Dudley Colliery. Miners Receive Notice
THE miners employed at Dudley Colliery received notice yesterday that 14 days from Monday, 22nd instant, their services will not be required. The men were in no way…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1897
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Wallsend Miners
A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was held on Friday evening in the lower hall of the School of Arts. Mr. A. Cook in the chair in the absence of Mr. Bower…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accident at Seaham Colliery
IT was only on Wednesday that an accident of a painful character occurred at the above colliery to John Cotter, who had one of his eyes completely destroyed whilst in the act of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sea Pit Miners
THE monthly meeting of the above miners' lodge took place on Thursday evening in Blackburn's Hotel, Merewether, and was very poorly attended. Mr. Jos. Halliday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Copper Mining
THE Cornish Copper Company some few months ago decided upon the erection of a water jacket, furnace. The first work in connection therewith was the conservation of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Summons Cases. Some Stray Coal
Special-constable John Hayes proceeded against John Cavanagh for the larceny of coal valued at Is, the property of the A.A. Go, Defendant pleaded guilty, bat remarked…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →West Australia. Kalgoorlie, Friday. Great Boulder Mine
A new strike has been made at the south end of the Great Boulder mine at the 300ft level, which is worth loz per ton for a width of 6ft from the eastern wall. The lode is not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Guinea News. Little Gold; Much Fever. Cooktown
H.M.S. WALLAROO arrived from New Guinea and reports bad weather. At Samarai met the French gunboat Euro. Letters received from New Guinea report the place is in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Mining Accident. a Long Tramp Grafton
A TERRRIBLE occurred at the Mount Lea mine, on the Manning River, yesterday afternoon. Thomas Gibbons, a miner, fired a charge of three shots in the mine, two of which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Artificial Coal
The production of coal from peat is becoming quite an industry in Norway, and there are indications of its development to the extent of becoming a very important…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dudley Colliery. a Reduction Proposed
As stated in Saturday's issue the Dudley miners have received notice, dating from to-day, that their services will no longer be required at the expiration of 14 days. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Return of Miners. 150,000 Dollars Worth of Golddust
LONDON, Saturday.—Several miners from the new goldfields at Yukon have arrived at Victoria with 150,000 dollars worth of golddust…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Shipments
The coal shipments at the Government cranes for the week ended at 6 a.m. yesterday amounted to 50,163 tons, as against 55,106 tons for the cooresponding period of last year. The coke shipments for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dudley Colliery. The Proposed Reduced Rates
A special meeting of Dudley miners was held yesterday morning at the piggery, midway between Adamstown sad Charlestown, to consider the proposal of the company to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident at W. and B I. Colliery
Shortly after 10 o'clock on Sunday night a shiftman named Thomas Look, employed at the Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery, met with a very painful accident. Look had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Risks. Accident at the Newcastle Company's "B" Pit
THOMAS GRAY, a miner residing at Adamstown, was injured yesterday by a fall of coal in the Newcastle Company's B Pit. He was holing at the time, when a quantity of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Yukon Goldfields
SAN FRANCISCO accounts of the Yukon goldfields state that some women accompanied their husbands to the new El Dorado and assisted the men in making their pile. There…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dudley Colliery. Distress Prevalent
THERE is little new to state respecting the Dudley Colliery. The miners held a meeting to-day and formally received the report of the deputation that waited on the manager…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Situation
DURING the last few weeks the position of many of our local miners has become worse instead of better. Slackening of work has led to a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Trade. Work at the Pits
THE scarcity of shipping is having a prejudicial effect on the work at the pits, especially at those which chiefly supply the foreign markets; and, at the present time, there are…
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