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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
939 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 41 of 47
The miners of this district never for one moment supposed that the enforcement of the weighing provisions of the Coal Mines Regulation Act—with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The scheme of old-age pensions for miners which Mr. Edmondson, an English barrister-at-law, has devised, proposes to make it the law of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An accident of a very serious nature occurred in the colliery at East Greta yesterday afternoon at about 3 o'clock, when two young men, William Henderson and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The talk o' the town is Mr. Reid's change of front on the fiscal question—otherwise his determination to reimpose, after denouncing them, certain…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—As a rule I generally fight capitalistic enemies of workers, but I am now reluctantly compelled, to attack an enemy in the ranks of the workers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Philadelphia has had a shipping record, having in one day dispatched in four vessels 13,059 tons of coal to foreign ports. These shipments greatly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A new steam motor tipping coal waggon has been designed and built by Messrs. T. Toward and Co., engineers, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, in conjunction…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. John Bale, of Chatsworth, Clarence River, writes as follows:—I received a letter from a friend residing at East Maitland, stating he was coming up within three…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following paper, by Mr. Jon. May, teacher of mining and mine engineering, Technical College, was read at a meeting on Saturday night of the Newcastle Technical College…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An examination of those ideas in detail will lead to one or two very important reforms being urgently demanded, before the effects of technical instruction can have even the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir, The action of the miners in referring back the agreement to the masters for re-adjustment is a step in the right direction, and meet with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The recent wheeling difficulty at the Burwood Colliery, which caused some 250 miners to be out of work for about a month through no fault of their own, was brought under the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A special meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held at the Trades Hall yesterday, to consider, among other things, an offer from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The matter of the Broken Hill Proprietary Block 10 Company and Land and Income Tax Assessment Act was before the Full Court to-day, in the nature of a special case…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The mining situation was discussed at a meeting of the committee of the colliery proprietors, held at the Great Northern Hotel yesterday. Mr. Thos…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Work has been well distributed for the fortnight which ended on Saturday, nearly the whole of the pits working full time—which is 10 days, in consequence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Concerning the proposition to use finely powdered coal instead of gas in engines similar to the gas-engine, a correspondent of the "American…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is understood that the Admiralty intend storing 13,000 tons of Westport steam coal at Sydney for the use of the ships of the squadron. The first consignment—amounting to 1660 tons—has arrived from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The conference between the joint committee of colliery proprietors and miners to deal with the present situation of the coal trade, and to fix…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The coal shipments at the Government cranes for the week ended yesterday amounted to 56,195 tons, as declared with 42,704 tons for the corresponding [?] of last year. The increase for the week…
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