Stockton. the Colliery Disaster Fund
The advertisement of receipts to this fund appeared in Saturday's Newcastle Herald, and showed the total to date £933 9s 2d. This represents…
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Mining & the mines, 1897
972 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 49
Stockton Colliery
AT a meeting of the Stockton miners, held on the 27th January, the report of the check-inspectors, Messrs. John Houston and Joseph M'Allister, on…
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The coal shipments at the dyke for the week ended at 6 a.m. yesterday amounted to 40,606 tons, as against 46,705 tons for the corresponding period of last year, and showing a decrease on the past week's…
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Yesterday there name to hand from the Mayor of Berry, headed by himself, a subscription list conveying to the fund donations from that municipality amounting to £1 12s…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →General News. Explosion in a Coal Bunker
The fatal accident on board the mail steamer Oruba manifests the dangers of gases escaping from coal. An engineer named Robert Deane went into one of the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Students and Their Appliances
FOR a long time past the mining students at the Technological Institute in this city have laboured under the lack of suitable appliances for the work in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland District. Miners' Risks
BETWEEN 9 and 10 o'clock on Wednesday a miner named Melville Winden sustained a painful but not dangerous injury at the East Greta Colliery. He was working on the coal,…
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It was found, immediately on the discovery of the robbery of the 5000 sovereigns from the Oceana, that a steward named George Armstrong was missing. It was not very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Trade. Good Outlook for Miners
FOR the fortnight ending to-day the pits of the district, excepting Greta, have all worked well, and it will be some satisfaction to the miners to know that this activity will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Examinations Under the New Coal Mines Act. The Names of the Successful Students
OF the 36 candidates who presented themselves for examination for certificates of competency under the new Coal Mires Regulation Act, at the Technical College last week,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Singapore Coal Market
One of the principal houses has received from a Singapore firm the following communication, dated 1st ult.:—"We regret to say that there is but little or no demand for Australian coal, and demand for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Foreign Coal in Great Britain
The "Iron and Steel Trades Journal" calls attention to the singular fact that, while we are exporting millions of tons of coal, we are also importing some thousands…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pacific Co-operative Coal Co Half-yearly Meeting
AT the half-yearly meeting of the Pacific Cooperative Steam Coal Company, held at Teralba on Thursday, Mr. E. P Simpson, one of the directors, who presided, stated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dudley Miners
A MEETING of Dudley miners was held at Adamstown on Saturday night for the purpose of taking stops to induce the Railway Commissioners to run a workmen's train to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Combustion of Coal
The spontaneous combustion of coal on shipboard is attributed by Emanuel Stauber, of Hamburg, to a combination of causes, including the admixture of air and moisture…
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LONDON, Friday.—The Mount Catherine Gold-mining Company, Yerilla, which was formed with a capital of £300,000, and issued shares to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Australia. Chamber of Mines for London
LONDON, Friday.—The Western Australian Chamber of Mines has been formed in London with the object of publishing results of crushings and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Australia. Kalgoorlie, Sunday. Gold Returns
The gold produce in the Kalgoorlie district last month was 19,000oz, or more than half the total yield of the colony. BURGLARS AT WORK…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Shipments
The total amount of coal shipped at the dyke for the week ended at 6 a.m. yesterday was 49,374 tons, as against 56,779 tons for the corresponding period of last year, and showing a decrease of 7405 tons on…
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Yesterday there was received from the Black Ball Colliery, Greymouth, New Zealand, through Mr. Joseph Scott, once surveyor at the Stockton Colliery, now manager…
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