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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1910

1,356 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 41 of 68

Killingworth Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 6

A special meeting of the Killingworth Miners' Lodge was held last week, and was well attended, Mr. C. Faith in the chair…

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Miners' Risks. Two Fatalities at Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 4

Two fatal accidents occurred in the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company's Colliery at Wallsend yesterday. The victim of the first fatality was…

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Coal Mine Explosions. How They Are Caused

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 16

While the Empire still mourned the death of our great Kling Edward VII., we wore shocked by the news of another of those deplorable colliery explosions…

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Miners' Wages Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 7

Sir,—Your leader in the issue of yesterday morning's "Herald," under the heading of "Miners' Wages Board," has been written under a misapprehension of the…

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Miners and Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 7

Sir,—Referring to Mr. Niland's statement that the Tarro Shire engineer, Mr. Ferry, had told him and Councillor H. W. Towns that the road, leading to my place…

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Factories and Mines. Labour Advisers. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 5

The "Standard" says that in the autumn Mr. Winston Churchill, the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, will appoint two labour advisers for…

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Mining Matters. Work at the Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 July 1910 · page 4

The deputation from the Colliery Employees' Federation to the Premier, to request that Mr. J. Paterson be removed from has seat on the Miners' Wages…

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Powlett River Mine. Scale of Hewing Rates. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 July 1910 · page 5

Mr. G. H. Broome, the general manager of the State coalmines, has recommended the following scale for hewing rates to be paid at the State coalmines. Mr…

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Greta Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1910 · page 5

Meetings were held on the Greta Park on Sunday morning by the Ebbw-Mata and Whitburn miners, Mr. J. Redgrave presiding at the former, and Mr. J…

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Durham Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1910 · page 5

A special meeting of Durham Miners' Lodge was held last night at Hogg's Hotel, Adamstown, Mr. T. Sheedy presiding…

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Stanford-merthyr Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1910 · page 6

Mr. H. Gunther presided over a special meeting of the Stanford-Merthyr Miners' Lodge, when there was a good attendance. A letter was received from…

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American Coal Land. Reserved for the Nation. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1910 · page 5

President Taft, in furtherance of ex-President Roosevelt's policy of conservation, has withdrawn for the nation 35,000,000 acres of the…

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Miners and Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 July 1910 · page 3

Sir,—My attention having been drawn to a letter in Saturday's issue, in which Councillor Ayerst gives an account of a meeting at the Tarro Shire Office, said to…

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Merewether. Sea Pit Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 July 1910 · page 5

The Sea Pit miners held a special meeting on Monday evening in Cegan's Hotel. Mr. H. Oxley presiding. The whole of the delegate minutes, with the exception of…

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Commercial News. Copper and Mining Scrip. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 July 1910 · page 5

The closing price of copper yesterday was £53 10s per ton. The wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,670,000 quarters,…

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Canadian Coal Strike. Eviction of the Men. Troops Preserve Order. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 July 1910 · page 5

Five hundred strike-breakers are effecting evictions from houses belonging to the Cumberland Railway and Coal Company at Spring Hill; in…

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Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1910 · page 7

The quarterly meeting of the Glebe miners was held in Simpson's Hall, Merewether, on Monday evening. Mr. J. Lloyd in the chair…

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Our Sydney Letter. a Suffragette on the Platform.—the Brotherliness of the Coal Miner.—diphtheria and the Ambulance.—mr. Fisher's Paper Money.—the Fight and the Picture Show.—a Thing That Calls for Inspection. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1910 · page 5

Miss Matters has given her first lecture. It was not as largely attended as it might have been, but then, as the lectures said we have general suffrage in…

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Cobar Gold Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 July 1910 · page 5

The shareholders of the Cobar Goldmines have confirmed the sale of the property to be Great Cobar, Limited…

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The Centenary Coal Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 July 1910 · page 6

Sir,—I noticed in a late copy of your journal a report of the Miners' Federation Buard at Newcastle, stating: "That it was decided not to reduce the bowing…

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