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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

1,022 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 52

Hetton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 June 1900 · page 4

A report of a check inspection of the Hetton Colliery, made on 21st and 22nd May gives the following particulars:—Eisdon's main intake, 23,230 cubic feet of air per…

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Maitland District Coal-mining Classes for Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 June 1900 · page 8

Mr. Jonathan May, lecturer in mining at the Newcastle Technical College, attended at the School of Arts on Saturday evening for the purpose of delivering a lecture to…

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Miners' Accident Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 June 1900 · page 5

Mr. Fegan, the N.S.W. Minister for Mines, has prepared a bill for the consideration of Parliament during the current, session to provide for the…

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Wallsend. Miners' Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 June 1900 · page 7

Representatives of the directors of the Wallsend Coal Company, comprising Mr. Reid (chairman), Mr. Storey, and the secretary Mr. J. Wheeler, with…

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The English Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 June 1900 · page 4

The English coal trade is emphatically in an abnormal condition. Notwithstanding that the northern summer is now well advanced the usual…

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The Increased Price of English Coal. Its Expected Results

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 June 1900 · page 5

Home railway stocks, states the "Leeds Mercury," of May 5th, were naturally severely depressed yesterday, in consequence of a statement that the representatives of…

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Coal and Coke Shipments

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 June 1900 · page 4

At the Government cranes at the dyke during the week ended at 8 o'clock yesterday morning the amount of coal and coke shipped by foreign, intercolonial, and coasting vessels was 64,947 tons of coal…

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Greta. Mine Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 June 1900 · page 7

Considerable anxiety was caused on Monday afternoon about 4.30, When several miners were seen coming from the mine carrying a stretcher'. Several of that…

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The World's Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 June 1900 · page 4

That coal is coal nobody will dispute. But some attempt may locally be made to deny that coal is much more important than it has been at…

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The German Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 June 1900 · page 3

To have companions in misfortune (says "Engineering") is proverbially held to lessen the intensity of one's own sufferings, so that in face of the present rise in the…

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Our Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 June 1900 · page 4

That the state of the coal markets in other parts of the world has reacted upon our local coal trade is evident from the result of the meeting of…

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The Selling Price of Coal Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 June 1900 · page 4

A meeting of the colliery proprietors of the Northern district was held at the offices of the Newcastle-Wallsend Company to-day, to consider the…

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Stockton. Work at the Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1900 · page 6

Times have improved at the local colliery. During the quarter now drawing to a close the miners have lost only one quarter shift. This…

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Stockton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1900 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the above lodge was held on Thursday night, Mr. J. Houston, chairman, presiding. A letter was read from the Eight…

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Coal Shipments

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1900 · page 2

During the week ended at 6 a.m yesterday day the daily average of coal shipped at the Government cranes at the dyke by foreign, intercolonial, and coasting vessel was…

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Sea Pit Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1900 · page 5

The quarterly meeting of the above miners was held in Blackburn's Hotel on Thursday evening. The attendance was small. Mr. T. G. Wilson occupied the chair…

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The Coal Trade Prices

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1900 · page 3

The following official correspondence has passed between Mr.James Curley, sercretary of the Colliery Employees' Federation, and Mr. J. Wheeler,…

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The Miners and the "Port."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1900 · page 10

Mr. Christie Murray, born and brought up amid the coal pits of the Black Country, tells a story of three miners who thought they would like to…

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British Coal and Iron Trades

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1900 · page 6

Following are a few recent extracts from the commercial columns of British papers:—("Leeds Mercury," May 12th.) BARNSLEY, Friday.—There has been no…

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Mr. Bailey's Case. Interview with the Minister for Mines. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1900 · page 7

In view of the questions by Mr Edden on the parliamentary business paper on Thursday night with regard to Mr. Bailey, our representative waited on Mr. Fegan, to…

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