Work at the Collieries
For the fortnight ended on Saturday all the collieries in the Newcastle and Maitland districts worked broken time owing to the holidays. The greatest number of…
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Mining & the mines, 1906
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Shipment of Coal. the New Contract. Co-operative Shipping Company
Much interest is being shown by the public, and especially by those directly interested, as to what will be the result of the acceptance by the Railway…
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No settlement has been effected at New Lambton Colliery, where notice was given a fortnight age that the hewing rate from the first of the year would be…
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A special meeting of the Wallsend Miners' Lodge was held at the School of Arts on Saturday. Mr. C. Richardson presiding over a limited attendance. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District News. Minmi. Miners' Meeting
A meeting of the Back Crook and Duckenfield Miners' Ledge was held on Friday evening in Pool's Hall, Mr. W. Standing being in the chair. Mr. J…
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The Ebbw Vale miners, as stated in yesterday's issue, were called on by the company to start the new year with a hewing rate of 2s per ton for filling all away…
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[?] morning the wheelers employed at Shortland Colliery approached the manager, Mr. J. Ruttley, with a request for an advance of 6d per day. Mr…
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The gold yield for December amounted to 162,090 fine ounces, or 2982 ounces less than in the same month of the previous year. The yield for 1905 was 1,955,314…
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The shortland Colliery wheelers, who laid the mine idle on Tuesday, owing to the refusal of the manager to give them an advance of 6d per day, put in an…
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The quarterly meeting of the Glebe Miners' Lodge was held on Monday evening. There was a good attendance, and Mr. R. Powell was in the chair…
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A meeting of the committee of management of the Colliery Employees' Federation, was held yesterday at the Trades Hall. There was a full attendance of the…
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The contracts for the coal for the locomotive needs of some of the great English railway companies are now in course of settlement for this year. Those for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District News. Merewether. Miners' Accident Fund
The annual meeting of the subscribers to the Newcastle Coal Company's branch of the Miners' Accident Fund was held on Wednesday evening, Mr. M. Watson…
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The 14 days' notice given by the management to the men in order to close the old condition under which the men were working expired yesterday, and the men…
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On Saturday a conference was held in the council room of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce between representatives of the colliery proprietors and…
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Sir,—In the report of the Glebe miners' meeting, in reference to the election of Trades Hall trustees, the chairman did not say that it was inexplicable that no…
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According to Mr. Liewellyn Smith's report on the coat consumption and production of 1991, issued with the statistical tables published every year by the Board…
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A miner named W. Thacker, employed at wallsend Colliery, met with an accident yesterday, whereby rather serious injuries are said to have been sustained…
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A settlement of the trouble at Shortland Colliery seems to be as far off as ear. The miners went to the colliery yesterday. In their working clothes,…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—AN explosion has occurred in a mine at Innolakita, Japan. One hundred and one mines were incinerated…
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