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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1913

1,085 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 55

Maitland Mining District. to Theatrical Managers and Others

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1913 · page 3

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

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Mining Situation. Conference Again Suspended. Delegate Board to Meet

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

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

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Lambton B Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 March 1913 · page 4

A conference was held yesterday afternoon to discuss the difficulty at the Lambton B pit. The proprietors were represented by…

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Mining Action. Question of Ventilation. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 March 1913 · page 5

Judgment was delivered to-day by Mr. Justice Rich in the action between the Broken Hill Junction North Silver Mining Company. No Liability, and the Broken…

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Mining Situation. Delegate Board Me[?]ting. Reply to Mr. Ca[?]y

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 March 1913 · page 4

The delegate board will moat at the Trades Hall, Newcastle, this morning, when the situation created by the refusal of the colliery propriefornt to [?] the…

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State Gold-mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1913 · page 4

The visit of the State Minister for Mines to the Ardlethan field has been productive of one important result. This is a demand by the men who are…

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Deputation of Huntly Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1913 · page 2

In very different temper was another conference the same day—in, which a number of Huntly miners, introduced by Mr. Robertson, M.P. for Otaki,…

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Mine Disaster Recalled. Courrieres Hero's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1913 · page 14

Pruvost, who kept the little care at Mericourt, in the French Black Country, is dead (wrote the Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" on January 21)…

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The Gold Sovereign in India

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1913 · page 13

A recently-issued official report on the circulation of the gold sovereign in India will cause a good deal of astonishment to people who imagined that the Indian…

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Mining Situation. Delegate Board Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1913 · page 5

No change has taken place in regard to the mining situation since yesterday. The delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation sat for the greater…

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Mining Fatality. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1913 · page 5

Three miners—C. Wallace, J. Kett, and A. Rice—working in the North Mine, met their death this morning in a sensational manner. They were engaged in their…

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"Coal King." Mr. D. A. Thomas in America

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1913 · page 9

"Th British Coal King is here to bolster the Cambrian Combine," was the New York "Tribune's" heading this morning to an article discussing the reasons…

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Work at the Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 March 1913 · page 5

Slackness of trade has again materially affected the working of the collieries during the past fortnight. The only stoppages due to other causes are those…

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The Miners' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 March 1913 · page 3

Sir,—It is a feeling of pity that compels me to bring under the notice of the Colliery Employees' Federation the great loss sustained by its president, Mr…

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Mining Situation. Three Pits Idle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 March 1913 · page 5

There was no new development in regard to the mining situation yesterday and it is hardly likely that anything of importance will happen until the…

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Mining Fatality. Four Men Killed. Capetown

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 March 1913 · page 5

The fusing of an electric wire ignited he timbering at the Jagersfontein Mine. Four natives were suffocated, and…

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Mining Situation. Difficulties at Collieries. Lambton B Resumes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1913 · page 5

Nothing transpired yesterday to materially affect the mining situation, and no clue to possible developments Is likely to be given until ofter the adjourned…

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Shortland Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1913 · page 5

Messts Peters and Lewis, district officiers ofthe federation, visited the Shortland Colliery on Saturday evening, and had an interview with the manager with…

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Miners Entombed. Inrush of Water. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1913 · page 5

An inrush of wafer in the Townhead Mine, in Cumberland, entombed two miners. Food has been conveyed to the…

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Colliery Boards. Question of Amalgamation. Judge Heydon's Decision. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1913 · page 5

Mr. Justice Heydon, President of the Industrial Court, delievered his reserved judgment to-day in connection with the application by the Colliery Mechanics…

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