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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
2,174 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 51 of 109
An inquest at Frome revealed a shocking underground mining tragedy, a collier committing suicide because he accidentally killed his mate by a blast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In giving his decision in a case in the Newcastle District Court last week, his Honor Judge Hamilton stated, in regard to compensation, that something…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The statement that the council of the mining section of the Workers' Industrial Union of Australia is likely to meet shortly gives rise to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Canadian geologists of the Ottawa Department of Mines, who spent tour months last summer in the counties of Temiscamingue and Abitibi, doing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. J. M. Haddeley, M.P., representative of the northern miners on the Commonwealth Coal Tribunal, stated on Saturday that he understood the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Owing to the cessation of operations at the Maitland collieries, the supply of coal to the steel works has been very intermittent, and sufficient coal has not been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Though there are no fresh developments in connection with the coal dispute, the position an far as coal supplies are concerned is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An immediate appeal is to be made to every trades union throughout Australia for financial assistance for the 8000 men who are idle on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. T. Hoare, president of the northern miners, on being interviewed yesterday, stated he would have something to say to-morrow to prove his oft-repeated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The discovery is reported of process for producing petrol from coal. If the report of the discovery of a process for producing petrol…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The local coal trade remains bright. Truck supplies during the week have been good. As the result full shifts have been worked at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A "Sun" representative while discussing the situation on the Maitland and Greta coalfields with a mine-owner, was informed that the miens would be re-opened shortly; but owing to some of the workings being out of repair through idleness and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Dusseldorf telegram states that the Court-martial at Werden sentenced five mining directors at present in unoccupied Germany to five years each and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Twenty-nine trucks of small coal have left Whitburn colliery aiding since Saturday, making 351 since work started, or approximately 2500 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There is at least one man in Maitland who feels the coal strike on the South Maitland field. He owns a cottage near Cessnock. and was receiving 25[?] a week…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A move was made to-day in Sydney which it is hoped will have the effect of bringing about a settlement of the trouble on the Maitland coalfield…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The State Government has decided to Interveno in regard to the coal-miners' strike on the Maitland Held…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Some time ago the Gold Mining Diamond Drill Company, of Melbourne, was entrusted with the work of boring for coal on territory between Redhead and Belmont. The result proved the existence, among other seams, of the Borehole seam of good…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The coal miners in the northern district are considered to have many grievances that call for speedy adjustment by at tribunal of some kind, apart from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A miner named Fotheringham met with an accident in Seaham No. 1 colliery yesterday. He was so far underground that it was too far to carry a stretcher, and…
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