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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1914

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Sunk by Their Own Mine. an Austrian Steamship. Trieste

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 August 1914 · page 5

The Austrian-Lloyd steamship Baron Gautsch from Lusingrande, struck a mine in the Adriatic. Twenty bodles have been already recovered…

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Minmi Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 August 1914 · page 5

Mr. John Brown, of the firm of Messrs. J. and A. Brown, proprietors of the Back Creek and Duckenfield Collieries, Minmi, last week asked representatives of the…

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SEAHAM No. 2 MINERS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 August 1914 · page 3

A special meeting of the Seaham No. 2 Miners' Lodge was held in the Federal Hall, West Wallsend, Friday evening, Mr. J. Hackett, who presided, stated that…

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The Mining Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 August 1914 · page 11

Sir,—"Loyal Citizen" is again erring It his statement. Does he think that men get up meetings and speak, without first taking the text and context, and…

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Japanese Coal for Australia. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 August 1914 · page 4

A big firm of Japanese coal merchants is looking for tramp vessels to charter for the transportation of coal to Australian ports, according to reports…

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Mining Matters. Resumption at Wallarah

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 August 1914 · page 4

Work was resumed at Wallargh Colliery, Catherine Hill Bay, on Monday, after a stoppage for about ten days. The stoppage was duo to a long stanaing…

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Hebburn Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 August 1914 · page 5

A largely attended meeting of the Hebburn miners was held at Weston yesterday. A letter was received from the Maitland Retail Grocers Association,…

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Whitburn Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 August 1914 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the Whitburn miners was held on Tuesday at Greta. Owing to the chairman being at work elsewhere, and this being equivalent to a…

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Newfoundland Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 August 1914 · page 6

Newfoundland possesses a unique and inexhaustible supply of red hematite from ore, of which a million tons are exported annually. At present most of the ore is…

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Mining Matters. Meeting of Delegate Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 August 1914 · page 4

A special meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held at the Oddfellows' Hail, Newcastle, yesterday. Mr. D. Watson,…

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Colliery Inspection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 August 1914 · page 6

Wallarah Colliery.—Mr. J. Barnett and Mr. C. I. Hall inspected the band E tunnels, and found as follows:—B tunnel: No. 1 split, intake 31,680ft per min.;…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 August 1914 · page 3

The Wallsend Miners' Lodge met on Wednesday evening, Mr. T. Richardson presiding. A motion was moved to rescind a…

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Northern Miners. Interim Injunction Granted. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 August 1914 · page 5

In the Industrial Court this afternoon, Mr. A. J. Kelynack (instructed by Mr. S. E. Cook, agent for Messrs. Sparke and Millard, of Newcastle), made an ex-partic…

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In and About the Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 August 1914 · page 4

Information of a reassuring nature relative to the supply of explosives for mining purposes was vouchsafed yesterday by Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., as…

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Northern Miners. the Interim Injunction. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 August 1914 · page 4

The application for the interim injunction granted by Mr. Justice Heydon on Friday, against members of the Colliery Employees Federation, was based on a…

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Admiralty Warning. Scattering of Mines. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 August 1914 · page 5

The Admiralty warns neutral Powers that the Germans continue to scatter mined indiscriminately, which practice does not conform to the conditions laid…

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Lure of Gold. Early Expeditions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 August 1914 · page 6

The search for gold in the new world has furnished writers of many countries, for several centuries, with ample materilal for accounts of the…

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Britain's Gold Supply. North Sea Trade Resuming. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 August 1914 · page 5

Since the, last bank return over three and a-half millions in gold has been paid in to the Bank of England. The "Evening News" states that the…

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Coal-filling at Pelaw-main

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 August 1914 · page 4

Mr. D. Shaw, the secretary to the Colliery Officials' Association, South Maitland district, writes:—"On behalf of the Colliery Officials' Association of the South…

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Mining Matters. Delegate Board Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 August 1914 · page 4

A special meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held at the Oddfellows' Hall, Newcastle, yesterday, to deal with the…

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