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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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HAVING been petitioned in the usual way to call a public meeting "to discuss the present unsatisfactory condition of the coal trade," the Mayor (Alderman W. B. Sharp) specifies…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The latest intelligence to hand from South Africa regarding the trouble in the Transvaal states that one of the persons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When the miners employed at the West Wallsend Colliery arrived on the pit-top yesterday morning they wore surprised to learn that there would be no work that day,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RULE 11. Whore safety lamps are required to be used, the position of the lamp stations for lighting or relighting the lamps shall not be in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THAT the progress of work at the dyke is the key to the activity of the miners is evidenced more than ever just now by the fact that several of the collieries have had to cease…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Seaham Colliery, which was hermetically sealed up on the 26th August last, in consequence of an outbreak of fire in a little flat to the rise of the main heading in the eastern…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE directors of the Seaham Colliery, who met in Sydney last evening, decided to reopen the mine at a date to be decided upon by Dr. Robertson, the general manager. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the miners was hold in North's Hall on Wednesday evening, Mr. R. Jackson in the chair, to deal with the colliery doctor question. There were about 60…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A WHEELER named Robert Brown, of Jesmond, was severely injured in the Lambton mine yesterday morning. It appears the lad was wheeling a skip, when some part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHERE any shaft, plane, or level is used for the purpose of communication from one part to another part of a mine, and persons are taken up or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FOLLOWING are the report and balance-sheet of the Hetton Goal Company, Limited, for the 21st half-year, which ended on December 31 last:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →William Rogers, charged with salting the Angipona Treasure mine, was to-day committed for trial. The shareholders were principally composed of members of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Cornish Copper-mining Company, Ltd., was held in the Chamber of Commerce last night. The chair was occupied by Mr. R…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Work at the Wallsend and Co-operative Collieries has been exceptionally brisk for some time, constant employment being the order of the day. Although the men are not…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE coal trade during the past fortnight has been fairly brisk, and yesterday's pay is, on the whole, satisfactory to all concerned. A few mines, it…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →As neither Parliament nor the Law Courts have been sitting, and there has been nothing to interest public attention save the cable's daily story of war's alarms and the intense…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A LITTLE lad of 11, named Walter Levick, has had a remarkable and unpleasant adventure, One night last month he was playing with some more lads in a field near the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT is anticipated that there will be a big mustering of people at the general meeting called for this evening to consider the present position of the coal mining industry. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EVERY fair-minded person in the community will be in sympathy with every reasonable and practical effort made to place the coal trade on a better…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →RULE 39. The person employed in a mine may from time to time appoint two of their number or any two persons not being mining engineers who…
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