Electricity in Mines. Commission Appointed. Sydney
Mr. Moore, the Minister for Mines, this afternoon announced the personnel of the commission which the Government has appointed to inquire regarding the use…
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Mining & the mines, 1907
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Record Coal Cargo
Messrs. Earn Bros. and Co., Ltd., yesterday despatched the steamer Valdivia to San Francisco with a record coal cargo for this port. The Valdivia was carrying 7976 tons of coal,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Price of Coal
The colliery proprietors yesterday decided that the selling price of coal for the ensuing year shall be raised from 10s to 11s per ton. This is a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Price of Coal. to Be Eleven Shillings
A full meeting of the Associated Colliery Proprietors was held at the offices of the association, Watt-street, yesterday. The principal business before the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Summons Division. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M.) Stealing Coal
Thomas Winterbine was summoned, on an information charging him with stealing 25lb of coal, valued at 6d, the property of the Chief Railway Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. Electricity in Mines
Mr. H. M. Williams, manager of Stanford-Merthyr Colliery, states in reference to the removal of the coal-cutting machines from the colliery, that their…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Sydney Letter. Mr. Carruthers' Resignation.—the Arduous Nature of a Premier's Duties.—"all Men Are Born Equal."—newcastle Can Feel for Sydney, and Vice Versa.—that Alleged Coal Vend.—why the "Franco-british" Exhibition? Sydney
The resignation of Mr. Carruthers came like a shock on Sydney to-day. Though it was known how ill he was to a few of his friends, it was not so…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Federation. Committee of Management
A meeting of the committee of management of the Northern Colliery Employees' Federation was held at the Trades Hall yesterday. Mr. P. Bowling,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gippsland Collieries. Melbourne
The select committee appointed by the State Parliament to inquire into the working conditions in the Gippsland mines sat at Jumbunna to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Wallsend Miners
The quarterly meeting of the West Wallsend Miners' Lodge was held on Thursday evening. Mr. J. Wright was in the chair, and there was a good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prospecting for Coal
During the past couple of years the State Government has been on the quivive to secure possession of coal-mining properties. The taking over of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Gold-buying Devices
Though the Government were asked to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the wild charges of gold-stealing made by the Rev. Mr. Worrall against the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Combines—shipping and Coal
A good deal has been heard here of late about the alleged shipping and coal combines. Whenever any federal member wants to start a discussion, he…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A Novel Gold Escort
Men of the fifties delight in telling the many expedients they had to resort to in the days, when Victoria, and, in fact, Australia, was young, in order to carry on…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →British Coal Market. Prices and Freights
The latest files from Wales show that high prices for coal were continuing to rule at the beginning of the fourth week of August…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. the Hewing Rate
The miners of the Newcastle and Maitland district are by no means satisfied with the action of the proprietors in raising the price of coal to 11s per ton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Electricity in Mines. Meeting of the Board. Sydney
The first meeting of the board appointed recently by the Government to inquire regarding the use of electricity in gaseous mines was held in Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Work at the Collieries
For the fortnight ended on Saturday, 29 collieries in the Newcastle and Maitland districts worked full time, and only four out of 38 worked less than 10¼ days. Trade…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Killingworth Miners
Mr. G. Russ presided at a special general meeting of the Killingworth Miners' Lodge. Correspondence was read from Ebbw…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Coal Vend
Mr. T. J. Burke writes:—"Messrs. Scott Fell and Co. have been taking up a lot of public attention lately with their complaints against certain acts of the coal…
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