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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
972 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 49
The wheelers at the B pit, Newcastle Colliery, decided not to go to work yesterday morning until one of their number was reinstated. From information received it appears…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Miners' Federation of Great Britain began its annual conference at Leicester last month. The president (Mr. Pickard, M.P.), delivered an address, in which he reviewed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.—The Mangana Gold Reefs Mining Company, Tasmania, has been formed with a capital of £120,000, the whole of which is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Most of the collieries have put in good time for the pay ending to-day, but unfortunately the pays will not be equivalent to the labour performed. A miner speaking on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When a strike takes place at a colliery a policeman is brought on the scene with as little delay as possible, and one may easily be led to the conclusion that they are officers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE monthly meeting of the above miners was held in the hall of the School of Arte last night, Mr. William Bower in the chair. CORRESPONDENCE…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the past week ending yesterday the fund has been augmented by the following donations:—From Mr. Robert Breckenridge, on behalf of himself and others and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. J. Samuel, M.P. for Stockton-on-Tees, recently introduced into the House of Commons a bill requiring persons in charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ABOUT 70 men arrived from the south last night by the steamer Aramae en routo to New Guinea. There are over 100 men here bound for New Guinea, most of whom are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE strike of wheelers at the Newcastle Company's B Pit appears to be at an end, and the termination is anything but satisfactory to the strikers. The cause of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A rich yield of gold has been obtained at Surface Hill, Carrisbrooke, by two prospectors. Five tons of atone gave 75oz of gold. THE MASTER OF THE COUNTY OF ANTRIM…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The coal shipment at the dyke for the week ended at 6 a.m. yesterday amounted to 63,612 tons, being an increase of 12,204 tons on the shipments of the corresponding week of last year, when 51,408 tons were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WRITING from Kanowoa, Western Australia, under date 6th February, Thomas Bowen, a former well-known resident of Tighe's Hill, explains, in a lengthy letter to Alderman W…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE usual monthly meeting of the Glebe Minors was held in Simpson's Hall on Monday evening. Mr. M. Wilbraham presided. A communication was received from Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In a paper read lately by Mr. Bennett H. Brough, Assoc. R.S.M., at a meeting of the London Society of Arts, on "Mining at Great Depths," he stated that the Red…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—The Talunga Goldfields Developing Company has been floated. The capital is fixed at £350,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday.—There are 82 applications for the position of Inspector of Coal Mines in New South Wales. Sir Saul Samuel, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE employees at the Duckenfield and Back Creek Collieries have the good fortune to lift a full fortnight's wages for the pay to be drawn next Friday (11 days)…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A MEETING of the executive committee was held last night in St. Paul's Mission Hall. There were present: Alderman Rees (chairman) presiding, and Messrs. Alderman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE result of the ballot for the election of check veighmen is as follows :—James Milburn, 262; George Jobling, 263; Thomas Sanders, 232; Josiah Cooking, 62—the…
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