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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1913

1,085 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 55

Abermain No. 2 Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 4

Messrs. E. Peters. W. Brennan and A. Lewis, district officers of the Colliery Employees' Federation, have arranged to visit the Abermain No. 2 mine this…

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Mining Situation. the Counter Proposals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 4

The returns indicating the decision of the various miners' lodges on the counter proposals prepared by the delegate board of the Colliery Employees'…

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Colliery Inspection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 7

The check inspectors made an inspection of South Seaham Colliery this month, and report as follows:—Barometer at surface, 29.98; temperature, 75 degrees;…

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Seaham Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 13

The monthly meeting of the Seaham No. 1 Miners' Lodge was held on Tuesday. Mr. A. Britt occupied the chair, and there was a good attendance…

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Victorian Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 4

The Victorian Minister for Mines has received a telegram from Mr. E. Kaishley, foreman of the Government drill at Outtrim, stating that in boring on the…

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West Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 13

The monthly meeting of the West Wallsend Miners' Lodge was held in the Federal Hall on Thursday evening. Mr. W. Ward, chairman, occupied the chair, and…

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Abermain N. 2 Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 4

Messrs. E. Peters and A. Lewis, the acting president and treasurer respectively of the Colliery Employees' Federation, visited the Abermain No. 2 mine…

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A Colliery Railway. Claim by Trustees. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 5

Mr. Justice Street, sitting in Equity jurisdiction to-day, bad before him an application by the Perpetual Trustee Company, acting on behalf of the estate of…

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Threatened Coal Strike. Non-unionist Trouble. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 5

The Rhymney colliers, Monmouthshire, have taken similar action to the Rhondda miners by tendering a month's notice that in April they…

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Mining Matters. Meeting of the Proprietors. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 4

A meeting of the Northern Colliery Properietors' Association was held in Sydney to-day. At the conclusion of the meeting. Mr. Isaac Chapman, the chairman,…

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Abbermain Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 5

Negotiations are being opened between the proprietors of the Abermain No. 1 Colliery and the miners' lodge with a view to arranging a working agreement…

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Oil and Coal Fuel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 7

Sir,—I will be obliged if you would correct a slight error in your otherwise very excellent report of my speech at the A.N.A. Congress on Friday night. I am…

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Mining Situation. Conference to Be Resumed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 5

Mr. E. Peters, acting president of the Colliery Employees' Federation, stated on Saturday that he had received a telephone message from Mr. A. R. Cant,…

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Mining Situation. Resumption of Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1913 · page 5

Matters mining circles yesterday were quiescent, all interest being centred in the resumption of the conference between representatives of the Colliery…

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The Minmi Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1913 · page 11

Sir,—The action of Back Creek and Duckenfield miners in signing a local agreement ladicates that they are fully prepared to sever their connection with…

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Shipping Coal Without Breakage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1913 · page 11

"J.S.R." writes: "It may interest those engaged in the coal trade to learn that a new method of loading coal into vessels has recently been installed at the…

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The Salt Mines of Cheshire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1913 · page 8

Prominent among the articles in the March "Windsor Magazine" is one which deals with the Salt Industry of Great Britain, and is accompanied by…

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Mining Situation. Conference Resumes To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1913 · page 4

The conference between representatives of the Colliery Employees' Federation, and of the Hunlter River District Colliery Proprietors Defence Association,…

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German Gold Famine. Stock Exchanges Affected. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1913 · page 5

The heavy selling of foreign stocks in Berlin in order to relieve the German gold famine is reacting unfavourably on the London Stock Exchange…

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Collieries Idle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1913 · page 4

The Stockton-Borehole Colliery was again idle yesterday, the miners having failed to come to terms with the management. The Lambton B mine also…

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