The Klondyke Goldfield. Miners Leaving Dawson City
LONDON, Friday.—News has reached Ottawa, Canada, to the effect that 2000 miners and others have left Dawson City, the centre of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1897
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W. and B.i. Colliery Surfacemen's Fund
THE annual meeting of the Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery Surface and Shiftmen's Accident and Yearly Fund took place at Butler's Albion Hall. Wickham, on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →General News. China As a Gold Country
At a moment when the Great European Powers are striving to partition the Chinese Empire among them, and as the incalculably rich mineral resources of the country lie in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →History of Newcastle and the Northern District. (All Rights Reserved) Number Xil. Interesting Accounts of the Coal Trade in 1803
ALTHOUGH Governor King withdrew the military poet from Newcastle in 1802, he did not object to Messrs. Underwood, Palmer, Raby, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Burwood Colliery
THE dispute between the colliery manager and miners, at Burwood, over the cavilling which was fully explained in Monday's Newcastle Herald was amicably arranged…
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THE miners' pay sheets for the fortnight ended last Friday are not over cheering. It is to be hoped that the new year will see a return to prosperity at the pits. A slight…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Shipments
Owing to the Christmas holidays intervening;, the coal shipments at the dyke show a considerable decrease For the week ended at 6 am. on Christmas Day 31,039 tons of coal and 49 tons of coke were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Elemore Vale Colliery
THERE appears to be more trouble brewing in connection with the Elemore Veale Colliery. At this colliery, which is near the Wallsend Coal Company's workshops, Pittown, the…
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LONDON, Tuesday—It is stated that Sir, William Maegregor, Governor of British New Guinea, will be appointed Governor of the Gold Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Robberies on Shipboard
A CASE recently decided in the British Admiralty Court regarding the liability of the North German Lloyd's Company for a quantity of gold coin…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Stockton Colliery. Rumoured Escape of Noxious Gas. Official Explanations
A RUMOUR became current yesterday that the Stockton Colliery had become unfit to work in on Friday last by reason of the escape of nexious gases from the old workings, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stockton. the Colliery Air-door Mystery
Mr. George Coulson, one of the local inspectors of the colliery, desires to state, with regard to the paragraph concerning this matter in our yesterday's issue, in which it…
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