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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1911

1,195 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 60

Pelaw-main Miners. the Cavils Drawn

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 6

The Pelaw-Main miners were engaged during the greater part of yesterday in discussing the position, and eventually, after a deputation bad interviewed the…

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The Late Mining Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 3

Sir,—A copy of your paper of March 25th has reached me, and I notice from it that Peter Bowling and the other manly but ill-advised strike leaders are…

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Mining Laws. Proposed Amendments. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 6

Mr. Edden, the Minister for Mines, is working at high pressure, in order to get a number of mining bills ready for submission to Parliament…

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United South Africa. Immigration and Mining. Capetown

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 5

Mr. J. C. Smuts, the South African Minister for the Interior, speaking in the Legislative Assembly, said that too much was made of the education…

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State Gold Mine. Robbed in Hungary. Vienna

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 April 1911 · page 5

The Hungarian State goldmine at Veresviz is been visited by robbers, who entered a disused shaft and concealed themselves in the mine…

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The Late Mining Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 April 1911 · page 7

Sir,—I desire to reply to Mr. E. J. Bowling's loteter, which appeared in your issue of Saturday, seeing that he has not solved the problems of that memorable…

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Canadian Miners' Strike. Government to Intervene. Ottawa

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 April 1911 · page 5

The Canadian Government allows the miners who are on strike in British Columbia and Alberta until Monday to settle their differences with their…

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Mining Matters. Coalmines Regulation Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 April 1911 · page 4

The executive of the Colliery Employees' Federation has forwarded to the Minister for Mines the following suggestions, that they may be considered a…

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Mining Disasters. Many Lives Lost. Fire and Black Damp. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 April 1911 · page 5

An explosion has occured in a mile at Throop, in Pennsylvania, by which 74 men lost their lives. A fire, which followed the explosion,…

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Coal Shippers' Board. the Award

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 April 1911 · page 4

The Waterside Workers (Newcastle Coal Shippers') Board has given its award in regard to the wages and conditions that shall obtain in the shipping of coal…

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Coal Unsalable

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 9

In a despatch to Lord Hobart, at the end of 1804, Governor King referred to the difficulty in finding a market for the coal produced at Newcastle. He said:—…

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Canadian Colliery Strike. Compulsory Arbitration. Ottawa

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 5

The Western Canada coalmine owners who are affected by the strike at Crow's Nest have informed the Labour Department that they welcome…

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Mining Matters. Pelaw-main Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 5

The trouble at Pelaw-Main Colliery regarding the cavilling for tops has not been settled. The colliery horses were sent down to the paddocks at Minmi…

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Maitland Mining District. to Theatrical Managers and Others

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 11

The "Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate" is the only Dally Newspaper circulating extensively throughout the whole…

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Maitland Mining District. to Theatrical Managers and Others

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 April 1911 · page 6

The "Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate" is the only Daily Newspaper circulating extensively throughout the whole…

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Minmi Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 6

The Back Crack and Duckenfield miners met in Pool's Hall on Monday, evening, Mr W. Dove presiding. The delegate, Mr. W. Muir, road and…

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The Coal Vend. Federal Action. an Alleged Combine. Restraint of Trade. Commonwealth Charges. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 5

The long-deferred hearing of the Commonwealth prosecutions against what is known as the Coal Vend and the Associated Steamship Companies wan entered…

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Some West Coast Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 4

At Waluta, a township on the West Coast of the South Inland, near which the Blackwater gold mines are situated some rather weird customs prevall. The…

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Miners' Insurance. Results in Germany

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 5

In an article in the "Engineering and Mining Journal," Mr. Frederick L. Hoffmann, statistician of the Prudential Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey,…

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Empire Tin Resources. the Tasmanian Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 3

The colonial section of the London Society of Arts has secured a series of papers upon the "Commercial Products of the Empire." The last paper of the…

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