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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

1,022 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 52

Queensland Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 August 1900 · page 4

Things are not always what they seem, and it is possible that the prospects of coal-mining in Queensland may prove to be brighter than the…

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Mines Inspection Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 August 1900 · page 3

Sir,—Your leader of the 17th instant approves, and rightly, the motives prompting the Minister in introducing this measure for metal mines. But the bill as it…

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Cardiff and South Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 August 1900 · page 5

The threatened difficulty regarding hewing rates has been amicably adjusted at Cardiff and South Wallsend Collieries, the offer of Mr. W. W…

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Queensland Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 August 1900 · page 7

The Hon. J. Murray, Minister for Railways, Mr. Gray the Commissioner for Railways together with the Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Thallon, and…

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France and American Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 August 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The French navy is importing American coal…

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Wallsend. Miners' Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 7

The operation of the [?] under the [?] Act as spclied to the [?] of [?] going [?] on a missed [?] a period of eight boars has [?]…

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The Old Goldfields of Rhodesia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 5

The Bulawayo "Chronicle" of June 13 contains a long report of a lecture entitled "Something about Gold," delivered before the members of the…

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Queensland Colliery Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 August 1900 · page 5

At a meeting of the Coalmasters' Association held in Ipswich on Tuesday last, the question of increased hewing rate, as asked for by the miners, was…

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Mines Eight Hours Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 August 1900 · page 4

The endeavour of the Government of this colony to benefit the working conditions of the miner by means of the provisions of the Mines Eight…

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Mines Eight Hours Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 August 1900 · page 5

In the Legislative Council, the following new clauses are to be proposed in Committee of the Whole by the Hon. Alexander Brown:—…

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Greta. the Mining Dispute Settled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 August 1900 · page 3

As the miners' secretary had received a letter from the colliery manager about midday on Saturday the bell-boy was immediately sent round the town calling the miners…

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Coal Resources of the United Kingdom

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 August 1900 · page 7

The President of the Victoria Institute, Sir G. Gabriel Stokes, presided at the annual meeting of the institute in London, when Professor Edward Hull delivered the…

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European Affairs and the Coal Supply

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 August 1900 · page 4

The uneasy feeling which prevails in high political circles in Europe is daily manifested by statements regarding important military and naval…

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The Southern Miners. Conference to Be Held. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 August 1900 · page 5

The Southern Miners Delegate Lodge has adopted the following resolution, which has been forwarded to the Southern Coal-owners' Association:—"That this meeting…

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Coal Mines Regulation Act. Prosecutions Under the Weighing Clause. Seven Colliery Managers Fined. Two "Owners" Also Penalised

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 August 1900 · page 3

The cases under section 38, sub-section 1, of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, against the managers of the Hetton, Co-operative, Lambton, Stockton, Brown's,…

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The Queensland Colliery Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 August 1900 · page 3

The Queensland Coalowners' Association have notified that the following hewing rates will be paid from 1st September at the undermentioned collieries:—…

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Robinson and Rice's Gold Mine. Report of Mr. E. F. Pittman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 August 1900 · page 5

The following report has been furnished by Mr. E. F. Pittman, Government Geologist:— "I have the honour to report that I…

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The European Demand for Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 August 1900 · page 4

Purchases of coal are being made on a gigantic scale, a fact which demonstrates the existence of an abnormal state of affairs throughout the world…

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Queensland Colliery Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 August 1900 · page 5

There is no new development in connection with the colliery trouble (writes the Ipswich correspondent of the Brisbane "Courier"), and it is…

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Burwood Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 August 1900 · page 5

A special meeting of Burwood Miners' Lodge was held last night at Dorrity's Hotel, New Lambton. The meeting was called for the purpose of…

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