Work at the Collieries
Work has been intermittent at the collieries for the fortnight on account of the holidays are the annual overhauls. Full time was nine days. Four collieries got…
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Mining & the mines, 1905
802 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 41
Buewood Miners
A special meeting of the Burwood miners was held at Hogg's Hotel. Adamstown on Friday night. Mr. A. Hallawell in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Reductions. Wheelers Give Notice
The business of the Miners' Delegate Board, which was commenced on Friday, was continued at the Trade Hall, Newcastle, under the presidency of Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kurri. Pelaw Main Miners
A mass meeting of the Pelaw Alain lodge of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held at Milgate's hall on Friday night to consider the position of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold in Death Valley
The famcus Valley of Death in the Island of Mindanao, in the Philippines, has at last been compelled to give up the rich treasure which for ages it his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charlestown. Fossicking for Gold
Some time ago an article appeared in the "Newcastle Morning Herald" on the State gold mining industry, suggesting that it would be of use if the Minister for Mines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Transvaal Mining Yields
LONDON, Monday.—During 1994 the gold mining companies in the Transvaal distributed £3,908,670 in dividends. Aliogether, including the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Mining Industry. Work Largely Suspended. Action by the Wheelers. Twelve Collieries Thrown Idle
It having been known that the wheelers and some other hands employed about the collieries in the Newcastle district were disinclined to resume work at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →East Greta Collieries
With the exception of at Pelaw-Main, there was no trouble at the collieries in the South Maitland district. The rates of pay at East Greta, and presumably at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Mining Industry. Wheelers' Meeting. Arbitration Court Will Sit
The mining situation underwent but little change yesterday. The same collieries remained idle as were Idle on Tuesday, and there is not at present any…
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Sir,—I wish to draw the attention of the Miners' Federation to the treatment of six members of the Northern Extended Miners' Lodge, who, eight weeks since,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Conservation of Coal
England, says "Traction and Transmission, was a prosperous country before the steam age, and the British fleets were widely respected when their mobility was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Mining Difficulty. Affidavits for the Court Position at Dudley
The miners presented themselves at some of the collieries for week yesterday, but the wheelers being absent they did not go down the mines. At…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collingwood Gold Mine
Writing about coal and coal mines reminds me of a story I heard the other day about a gold mine which was started at Collingwood early in the sixties. Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wallarah Miners
Mr. J. N. Brown, secretary of the Wallarah Miners' Lodge, writes:—At a special meeting of the Wallarah miners, held on 5th last. Mr. J. Bassett presiding, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pelaw Main Miners
In connection with the trouble at the Pelaw-Main Colliery. It may be interesting to note that the original reductions notified by the proprietors. Messrs. J. and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Coal Contracts
In deciding to take a large quantity of Gippsland coal for use on the railways. Cabinet Ministers state they were automated chiefly by the desire to keep the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Coal Mining Difficulty. Decision of the Court. Wheelers to Resume Work. Sydney
A special sitting of the Arbitration Court was held at noon to-day with the object of hearing an application by the Northern Colliery Proprietors'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Wallsend. West Wallsend Miners
The monthly meeting of the West Wallsend Miners' Lodge was held on Thursday evening, in the Federal Hall. Mr. S. J. Timmins presided. It was decided, owing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Mining Situation
The Arbitration Court has decided that the wheelers in the Northern collieries were not justified in refusing to work because of the reduction in their…
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