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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1913

1,085 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 55

Muswellbrook Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 July 1913 · page 5

Some dissatisfaction exists among the men working in the Muswellbrook mine owing to five or six of the employees having received notices from the…

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Victorian Coal Deposits

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 July 1913 · page 4

In connection with the work of the Victorian Mines Department for testing the brown coal deposits of that State, is reported that the bore now being…

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Junction North Mine. Management Vindicated. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 July 1913 · page 4

An agitation to remove two of the directors in the Junction North Mine, which is being festered by certain of the shareholders in Melbourne, seems to be…

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Mining Matters. Borehole and Lambton B.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 July 1913 · page 4

The executive of the Colliery Employees' Federation, as well as the general body of the miners in the northern district, are still waiting, with all the…

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Colliery Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 July 1913 · page 5

A miner named James Morrow was killed by a fall of coal at the Wallsend Colliery at about half past nine o'clock last night…

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Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 July 1913 · page 3

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

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Victorian Mine Idle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 July 1913 · page 4

The Jumbunna coalmine in Victoria was idle on Monday, owing to the employees having refused to go to work. It appears that at the last civil certain…

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Mining Matters. the Newcastle Board. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 July 1913 · page 4

The appointment of a chairman for the Newcastle Miners' Board has not yet been made, but inquiries made to-day [?]licited the Information that Judge…

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Coal Trade in the East

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 July 1913 · page 5

The following is a copy of a letter which Mr. Edden, the Minister for Mines, has received from Mr. Suitor, the New South Wales Commercial Commissioner…

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Newcastle-wallsend Coal Co. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 July 1913 · page 5

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company was held to-day at the company's offices. Mr. Harry S. Levy,…

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Mining Matters. the Wages Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 July 1913 · page 5

In a special issue of the Government Gazette" this evening it was announced that His Honor Judge Edmunds had been appointed as chairman of the Coal Mining…

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Counterfeit Coin. Gold and Silver. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 July 1913 · page 5

All the banks in Melbourne report that there is a large quantity of countorfelt coin, chiefly sovereigns and fiorins, in circulation…

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Colliery Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 July 1913 · page 7

Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner, opened an inquest at Catherine Hill Bay on Thursday into the death of James Morrow, a miner, who was fatally injured…

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Mining Matters. Stoppage at Killingworth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 July 1913 · page 4

Owing to a dispute concerning the did question, yesterday morning, the miners in the Killingworth Colliery stopped work. It is stated that the custom is…

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American Miners. Situation Critical. Calumet (Michigan)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 July 1913 · page 5

Thirty thousand copper miners, are idle as a consequence of the strikes in the Lansing district. Several riots of a miner nature took…

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Mining Matters. the Wages Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 July 1913 · page 4

The commencement of proceedings in connection with the wages board for the coal-mining industry of the northern district in Newcastle to-morrow morning…

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The Rand Mines. Owners Terms Refused. Another Strike Possible. Johannesburg

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 July 1913 · page 5

The Johannesburg Trades' Federation has resolved to present its demands again to the South African Government respecting condition in…

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The Philippines. Coal Requirements. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 July 1913 · page 6

Mr. Holman, the Stale Premier, has received a communication from the Commercial Commissioner for New South Wales in the East regarding a contract…

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Scattered Gold. Occurrence in Paris. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 July 1913 · page 5

A carriage containing £120,000 in gold, was overturned through a collision with a tramcar in the Boulevard Sebastopol, and the money was…

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Mining Matters. a Senator's Charges. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 July 1913 · page 5

In January last Senator M'Dougall was reported in the Sydney papers as having made a series of charges against the administration of the Mines Department,…

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