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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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District News Plattsburg. Co-operative Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1906 · page 6

Regret is felt at the intimation that all the workmen at the Co-operative Colliery have received fourteen days' notice from the management of the termination of…

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The Price of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1906 · page 4

A metropolitan newspaper deprecates the formation of a combine to raise the price of coal among the northern colliery proprietors, which,…

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Miners' Accident Fund. Annual Report. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1906 · page 4

The fifth annual report of the Miners' Accident Relief Board has been compiled for the information of the Government. It shows that the Accident Relief Fund…

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Arbitration Court. Coal Lumpers' Award. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1906 · page 5

The matter of the C[?]umpers award was mentioned in the [?]ation Court to-day, when Mr. Kelynack and Mr. A. G. M. Pitt appeared for the respondent…

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Victorian Coal Commission. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1906 · page 5

The Coal Commission sat again in Melbourne. John Evans, an English certificated mining engineer, and manager of a new…

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Arbitration Cort Coal-lumpers' Aw[?]d. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1906 · page 5

The Arbitration Court was [?]er engaged to-day hearing the application for a common rule in connection in the Coal-lumpers' award…

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Hetton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 6

The quarterly meeting of members of the Hetton Lodge was held last night, at the Albion Hotel, Wickham, Mr. G. Oldham, chairman of the lodge, presided, and…

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Miners' Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 4

The report of the Miners' Accident Relief Board for the past year discloses some facts which are worthy of thorough investigation. In the…

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Victorian Coal Commission. New South Wales Competition. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 5

The State Coal Commission sat in Melbourne again to-day. Mr. Edward John Dunn, director of the Geological Survey of Victoria, stated that…

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Mining Appeal. M'laughlin V. Caledonian Coal Co. Judgement Reversed. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 7

Reserved judgment was delivered by the Full Court to-day in the appeal case of John William M'Laughlin v. the Caledonian Coal Company, Ltd. The action, which wan…

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The Price of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 14

The efforts of certain Newcastle colliery proprietors to raise the price of coal are being watched here with considerable interest by Victorian coalmine…

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Victorian Coal Commission. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 5

The Coal Commission took further evidence in Melbourne to-day. Mr. Thomas Hale Woodroffe, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Victorian…

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Selling Price of Coal. Meeting of Proprietors. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 5

A meeting of the colliery proprietors of the Newcastle and Maitland districts was held at the offices of Messrs. Minister, Simpson and Co., to-day, with the…

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London News. General Booth on Emigration.—mr. Outhwaite Intervenes.—australia and Chamberlain.—ireland and Australia.—the A. A. Company's Coal and Pastoral Business.—some Strange Australian Visitors in London.—australian Actress' London Success.—theatrical Gossip.—personal News and Notes. London, February 23rd

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 13

There was a great gathering of Australians at the Royal Coloinal Institute, on Tuesday, to hear General Booth on emigration. The General said, that what he…

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Great Mining Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 April 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The American Mine Workers' Association has ordered all the colliers employed in the anthracite mines to strike. One…

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Mine Accident at Clackmannan? Men Kept Alive by Oxygen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 April 1906 · page 6

On February 3rd, at 9.30 a.m., this pit was flooded, and five men entombed. The men were in the lower seam and the water was 10ft above the door-head of…

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Co-operative Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 April 1906 · page 4

As already stated, fourteen days' notice has been given to the miners and other workers at the Co-operative Colliery, Plattsburg, the reason assigned by the…

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Coal Trade of the Philippines. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 April 1906 · page 6

Mr. Moore, the Minister tor Mines, has received a report from Mr. J. B. Suttor, the Commercial Agent for this State in the East, on the trade of the Philippine…

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United States Strike. Half a Million Miners. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 April 1906 · page 5

Over half a million anthracite miners have struck work in the United States. The union permits engine-drivers,…

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Coal-lumpers' Award. Arbitration Court Proceedings. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 April 1906 · page 5

The Arbitration Court to-day further considered the application for a common rule in respect of the award made recently in the coal-lumpers' dispute. Mr…

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