging from 3ft to 8ft, thick, under an average depth of water of about 8ft. This coal is made up chiefly of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—Your article of this morning is a reasonable one but you underrate the importance of these inroads on the hawing rate now being made by one or two of the colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Railway Commissioners have officially intimated to the Out[?]rim, Korumburra, and Jumbunna companies that their tenders for coal will only be accepted if they agree to a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Waratah Company in August, 1870, gave 32 of their miners notice of dismissal, and next day the 170 other men in the colliery handed in their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Outtrim, Jumbunna, and Korumburra Coal Companies have agreed to the minimum wage of 7s 6d for miners. Mr. R. B Stamp, manager of the Outtrim Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Affairs regarding the impending reduction at Brown's collieries have as yet not been much advanced At a mooting held on Monday night the only stop taken was to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE condition of the coal trade, unsatisfactory though it has been for a considerable time past, threatens to become worse. The keen competition…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE matter of Abbott and others against the Dudley Coal Company was before the Chief Judge in Equity to-day on a motion by the plaintiffs for a final foreclosure…
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