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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
1,413 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 63 of 71
A MEETING of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the firing of coal cargoes, and consisting of Professor Threlfall and Mr. Pittman, Government Geologist, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WORK was started at this colliery yesterday after an idleness lasting nearly three Weeks, and, fortunately, there seems a good prospect of it continuing for some time. It is needed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE predictions of a slack time in October are being sadly realised by the miners of the district, who are now feeling keenly the effects of the strike…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE eleventh ordinary meeting of the share-holders in the East Greta Coal-mining Company, Limited, was held at the offices of Messrs. Earp, Gilam, and Co. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is estimated that the annual coal consumption of Victoria is 800,000 tons, that 200,000 tons of coal are now won from the Gippsland mines, thus leaving 600,000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A MINER named Dennis Hughes, 21 years of ago, met with rather a painful accident whilst at work at the Stockton Colliery yesterday. He was engaged filling a skip at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Saturday the reception committee, comprising Mr. A. Cook (Mayor of Plattsburg), Mr. A. Drummond (Mayor of Wallsend), Messrs. Watkins and Edden (Ms.P.), Drs. J…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The coal shipments at the dyke for the week ended at 6 a.m. yesterday amounted to 37,006 tons, as compared with 37,210 tons for the corresponding week of last year, and showing a decrease of 206 tons on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The deputation which waited on the Water and Sewerage Board yesterday in connection with the work of opening and closing the trenches for the laying of the water-main…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Waratah Coal Company, Limited, was held to-day at the company's office. Mr. W. C. Willis (chairman)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT a meeting of the Hetton miners, held at the Albion Hotel, Wickham, last evening, new office-bearers were in control. The presidential chair was occupied by Mr. John…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LAST week was a particularly dull one in the coal trade, and with few exceptions the miners are working badly this week. The next fortnightly pay will therefore be the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOLLOWING the resolution passed a month or so ago by the Hetton miners, Mr. James Curley has submitted to the district lodges a code of amendments to the rules of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE ballot for the election of checkweighman at the Co-operative Colliery under the new Coalfields Regulation Act took place yesterday, the candidates being Mr. John Moss,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two processes have recently been described by which electricity can be produced direct from combustion of coal. One process is that of Dr. W. W. Jacques, of New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT is an unpalatable fact (says a London contemporary) which English coal owners have perforce to swallow, that in the Eastern seas their supplies of fuel are being driven out by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The Victorian Gold Estate Company is being formed with a capital of £350,000, of which £100,000 is to be the working…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A 6d dividend was declared to-day at the half-yearly meeting of the Victory United Gold-mine. FATAL ACCIDENT…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held on Friday evening, Mr. W Bower in the chair. The CHAIRMAN reported the result of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DURING was the past few weeks the miners employed at some of the collieries have had much slack time. The late strike is not alone the cause of the…
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