Work at the Collieries
Referendum Day being observed as a holiday, the full time at the pits for the fortnight which ended on Saturday is 10 days. Very few of the collieries were able to work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1899
815 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 41
Wallsend Miners
A special meeting of the Wallsend miners was held on Saturday evening, Mr. J. Bower in the chair. The chairman explained that the meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Shipments
The coal shipments at the dyke for the week ending at 6 a.m. yesterday amounted to 49,047 tons, as compared with 56,858 tons for the corresponding period of last year and showing a decrease of 7811 tons on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How Miners Meet Death
A mining story would be considered incomplete without a harrowing description of the hero's sufferings during an underground catastrophe…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney Harbour Collieries Works. Over One Thousand Feet Reached
The extensive and comprehensive works of the Sydney Harbour Collierles Company now being carried out at Balmain, on the Iron Cove shore side, have Just now reached…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Glebe Miners
The quarterly meeting of the above miners was held on Monday evening in Simpson's Hall. The attendance was only moderate. Mr. M. Wilbraham…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →British Mines and Quarries
Part I. of the general report and statistics of mines and quarries for 1898 has just been issued as a Blue-book. It contains statistics of the persons employed, output, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Kentish Coal Field
A discovery of coal to which much importance is attached by geologists as bearing upon the coal seams pierced in Kent, is announced in the Pas do Calais. It brings…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Trouble at the Pacific Colliery. Proprietors' Terms Again Declined
At present there is no sign of an early settlement of the strike at the Pacific Colliery, brought about in consequence of What the, miners consider to be unproportionate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Trouble at the Pacific Colliery Eleven Miners Return to
The miners of the Pacific-Co-operative Colliery who are out on strike against the price of 1s 9d offered by the company for filling all away…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seaham Miners
A special meeting of the above miners was held in Sharp's Hall, West Wallsend, on Wednesday night, Mr. W. Hodge presiding, for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sea Pit Miners
A special meeting of the above miners was held last evening. The attendance was small; Mr. E. Buxton in the chair. The delegate (Mr. Thos, Wilson) read and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Greta. Miners' Meeting
The quarterly meeting of miners was held at Palmer's hotel on Wednesday evening, Mr. A. Phillips in the chair. The secretary read the balance-sheet,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Dredging. SYDNEY
A deputation, representing the Chamber of Mines, and accompanied by .Mr. E. D. Millen, M.L.C., and Messrs. Austin Chapman and R. A. Price, Ms.P., interviewed the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When Was Coal First Mined?
A mining engineer of Aix (France) has been dipping again into certain old documents, and has reached the conclusion that the earliest coal mining operations…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The World's Coal Supplies
The annual compilation of the Board of Trade, which details the figures of coal production and consumption, and prices in various, countries over a series of years…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District News. Minmi. Miners' Meeting
The monthly meeting of the Back Creek and Duckenfield miners was held on Thursday night in Mr. D Wile's hall. The attendance was only moderate, and Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Aggregate Meeting. Narrowed Down to a Meeting with Dudley Men. the Question of Compensation for Safety Lamps
An aggregate meeting of miners and other workmen was convened by the Colliery Employees' Federation to be held at Dudley on Saturday afternoon, "to consider the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Mining Situation. What the Dudley Dispute Really Means. the Question of Compensation for Safety Lamps
It would appear from the speeches at the meetings at Dudley on Saturday that the question of compensation for the use of safety lamps in mining is to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Shipments
The coal shipments at the cranes for the week ending at 6 a.m. yesterday amounted to 48,016 tons, as compared with 47,594 tons for the corresponding period of 1898, and showing an increase of 422 tons in…
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