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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

1,022 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 48 of 52

Wharfage Rates on Bunker Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 November 1900 · page 4

The dispute between the Melbourne Harbour Trust Commissioners and shipowners who are importers of coal as to the wharfage rates demanded on coal merely transhipped to other outgoing ships,…

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Municipal Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 November 1900 · page 6

One effect in the rapid advance in the price of coal has been to generate a movement in favour of the establishment of municipal collieries…

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Inspection of the Rhondda Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 November 1900 · page 5

Mr. Shepherd Laidley, the senior partner in the firm of Messrs. William Laidley and Co., Sydney, who own the Co-operative and Rhondda collieries, yesterday paid a visit to…

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A Victorian Mining Fatality. Verdict of Manslaughter. Bendigo

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 November 1900 · page 8

The adjourned Inquest touching the death of John Findlay, who died as a result of the injuries received by a fall of earth at the Great Northern mine, Eaglchwk, on the…

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Miners' District Treasurer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 November 1900 · page 7

Sir,—I notice, according to the report given in Saturday's issue of the Sea Pit Miners' Lodge, that Mr. Thos. Wilson, district treasurer, thought it peculiar on the part of the…

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A Sydney Letter. the Muddle Over the Procession Route.—"coal Is King."—that Coogee Bay Tragedy.—the Shameful Position of Lady Parkes.—a Bill Directed Against Public Morals.—womanhood Suffrage Goes. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 November 1900 · page 6

There is a terrible amount of chopping about in connection with the Commonwealth procession. Part of it is due to the illness of the Governor-General, but most of…

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Colliery Explosion. Twenty Miners Killed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—By an explosion of dynamite in a colliery at Aniche, France, twenty of the miners were killed and forty injured…

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District News. Adamstown. New Lambton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1900 · page 7

The New Lambton miners are taking steps to form themselves into a lodge and become affiliated with the Colliery Employees' Federation. There…

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Mining Certificates

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1900 · page 6

Sir,—In your issue of Saturday, the 24th inst, there appeared a letter signed "Student" in reference to certain questions that had been asked…

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British Iron and Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1900 · page 7

The "Iron and Coal Traded Review," writing on the condition of the English markets for manufactured iron and Feel and coal on October 11, says:—…

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Another Mining Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1900 · page 8

The colliery proprietors have agreed to meet the representatives of the miners in conference at the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce next Saturday. One of the…

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The Coal Industry in Japan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1900 · page 3

The question of coal supply is at present attracting attention in every industrial country in the world, and the owners of coal mines are making fortunes utmost as rapidly…

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The Hetton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 December 1900 · page 4

A meeting of the Hetton miners was hold at the Albion Hotel, Wickham, on Thursday night, Mr. J. Brock in the chair…

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Outtrim Mine, Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 December 1900 · page 6

We have received from Mr. A. A. Wilson, of Outtrim, general secretary Victoria Cool Miners' Association, the following statement regarding the…

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Coal Output in France

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 December 1900 · page 3

For the first half of the current year the output of coal in France, including anthracite and lignite, amounted to 16,529,887 tons, being 146,099 tons over the corresponding…

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"Rules Objected to by the Outtrim Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 December 1900 · page 6

"Rule No. 25. No workman shall descend or ascend any of the pits at any other times than the regular hours fixed, except when directed so…

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Greta. Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 December 1900 · page 8

A special meeting of miners was held at the Masonic Hall on Monday evening. Mr. A. Phillips, the chairman, stated that the meeting had been called to consider the…

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A Colliery Disaster. Greta Mine on Fire. Five Men Entombed. No Hope of Rescue. Greta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 December 1900 · page 4

A terrible calamity has occurred here, by which five lives have been lost, owing to an outbreak of fire in the Greta mine. From what can be gathered of the disaster, it…

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Our Coal Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1900 · page 2

The Government have appointed a Royal Commission to inquire into all matters connected with our coal supply, and the working of the mines throughout the colony…

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Greta Colliery Disaster Sealing Down the Mine. the Manager's Statement. Greta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1900 · page 5

The work of "sealing off" the mine was commenced this morning. Prior to the commencement of operations. Inspectors Atkinson, Dixon, and…

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