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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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THE aggregate meeting of the miners of the district which was to have been held yesterday at Downie's paddock, about two miles out to Plattsburg, in the direction of Minmi,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—The Muldhouseburn Colliery at Muirkirk, in Ayrshire, Scotland, was suddenly flooded. Sixteen miners were rescued, after…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The coal shipments at the Government cranes for the week ending yesterday at 6 a.m. amounted to 37,044 tons, as compared with 52,685 tons for the corresponding period of last year. The coke…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following message has just been received by the Barraba Gold and Silver Fields Exploration, Limited, from their assistant manager at Crow Mountain, dated March…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Early yesterday morning two men named Gillot Ardron and John Doohan were very saverely but fortunately not dangerously scalded about the legs by the bursting of a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At a meeting of the City Council this afternoon an interesting discussion took place on the recommendation of the public works committee that the tender of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Minister for Mines, Mr. Sydney Smith, stated to the deputation of colliery proprietors which waited upon him on Friday last that he had asked the Chief Inspector, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—I read in the Newcastle Herald of Friday, March 4th, that a large colliery proprietor had been interviewed and questioned on the various difficulties that were to arise…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—The coal proprietors are in a state of alarm, because the legislators of this colony have decided that a coal miner ought to be paid by just weight. It's strange that the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MR. A. MATHIESON, the manager of the Hetton Colliery, is now at Wollongong, having journeyed thither to meet Mr. M'Cabe, a southern district manager, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—Allow me a few lines on the coal-weighing question. In the remarks made by Mr. Gregson to the Minister he stated that there would be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—Having noticed that Mr. Kerr still persists in bringing the late Mr. Mitchell forward as a means to bolster up the policy of Protection, I herewith…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A LITHGOW manager, recently interviewed by a local correspondent, spoke on the coal-weighing question as follows:—"In thin district, in my opinion, the greatest drawback…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT a special meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation, presided over by Mr. J. Estell, at the Trades Ball yesterday, the situation of the Waratah…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT about noon yesterday an elderly man named Thomas Medlicott, who resides with his family at Railway street, Merewether, met with a rather serious accident by a fall…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT a recent meeting of the Melbourne City Council a long discussion took place on the recommendation of the works committee that the tender of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Further warlike preparations are being made by the United States Government in view of the danger of the outbreak of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The operations in connection with the sinking of the shaft at the Church Pit, Wallsend, are being continued without intermission day and night, with the result that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE regular monthly meeting of this lodge was held last night, Mr. W. Eagle, chairman, presiding. The motion, of which notice was given at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I note by yours of the 12th instant that "Nemo" is endeavouring by misconstruction to place some of the figures given by me on the above subject in a ridiculous…
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