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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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Victorian Gold Finds. the Poseidon Nuggets. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1906 · page 5

The finders of the 967oz nugget at the Poseidon rush, near Tarnagulla, in Victoria, have disposed of it for £4 5s an oz, which brings the total value to…

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Coal Ships in France

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 December 1906 · page 4

A Rouen correspondent write warning shipowners not to fix their steamers to Rouen or other north French ports, such as Calais, Boulogne, Dunkirk, and Dieppe, with coals,…

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Sea Pit Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 December 1906 · page 4

The Sea Pit M[?] Lodge met on Monday evening a Blackburn's hotel, Mr. Joseph Halliday presiding. The secretary road the balance-sheet…

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Australia's Gold Discoveries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 December 1906 · page 4

The finding of large nuggets of gold in the recently discovered alluvial lead at Tarnagulla, Victoria, directs attention to an industry which has done…

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Coal Cargoes. Question of Ventilation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 December 1906 · page 4

In a recent issue of the "Chillan Times" a shipmaster, who is well known at Newcastle, contributes an article on the ventilation of coal cargoes…

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A Deluded Gaoler. Dazzled by Gold. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 December 1906 · page 5

The end of a somewhat sensational case is reported from Bavaria, in Germany. It appears that some time ago two…

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United Kingdom Coal Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 December 1906 · page 5

It has more than once been suggested that the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association will find it hard to maintain the rise in the price of coal to 10s per…

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Hetton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 December 1906 · page 5

At the quarterly meeting of the members of the Hetton Miners' Lodge, held last night in the lodgeroom at Wickham, Mr. G. Oldham presided. There was a fair…

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Shortland Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 5

The efforts of the Shortland miners to regain admission to the Colliery Employees' Federation have not had the desired effect. The federation, before…

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New Lambton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 5

The New Lambton miners have been given notice that they will receive next year an advance of 1½d per ton on the hewing rate at present existing. The…

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Mining Matters. Wallarah Difficulty

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 5

Mr. Peter Bowling, president of the Colliery Employees' Federation, and Mr. James Curley, general secretary, went to Catherine Hill Bay on Thursday to have…

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Mining Matters. New Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 December 1906 · page 5

A meeting of the New Lambton miners was held at Blakemore's hotel, Adamstown, on Saturday night, for the purpose of further considering the position of…

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Work at the Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 December 1906 · page 5

Owing to the Christmas holidays nine days constituted full time at the collieries for the fortnight, and a number of miners did not work…

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From Coal Pit to Parliament

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 December 1906 · page 5

Nearly thirty Labour members entertained to dinner at the House of Commons last month, two of their number, Mr. O. Fenwick and Mr. W. Abraham…

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