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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

1,022 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 37 of 52

The Gippsland Coal Miners' Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 September 1900 · page 7

Mr. Arthur A. Wilson, general secretary of the Victorian Coal Miners' Association, Gippsland District, A.L. Federation, sends us his reply to the recently published…

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The World's Supply of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 September 1900 · page 7

Some alarming figures have been got together to prove that the world's supply of coal in the future must come from the United States. It has been…

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The Coal Shipping Appliances Local Committee's Report

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 September 1900 · page 4

Alderman J. M. Hyde last night forwarded to the Railway Commissioners a copy of the report drafted by the committee appointed to inquire into the…

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The Southern Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 September 1900 · page 3

As foreshadowed in our issue of Saturday last states the "Illawarra Mercury," the owners' reply has created unbounded dissatisfaction among…

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The Coal Trade. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 September 1900 · page 5

Mr. D. Watkins asked the Premier in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon if, in view of the statements of certain colliery proprietors as to the present selling price…

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Gippsland Coal Trouble. Arbitration Refused

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 September 1900 · page 7

All doubt as to whether the Gippsland colliery proprietors would consent to allow the matters in dispute between themselves and their employees to be referred to…

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The Outtrim (Vic) Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 7

A largely attended meeting of the Outtrim Lodge of the Victorian Coalminers' Association was held on Saturday evening, writes the Outtrim correspondent of the…

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British Coal in France

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 7

Various reports from British Consular officers in France, show a very great increase, in most districts, in the importation of British coal to France…

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The Announced Increase in Coal Prices

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 4

The fact that the colliery proprietors of the northern district, assembled in Sydney yesterday, decided upon raising the price of round coal on and…

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Coal for the Imperial Navy. Orders for Canada and America

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The British Admiralty has ordered 5000 tons of American coal for delivery at Bermuda, and 2500 tons at Halifax, for…

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The Price of Coal. to Be Advanced to 11s Per Ton. Selling Prices and Hewing Rates of the Past

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 5

There was much satisfaction in Newcastle yesterday when the information was posted outside this office to the effect that the committee of colliery proprietors had…

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Sea Pit Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 6

The quarterly meeting of the above was held on Thursday evening, Mr. T. C. Wilson in the chair. The attendance was very small…

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The Hetton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 5

A meeting of the Hetton miners was held at the Albion Hotel, Wickham, on Thursday evening, under the presidency of Mr. John Brock…

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The Coal Famine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 11

In many parts of the country, says the "English Mechanic," it is pretty certain that one result of the high price of coal will be an increase in the consumption of…

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The Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 2

The outlook for the coal trade was never so promising for years as it is at present. The determination of the coalowners to put the price up to 11s from January 1 appears…

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The Gold Supply

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The chairman of the Bank of Africa States that owing to the stoppage of the Transvaal gold mines the world's supply of raw gold…

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The Export of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 8

Mr. Thomas Burt, M.P., in his monthly circular to the Northumberland (Eng.) miners, says:—"A vigorous agitation for checking or for entirely…

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American Coal Strike. a Settlement

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The American anthracite coal miners, who struck for an advance, have secured a 10 per cent. increase…

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Mining Catastrophe. Cobar

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 5

A mining catastrophe occurred at Cobar Gold Mines, Fort Bourke, yesterday, owing to a fall of earth. Two men—one named John Nicholls, aged…

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Ebagoolah. the Latest Northern Goldfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 3

One of the most experienced miners in North Queensland has just returned from the Ebagoolah goldfied in the Cape York Penisular, the newest and…

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