The Cardiff Collieries. Explanation by Mr. Johnson
In regard to the prices for working at the Cardiff collieries, Mr. W. W. Johnson explains that he originally agreed to give is 10½d at the Cardiff mine, and 2s 1½d…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1901
867 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 44
England's Coal Problem
Nearly the whole of England's export trade is based on coal, and the moment she fails to procure it cheaply enough for manufacturing purposes,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lithgow Coal Trade. Lithgow
There is still an abnormally large demand for Lithgow coal for shipping purposes, the further expansion of which is limited by the irregular supply of empty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This Year's Hewing Rates. the Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery
Mr. Jas. Fletcher, the manager of the Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery, has written to Mr. W. Howie, the miners secretary, offering the following terms from 1st…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Boom. From an International Point of View
It is one of the most striking and remarkable features of the coal boom of the present year that it is almost of world-wide extent. It is true that the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Teralba. Miners' Meeting
A meeting of the Pacific miners was held in Hodges' Hall at 4 o'clock on Monday afternoon, Mr. T. Urwin, the chairman, conducting the meeting. The meeting was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The World's Gold
Though the rush for gold, is so keen nowadays, it is a remarkable fact that the amount of the precious metal, which is turned into coin by the world's mints each…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Famine in Victoria
Melbourne finds itself on the verge of a coal famine. This is aid brought about by the rather lengthy pit holidays at Newcastle says a correspondent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Cardiff Collieries
A meeting of the miners employed in Cardiff and South Wallsend collieries was held yesterday morning. A deputation was appointed to wait upon Mr. W. W. Johnson this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Earliest Gold Diggings
In a note to the Academic des Sciences, Paris, M. Berthelot points out that before the time of Croesus of Lydia gold found in surface diggings was not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria and the Price of Coal
"Every day makes it clearer," says the Melbourne "Argus," "that the stoppage of the Newcastle collieries will seriously hamper manufacturers throughout Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This Year's Hewing Rates. Wickham and Bullock Island Miners. Protest Against the New Rates. No Work To-day
A meeting of the Wickham and Bullock Island miners was held at Rapson's Hall, Islington, yesterday morning. Mr. J. Middleby presided, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Wallsend Miners' Meeting
A meeting of the above miners was hold yesterday morning in Wilson's Hall, Mr. W. Laind presiding, there being a fair attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District News. Wallsend. Miners' Matters
The prognostications of the district chairman (Mr. W. Bower) at a recent meeting of the Wallsend miners concerning the probability of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Northern Extended Colliery. Work to Be Resumed Under Protest
A well-attended meeting of the Northern Extended miners was held at Toralba yesterday afternoon. Mr. W. Bower, the district chairman; Mr. T. Wilson, the district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wickham and Bullock Island Miners. No Settlement of the Dispute
The adjourned meeting of the Wickham and Bullock Island miners, to here the report of the deputation which waited upon the manager in regard to the working…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hetton Miners. the Prices for This Year. Protest Against the Terms Offered
A special meeting of the Hetton miners was held at the Albion Hotel, Wickham, yesterday morning, to consider general business, and a letter from the colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Discovery of an Arctic Goldfield
Captain Harry Mackay, of the Dundeo whaler Esquimaux, has brought from Davis Strait specimens of auriferous quartz from a sport at which he considers gold exists in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Cardiff Collieries
Mr. Wm. Bower (district chairman) along with Messrs. J. Briggs, A. James, and J. Norton, officers of the Cardiff Lodge, interviewed Mr. W. W. Johnson…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wallsend Colliery
A deputation, comprising Mr. C. Richardson (chairman), Mr. J. Bower (secretary), Mr. W. Wills (treasurer), Mr. T. Bower (delegate), and Mr. Wm…
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