Wallsend Colliery
WORK at the Wallsend Colliery has been at a complete standstill for the past fortnight, and the next pay day will be a blank, so far as the minors are concerned. Considering the…
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Mining & the mines, 1896
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Mining
THE past week has not been an exceptionally busy one in the coal trade. Many of the collieries having cleared off the back work occasioned…
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WORK in the coal trade is just now unevenly distributed, for while the miners at Wallsend, Lambton, and one or two other collieries are experiencing the ills attaching to compulsory…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A London Coal Ring
A London correspondent says that the householders of the great metropolis are beginning to evince some anxiety respecting the prospective formation of a coal ring here…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Cargoes Commission. Sydney
IT is unlikely that the report of the Commission on fires in coal cargoes will be presented for some time. It is intended to call scientific evidence, and to make exhaustive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General News. a Great Coal Syndicate
It is stated by a correspondent that the scheme to amalgamate the businesses of eight large London firms engaged in the coal trade is so far completed that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident at Seaham Colliery
A PAINFUL accident happened on Saturday to a wheeler named Alex Cotter, of Maitland, employed at Seaham Colliery. Just as the wheelers were about to start after dinner…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Export of Gold
LONDON, Saturday.—The export of gold from London to New York still continues, and much uneasiness is felt in the city owing to the financial…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Western Australia. Mining Labour Conditions
LONDON, Friday.—The section of London Chamber of Commerce identified with Western Australia complains that the labour conditions in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Shipments
The coal shipments at the dyke for the week ended at 6 a.m. yesterday amounted to 42,175 tone, as compared with 43,470 tons for the corresponding period of lost season, and showing a decrease of 1295 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Coal Trade. Rates of Insurance
IN addition to the depression following on the recent strike, colliery proprietors and ship-owners, whose vessels trade to this port, have a new difficulty to face in the shape of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Position of Mining Shares. Serious Fall in Value
LONDON, Saturday.—South African and Australasian mining shares have depreciated in value in the aggregate to the extent of £120,000,000 during…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →English Coal in Russia
The British Consul at Odessa in his trade report for the year 1895, makes the following remarks as to the declining consumption of our coal in that district:—The British coal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Co-operative Miners. Appointment of Checkweighman
A MEETING of the Co-operative miners was held on Monday evening at Back Creek Lane. There was a large attendance. The object of the meeting was to take advantage of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sea Pit Miners
A MEETING of the above was held in the Merewether Hotel on Wednesday morning. There was a large attendance of members, Mr. Joseph…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gloucester River Gold Syndicate
A recent visitor to the neighbourhood of Gloucester reports that the mine belonging to the Gloucestor River gold-mining syndicate is looking splendid. The syndicate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shipment of Gold to America One Million Sent From London
LONDON, Wednesday.—Yesterday nearly £1,000,000 in gold was shipped from London to New York…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Iron Ores at Wallarah. An Application for Mining Land
MR. J. SOHOLEY, of Waratah, has applied to the Mines Department for permission to mine under roads, &c, under the Mining Act of 1874, section 28. The land applied for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Coolgardie Mining Syndicate An Equity Action. Sydney
IN the Equity Court to-day, a suit by A. G. Robertson, T. W. Phillips, and A. W. Pearse against D. F. Driscoll (deceased), D. F. J. Driscoll, T. Peters, A. R. C. Warren,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Westralian Goldfields. Letter From a Newcastle Resident. Advice to Miners
MR. WILLIAM BOWEN, a miner, late of Tighe's Hill, where his family now is, has written a rather lengthy letter to Alderman W. B. Sharp concerning the Westralian…
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