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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1898

939 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 47

Flow of Gold to the Bank of England

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 July 1898 · page 12

The "Financial Times" wonders how many people realise the extraordinary significance of the recent influx of gold to the Bank of England…

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The Coal Trade Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 July 1898 · page 4

The results of Saturday's conference will be hailed with satisfaction throughout this great coal-mining centre. For a long time past the price…

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The Dudley Colliery. Recovery of George Cook's Body

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 July 1898 · page 5

The work of exploring the Dudley Colliery was continued during the whole of last week, under the supervision of Mr. W. Turnball, the colliery manager for the A.A. Company…

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The Mining Conference. Important Decision Arrived At. the Price of Coal to Be Increased to 8s. a Uniform Hewing Rate Insisted Upon. the Proprietors Consent to a General Agreement

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 July 1898 · page 4

The adjourned conference between colliery proprietors and representatives of the miners' convened by Mr. Jas. Curley, for the purpose, chiefly,…

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The Burwood Colliery Lease. Action against the Scottish Australian Mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1898 · page 5

An action which will prove of interest to those engaged in the coal-mining industry will come on for hearing at the Newcastle Court in the course of a couple of…

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Coal Shipments

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1898 · page 4

The coal shipment at the Government cranes for the week ending yesterday amounted to 50,016 tons as compared with 80,907 tons for the corresponding period of last year, and showing an increase of 18,109,…

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The Southern Miners. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1898 · page 5

The Southern Miners' Association has in connection with the recent conference, forwarded the following circular letter to the miners' lodges:—"The miners' delegates, in…

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Greta. the Mining Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1898 · page 6

The all-prevailing topic discussed here this morning is upon the mining conference, and much disappointment is expressed at the condition inserted…

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Accident at Seaham Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 July 1898 · page 4

A nasty accident happened to a youth named William Pease on Monday morning, employed at Seaham Colliery, West Wallsend as a wheeler. It appears young Pease…

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The Welsh Coal Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 July 1898 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The South Wales colliery owners have conditionally offered the men an advance of 5 per cent. upon the current rate of…

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Catherine Hill Bay. Work at the Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 July 1898 · page 7

Work has been constant at the mine for some weeks past. During this month up to date there has been an average of a boat a day loaded at the…

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The Mining Situation. a Better Feeling in the District

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 July 1898 · page 5

The miners employed at the collieries paying the standard hewing rates have been given much hope of the general conditions of the trade being improved upon…

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Stockton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1898 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the above lodge was held in the Temperance Hall last night Mr. W. Eagles, chairman, presided. There was a…

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Colliery Managers' Certificates. Examinations at the Technical College

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1898 · page 5

Examinations for 1st and 2nd class certificates of competency as colliery managers, under the Coal Mines Regulation Act of 1896, were commenced yesterday morning at…

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The Colliery Employees' Federation. Meeting of the Delegate Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 July 1898 · page 5

The quarterly meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held at the Trades Hall, Hunter-street West, yesterday. Mr. John Estell, the…

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State-owned Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1898 · page 6

The Prussian Government, according to a recent statement, owns and works 17 collieries, eight lignite mines, 14 iron mines; five…

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Burwood Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1898 · page 6

The Burwood miners held their monthly meeting last night at Love's Hotel, Adamstown, Mr. J. Cook in the chair…

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Seaham Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1898 · page 7

The monthly meeting of the Seaham miners was held in Sharp's Hall on Wednesday night. Mr. D. Evans presided, there being a good attendance. Correspondence was read…

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The World's Coal Output

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1898 · page 12

It is a strange thing, remarks "Machinery," that all the Powers, belligerent as well as neutral, have fought shy of declaring, coal…

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The Mining Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1898 · page 2

Sir,—The conference on Saturday ended just as I thought it would end, with the promise of a rise in the selling price of coal at the beginning of next year. But…

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