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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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Details of the reduction in Governmental charges on coal and coke in the Northern and Southern districts, to operate for 14 months, form June 2,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Several collieries on the South Maitland field were [?]gin idle to-day, owing to shipping not being available to unload the filled waggons. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Idle on Saturday due to the movements of the shipping, the three Aberdare Collieries will resume work this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Beyond endorsing a recommendation of the Combined Committee that the District executive should convene a rank and file conference on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eleven days constituted full time for the collieries in the Northern district for the fortnight, a shift having been lost owing to the holiday. In one or two instances…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Delegates to the Empire Press Conference to-day inspected Yorkshire's main colliery, the Doncaster, where each was presented with an electric torch in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A party of prospectors has discovered a rich reef of gold at Wire Gully, in the Orange district, and several washes have disclosed a very high assay…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Giving his opinion to-day of the proposed reduction to the southern and western miners, the treasurer of the Northern Miners' Federation (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A schedule for distribution of the 1810 tons of coal given to the poor of this district. by the Federal Government was made by the O.B.U…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The first of a series of meetings with the object of bringing about the formation of one union in the mining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is expected that the price of gas in Newcastle will be reduced soon as a result of the reduced cost of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →John C. Corns was charged, before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, with having committed a breach of the Coal Mines…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—In the '"Newcastle Morning Herald" of June 13, I notice a short letter regarding the inspection of mines. The writer mentions…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. O. Gavey, Secretary of the Waratah Distress Relief Committee, has announced that Government coal will be placed in Waratah railway siding for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Because of places not having got ready in time, the additional miners that were to have been included in another cavil for another part of the mine did not…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →More than 200 fully qualified prospectors are at present engaged searching for gold, and a further 300 are to be taken on to investigate reefs that have already been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great interest is being taken in tomorrow's meeting of the Southern Miners' Committee of Management as a decision will be reached whether the mines…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It was the discovery of gold that precipitated Australia into nationhood, and be better advertisement could be given to this country at this date than by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two families were rescued from flood waters at Wallasend by the police. The C pit is flooded, and it is likely that the employees will be laid idle for many months. In Nelson-street the water was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A conference took place in Newcastle yesterday between the representatives of the Miners' Federation and the Caledonian Collieries, Ltd…
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