Price of Coal
Mr. Shinwell, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Mines, after a conference with lending coal merchants, gave them a series of questions relating…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1924
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Outside the Pale Labor Assembly Unconstitutional A.I.P. Throws a Bomb The Sequel May be a Split Among the Miners
The A.L.P. committee has bombed the newly-constituted Northern District Labor Assembly, having declared it unconstitutional. Its secretary, Mr. Edwards, has been the object of a concentrated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Colliery
On November 5, 1858, a meeting of Sydney business men was held at an office in Terry's Buildings, Pitt-street, Sydney, to consider a proposal to form a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jesmond Colliery
In March, 1909, Mr. A. E. Taylor, assisted by Mr. James Sheldon, commenced operations to develop the Jesmond colliery. A tunnel was driven from a site in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Elermore Tunnel Colliery
The Wallsend Tunnel, known as the No. 1 tunnel, to distinguish it from the "Willis," or No. 2 tunnel, had been closed for six months or more, when it was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Co-operative Colliery
Few coal mines have had such an eventful history as the Co-operative Colliery. As its names implies, it was originally held by a party of miners working…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Elermore Vale Colliery
The Elermore Vale Colliery, at which coal production ceased on June 18, 1923, was originally the Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company's "A" Pit, and was the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brookstown, Summerhill and Maryland Collieries
The Brookstown, Summerhill, and Maryland collieries, which are no longer in operation, were owned by the late Mr. Andrew Speddon, and worked by him…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Northern Miners
There will be a general resumption of work at the collieries in the northern district this morning. In the course of a statement yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining District Hospital
The Wallsend Mining District Hospital was officially opened by Mr. John Kidd, Postmaster-General, on April 21, 1893, the event being described as one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Purified Coal and Coke Company
In 1876 a partnership was formed mainly between, the late Mr. Peter Langwill and the late Mr. Elward Taylor, for the purpose of washing small coal and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →900 Men Idle Wheelers' Troubles Mine Stoppages
There was trouble at Aberdare and Killingworth mines this morning, which was the cause of 300 men being out of work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Shortage Many Idle Mines Shipping Delays Pelton Resumption
"I fancy the miners are infected with holiday[?]tis," was the way a prominent colliery manager endeavored to account for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Federation
As a result of a notice of motion which emanated from one of the lodges, declaring that Anzac Day be a holiday, and this having been affirmed by the northern…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Lamps
Considerable attention has during recent years been directed to the problem of adequate illumination for miners when at work. Eyestrain is recognised…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Northern Mines
The report of the Northern Collieries' Association yesterday stated:—"Ducken-field No. 2, Co-operative, Lambton, Cessnock, Northern Extended,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Imported Coal
A commencement was made yesterday with the unloading of the cargo of Welsh coal from the steamer David Lloyd George, which is berthed at the Sulphide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Collieries Some Pits Now Closed Big Output Once
Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company commenced to work the Borehole seam at Wallsend shortly after its formation. A railway was opened…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hidden Gold. a Fatal Lure
Of all the stories that have been told of hidden treasure and secret booty, of gold and silver, jewels, diamonds, and specie stored away whore the eyes of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining Exchange LONDON
Mining exchange sales to-day included:— Mount Eliott, 2s 7d, 3s; North Broken Hill, 69s 4d, 70s; Mount Lyall,…
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