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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1907

920 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 46

Sea Pit Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 3

A meeting of the Sea Pit Miners' Lodge was held on Thursday evening. Mr. Jos. Halliday presided. An appeal for assistance was received…

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Newcastle Coal Trimmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 6

The scarcity of union labour for coal trimming on vessels at Newcastle is still being felt. Yesterday several vessels were delayed owing to this insufficiency of…

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Mining Trickery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 13

People who ride in trams and trains have recently been finding letters lying about in an indiscriminate way. None of them bear any complete address, but are…

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Newcastle Coal Traffic Locomotives

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 13

Sir,—Now that the first of the sixty new locomotives has been finished at the Clyde Engineering Works, the time seems fitting to bring under notice the condition of…

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Can Copper Become Gold?

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 5

Professor Ramany doesn't say he has found the philosopher's stone, but some of his admirers believe he has. That he thinks there is a chance of the discovery…

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Our Mining Industry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 5

The Australian mining industry does not always get its place. Perhaps in the great cities it never does. Unlike agriculture, mining is carried on in both the…

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Work at the Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 May 1907 · page 4

Another good fortnight was experienced at the mines in the Newcastle and Maitland districts for the term ended on Saturday. Fifteen pits worked full time, and…

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Coal Trimmers Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 May 1907 · page 5

A meeting of the Newcastle Coal Trimmers' Union was hold in the Union Hall, on the Dyke, yesterday forenoon, to receive and deal with the report from the…

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Rand Mining Trouble. Arbitration Proposed. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 May 1907 · page 5

The miners that came out on strike from several of the mines on the Rand have offered to submit their grievances to arbitration…

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Cardiff. Colliery Developments

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 May 1907 · page 3

There are at present signs of great activity and progress in connection with the collieries in Cardiff. The work of development at Hartley Hill is being…

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Newcastle Coal-trimmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 May 1907 · page 5

The decision of the Newcastle Coal Trimmers' Union in rejecting the principal proposals agreed to at the recent conference with representatives of the…

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Colliery Fatality. Verdict of Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 May 1907 · page 5

An inquest was bold at the Minmi Courthouse yesterday by Mr. C. Hibble, district, coroner, into the death of William Strang, who was fatally injured in Brown's…

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Immigration Question. Importing Coal-miners. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 May 1907 · page 4

Reports received from England by the last mail show that a number of agencies are being brought into operation in different parts of Great Britain with the…

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Abermain Colliery. Work Resumed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 May 1907 · page 5

A satisfactory settlement has been arrived at between the employers and the employees of Abermain Colliery and work has been resumed by the machine…

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Aberdare Colliery. Apology and Explanation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 May 1907 · page 6

A NUMBER of complaints have recently bean made at the Aberdare Colliery about the pilfering of tokens. With a view of catching the culprit, a trap was…

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Victorian Coal Contracts. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 May 1907 · page 5

At the State Cabinet meeting to-day, it was decided to grant all the Victorian coal companies 6d per ton in addition to the price previously offered for the…

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Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 May 1907 · page 7

The Glebe Minors' Lodge met on Monday evening. There was a good attendance, and Mr. Rees Powell presided. Mr. W. Rouse wrote thanking the members of the…

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Importation of Miners. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 May 1907 · page 5

Inquiries made in Sydney to-day by a representative of the "Newcastle Morning Herald" e[?]cited information which leads to the assumption that steps have…

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The Ballarat Mining Difficulty. Ballarat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 May 1907 · page 5

The Mineowners' Association met to-night. It is understood that some concessions were agreed to, such as six-hour shifts in temperatures above 80 degrees,…

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Mining Disaster. Two Men Killed. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 May 1907 · page 5

A shocking accident occurred shortly after midnight on Tuesday at the Adelaide Reef Mine, Eganstown, near Daylesford. Sinking operations were going on, and…

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