Coal Shipping Facilities
The progress of the port can be fairly judged by a comparison of the present day methods of loading coal with those of by-gone times. In the earliest days of the port…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1897
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Mining Disasters
Unfortunately the history of mining in the Newcastle district has not been free from disaster, and many a good man has lost his life, or has been cruelly maimed whilst…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Procuring and Loading Coal
At this time the system of procuring and loading the coal was most primitive. The settlement consisted of a small party of soldiers under a corporal and twelve…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Increase of the Coal Trade
Another curious advertisement refers to the Lord Liverpool, cutter, in which shippers of cargo are notified that owing to the completion of the bridge over Wallis'…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A Government Colliery Inspector. Mr. William Humble, F.G.S.
SINCE his appointment, over seven years ago, as one of the Government inspectors of collieries, Mr. Humble has shown much ability and force of character. He is regarded by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Earp, Gillam and Co., Merchants (Import & Export), Colliery Proprietors, Shipping Charterers and Agents
ONE of the best-known commercial houses in the city to-day is that of Messrs. Earp, Gillam and Co., whose spacious and handsome business premises occupy a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sea Pit Miners
THE monthly meeting of the above miners took place in Blackburn's hotel on Thursday evening. The attendance was very small; Mr. Jos Halliday in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The British Columbia Gold Rush
An English contemporary holds that there can be no doubt that the gold find at Klondike, in British Columbia, has turned out, allowing for all exaggeration, marvellously…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Growth of Mining Companies
The Mining Manual for 1897 tells the history of 3261 concerns, some 1544 pages being devoted to the subject. There are 163 pagefuls of mining directors, and the list of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Klondyke Goldfields.—a Warning
A CORRESPONDENT who has recently returned from Klondike writes to a Birmingham paper warning persons against going there. After describing the immense difficulties of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Mining by Machinery
The use of machines in coal mines in America is growing every day, we are told, and that the miners in certain localities must prepare to give way to modern…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Labour Troubles in England. a Miners' Ballot
LONDON, Friday.—Owing to the proposal of the employers to restrict the output, delegates representing 90,000 colliers in South Wales and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Shipments
The coal shipments at the dyke for the week ended at 6 a.m. yesterday amounted to 55, 188 tons, as against 51,283 tons for the corresponding period of last year, showing an increase of 3905 tons on last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chief Inspector of Collieries. Visit to Newcastle
Mr. A. A. ARKINSON, the recently-appointed Chief Inspector of Collieries, arrived in Newcastle by train from Sydney yesterday, being met at the station by Mr. John Dixon,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Californian Coal Markets
MR. R. B. WALLACK has received advices from San Francisco, of which the following is an extract:—"There is little doing hero at the present time in coal. Now, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Labour Troubles. Welsh Miners' Ballot
LONDON, Sunday.—Owing to the proposal of the employers to restrict the output delegates representing 90,000 colliers in South Wales and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General News. Rich Gold Discoveries in Siberia
A Russian correspondent writes to a London contemporary:—The Ochotsk-Kamschatka Mining Expedition, which has been fitted out by the Russian Government for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hetton Colliery. Inspection of Old Workings
"We, the undersigned, certify that we, on 1st and 2nd September, 1897, (accompanied by the manager, Mr. A. Mathieson) made a careful and minute…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →San Francisco Coal Market
J. W. Harrison's coal circular contains the following:— Since the Moana left the following vessels have arrived from Australia, viz.: M'Near 1825 tons, Stjorn 2558 tons, Cromdale 2891 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Mining Disaster. Forty Men Killed
LONDON, Monday.—Forty miners were killed to-day by an accident in the Champion Reef gold mine, Madras, India…
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