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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1907

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Hebburn Colliery. Work to Be Resumed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 December 1907 · page 5

A general meeting of the Hebburn miners was held at the King's Hall, Weston, on Saturday, to deal with the following minute, adopted on Friday at the meeting…

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Hunter Coal Measures. Professor David's Book

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 December 1907 · page 5

There has recently been issued by the Mines Department the first part of Professor David's work on "The Geology of the Hunter River Coal Measures," the…

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South Greta Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 6

Mr. T. W. Tester presided over a meeting of South Greta miners" at Walsh's Hotel, when a deputation presented a report of an interview with…

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Record Coal Traffic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 6

Every collery on the Maitland coalfield, except Hebburn, has worked full time for the past fortnight, and as a consequence there has been a record output. To-day…

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Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. Hebburn Colliery. Work Resumed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 6

In accordance with the decision arrived at on Saturday afternoon by the miners' lodge, work was resumed at Hebburn Colliery yesterday morning, after a…

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Another Mine Disaster. Many Lives Lost. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 December 1907 · page 5

Through an explosion at the Yolande mine, near Birmingham, in Alabama, ninety miners were entombed. Forty men groped their way to the…

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Mining Disputes. Commission at Work. Question of Cavilling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 December 1907 · page 4

The Royal Commission, consisting of Judge Heydon, president, Mr. H. S. Forsyth, representative of the colliery-owners, and Mr. P. Bowling, representative of…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 3

The adjourned meeting of the Wallsend Miners' Lodge was held in the school of arts on Monday evening. The attendance was only moderate. Mr. B. Rees in the…

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Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 3

The Glebe miners met in Simpson's Hall on Monday evening. Mr. R. Powell presided. The question of when the cavils will be drawn cropped up, and a deputation,…

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Burwood Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 2

A special meeting of the Burwood miners was held on Tuesday night at the Premier Hotel, Broadmeadow, Mr. A. Stewart in the chair…

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Alabama Mine Explosion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—It is estimated that 70 miners were killed by the explosion in the Yolande mine, in Alabama…

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Sea Pit Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 7

A special meeting of the above miners was held on Monday evening in Cogan's hotel, Mr. H. Oxley in the chair. Mr. Bower read and explained the…

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Mining Disputes. Commission at Work. Question of Cavilling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 4

The Royal Commission, consisting of Judge Heydon, president, Mr. H. S. Forsyth, representative of the colliery owners, and Mr. P. Bowling, representative…

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Morpeth Coal Appliances. Deputation to the Minister. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 5

A deputation comprising Messrs. Gillies and Brown, Ms.P., Alderman Hogan, Mayor of Morpeth; Alderman Waller, president of the Maitland district…

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Mining Disputes. Commission at Work. Question of Cavilling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 4

The Royal Commission, consisting of Judge Heydon, president, Mr. H. S. Forsyth, representative of the colliery owners, and Mr. P. Bowling, representative…

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Colliery Disaster. in a Pittsburg Mine. Many Men Entombed. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 5

Another terrible coal-mining disaster is reported from the United States. An explosion fired portion of the Pittsburg Coal Company's mine at…

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A Statue to Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 5

A tendency in first-class sculpture is to pourtray industry in homelike or true form. The world has had plenty of heroic statues, of war and warriors, and…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 5

The British mine will shut down all work in the mine and at the mill on Tuesday for a fortnight for the Christmas holidays. Milling work will not be resumed…

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Attempted Gold Robbery. Sensation on the Rand. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 5

Two officials of the Witwatersrand mine, who were conveying gold in a cab to Johannesburg, were pursued by two men on motors…

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Mining Disputes. Commission at Work. Question of Cavilling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 5

The Royal Commission, consisting of Judge Heydon, president, Mr. H. S. Forsyth, representative of the colliery owners, and Mr. P. Bowling, representative…

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