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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1908

1,028 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 52

Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 April 1908 · page 5

The Wallsend miners met at the school of arts on Friday evening. Mr. T. Richardson presided, the attendance being fairly good…

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The Rand Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 April 1908 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—Mineowners on the Rand have offered, as an experiment, to take 400 unemployed whites for unskilled labour, either…

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Mining Situation. Extension of Commission. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 April 1908 · page 4

Messrs. Forsyth and Bowling conferred with Judge Heydon yesterday in reference to the question of the reopening at Newcastle of the Court of inquiry into…

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Colliery Engine-drivers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1908 · page 5

A meeting of the New South Wales Colliery Engine Drivers' Association was held at the Oxford Hotel, Newcastle, on Saturday evening when there was a…

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District News Cardiff. Colliery Development

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1908 · page 3

In view of the opening up of the Lymington Colliery, Cardiff can claim to be a control of increasing industry. When the Lymington shaft was sunk many years…

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Mining Situation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1908 · page 5

The minutes of the committee of management of the Colliery Employees' Federation containing the motion in favour of a ballot upon the resolutions passed on…

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State Gold Yield. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1908 · page 4

The return furnished by the Undersecretary for Mines shows that the gold yield recorded for the State for the month of March is 26,187 ounces crude,…

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Caledonian Coal Company. Obtains a Rule Nisi. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1908 · page 6

In Chambers, before Mr. Justice Pring, on Saturday the Caledonian Coal Company. Limited, moved for a rule nisi for a prohibition to restrain the Shore…

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Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 April 1908 · page 5

A special meeting of the Glebe Miners' Lodge was held, in Simpson's Hall on Monday evening. Mr. R. Powell presiding. A letter of thanks for a donation of…

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Shortland Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1908 · page 5

A special meeting of the Shortland miners was held last evening, for the purpose of hearing the report of the deputation that waited on the colliery manager,…

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Wallarah Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1908 · page 6

The quarterly meeting of the Wallarah miners was held on Saturday evening, Mr. John Bassett in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting…

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Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1908 · page 5

A meeting of the Co-operative Miners' Lodge was held on Tuesday evening at Shaw's Hotel, Plattsburg, Mr. R. Brown presiding…

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The Mining Difficulties

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1908 · page 4

The decisions of the Globe Miners' Lodge on the question of ballots are of a somewhat inexplicable character. At the same meeting they rejected the…

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Seaham Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 April 1908 · page 4

A special meeting of the Seaham miners Was held on Wednesday evening, when Mr. W. Brownlee presided. Mr. J. Patterson read and explained…

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The Mining Situation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 April 1908 · page 6

Sir,—We, as miners, have been earnestly fighting for the last forty years to obtain a court of conciliation and arbitration, a court that gave equal representation to…

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Mining Matters. Proposed Ballot. Rejection at Hetton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 April 1908 · page 4

A special meeting of the members of the Hetton Ledge was held last night, at the lodge room, Wickham, Mr. John Cusick, chairman, presided. There was a…

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West Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1908 · page 2

A special meeting of the West Wallsend miners was held on Thursday evening, Mr. J. Wright presided, Mr. P. Bowling (president), Mr. J. M'Williams…

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Immigration of Miners. Discussion in Parliament. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1908 · page 4

A discussion took place in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon on a question of immigration. Mr. Edden asked if the Premier were…

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Colliery Explosion. Miners Suffocated. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 April 1908 · page 5

Eleven lives have been sacrificed by an explosion at Norton Hill Colliery, in Somersetshire. At the time of the disaster 38 men…

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Shortland Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 April 1908 · page 3

Sir,—With reference to a paragraph appearing in your issue of Saturday in regard to the difficulty at the Shortland Colliery in respect to wages, I would like…

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