Sea Pit Miners
A special meeting of the Sea Pit miners was held in Blackburn's Hotel, on Thursday evening. In the absence of the chairman, Mr. J. Winsor occupied the chair…
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Mining & the mines, 1904
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District News. West Wallsend. Miners' Meetings
The Seaham miners held a special general meeting on Thursday evening in the Federal Hall, for the purpose of considering the minute from the Delegate board…
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Sir,—In the issue of the "Newcastle Morning Herald" of the 13th inst., there appears an account of an adjourned meeting of the Waratah miners, in which it is…
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The reply of the Railway Commissioners to the deputation that waited on them to protest against the imposition of differential railway rates for…
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Coal-getting was resumed yesterday at the Pacific and Waratah Collieries, which had been idle for many months. In the case of the Pacific the men went in on…
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Coalowners are much dissatisfied with the reply which the Railway Commissioners gave to the deputation which requested the restoration of the 20 per cent…
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The secretary of the Pacific miners, Mr. Williams, is reported to have received, on Sunday last a letter from the secretary of the Colliery Employees,…
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Mr. Henry Hall, H.M.I.M., I.S.O., exhibited at the December meeting of the Manchester Geological and Mining Society some abraded coal which had apparently…
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The agreement proposed to govern the working conditions of the coal trade which, as previously stated, was adopted by the majority of the miners' lodges of…
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A conference of representatives of the Colliery Proprietors' Association and the Western Miners' Association was resumed at Lithgow on Tuesday. The proprietors…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—There many mines still undestroyed in Kerr Bay, near Port Arthur. The work of destruction by the Japanese is…
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The monthly meeting of the Stockton Miners' Lodge was held last night. Mr. E. O'Toole presided, and there was a very fail meeting…
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The Seaham miners held their monthly meeting on Tuesday evening in the Federal Hall. Mr. D. Evans presided. Correspondence was read from the…
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News recently rached Townsville (Q.), from New Guinea, to the effect that Messrs Livesey and Newcombe, of Townsville, had discovered a gold deposit about 30 miles…
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The monthly meeting of the Sea Pit miners was held in Blackburn's Hotel on Thursday evening. There was a good attendance, and Mr. J. Halliday presided…
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It was recently announced that serious trouble was threatened in the Yorkshire coal trade by reason of the refusal of the South Yorkshire masters to become…
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LONDON, Friday.—Japanese officers have informed the dispatch steamer Fawan that two destroyers which had escaped from Port Arthur were still…
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Coal is applied to the generation of heat and light. Heat is derived from the burning of the coal, and is the result of the chemical combination of the oxygen…
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Any seekers after El Dorado—and there are plenty of them in Victoria—who have been turning their eyes New Guineaward attracted by the gold discoveries there,…
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Seven of the collieries worked full time for the fortnight, which ended on Saturday, and ten others did well, Rhondda only got in one day and Wallsend,…
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