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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

1,022 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 39 of 52

Summons Division. Coal Mining Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 October 1900 · page 6

Colliery Inspector William Humble prosecuted R. N. Kirk (agent of the Stockton Colliery) and George Fletcher (manager of the Stockton Colliery) for…

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Parliament. Thursday, October 4. Legislative Assembly. New Zealand Annexations. the Hawkesbury Bridge. Sunday Loading of Coal. Early Closing Amendment Bill. Sydney

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

The Speaker took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. The POSTMASTER-GENERAL, in…

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Burwood Colliery. Non-compliance with the Mines Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1900 · page 5

At the Lambton Police Court yesterday, before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M., Mr. Thomas Croudace, general manager of the Scottish-Australian Mining Company, was charged…

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Burwood Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1900 · page 4

Mr. Stephen Syme, secretary for Burwood miners, has received a communication from the colliery manager, declining to abolish the night-shift…

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Durham Miners' Wages

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1900 · page 5

Mr. John Wilson, M.P., on behalf of the members of the Mining Federation Board, England, recently issued a circular to the members dealing with…

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Parliament. Friday, October 5. Legislative Assembly. Municipalities Amending Bill. Mining Bill. Fire Brigades Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1900 · page 4

The speaker took the chair at half-past 10 o'clock. SUPPLY. A message was received tram the…

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The Tenure of Coal Mining Leases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 October 1900 · page 4

The subjects of the relationship which at present exists between the State and the colliery proprietor, and of the proposed alterations of the…

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The Northumberland (Eng.), Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 October 1900 · page 6

The proxy voting at the Northumland (Eng.) collieries on the proposal to give a donation of £100 to the Indian Famine Relief Fund has resulted…

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Mining Interests Around Newcastle. Representative Interview with the Minister. the Proposed Amended Mining Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 October 1900 · page 5

The Hon. J. L. Fegan, the Minister for Mines, who proposes introducing a Consolidated Amended Mining Bill, met representatives of the coal industry, and the…

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Coal Shipment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1900 · page 4

The shipments of coal [?] coke at the Government cranes at the dyke during the week ended at 6 o'clock yesterday morning were:—Coal, 63,387 tons; coke, 271 tons. During the corresponding…

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Minmi. Special Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1900 · page 7

Mr. John Mitchell presided at a special meeting, called to receive nominations for the appointment of a district treasurer. Mr. John Bower, of Wallsend Lodge, was…

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District News. Wallsend. Miners' Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1900 · page 7

At the last monthly meeting of the Wallsend miners a discussion took place relative to the number of places being worked by day labour in No. 2 tunnel and…

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Coal Strike in America. Continued Deadlock

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The American anthracite strikers decline to accept a 10 per cent advance, and persist in other demands. The deadlock…

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A Sydney Letter. Blackmailing Our "Aristocracy."—an Opposition Victory.—an "All Red" Contingent for Sydney.—wanted, Mining Share Deading Reform.—the Governor-general. — Irregular Trains. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1900 · page 3

A pretty thing transpired during evidence in the Public Library Inquiry. As everybody knews, there are a number of wealthy families in Sydney whose ancestors at the…

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District News. Lambton. the Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 5

This pit was laid idle yesterday owing to a dispute between the screenmen and the management. The men demand that their wages be increased from 5s 6d per day to…

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Aged Miners' Homes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 6

The committee of the Durham (Eng.) Aged Miners' Homes Association have had, recently, offers from two companise to take over the 98 houses they…

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Coal Shipping Regulations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 5

The following correspondence between the Railway Department and the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce has been handed us for publication:—…

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The Proposed Coal Trade Commission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 7

At the invitation of the miners' delegate board, Messrs. Edden and Thomson, Ms.P., met the district officers, Messrs. Bower, Curley, and Wilson, at the Trades…

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America and the Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 8

New York, August 24.—The condition of the English coal market has already led to fresh developments of the American trade. But now…

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A Look Around Cardiff. the Local Collieries in Operation. Some New Fields

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 2

Now that the local collieries are in full swing again, the township of Cardiff is beginning to look up. There was a time when this suburb had very…

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