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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
2,068 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 104
On what is really the eve of the date set for the commencement of the general strike, a meeting of the Combined Mining Unions' Central Committee is being held to-day to discuss the intimation of Chief Judge Beeby, of the Federal Arbitration…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The British Contraband Control has detained five more Italian vessels laden with coal from Germany. This brings the total of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A winner at her last three starts. Gold Spark appears to be favorably placed in to-morrow's Rosehill Handicap. She has a substantial weight increase, but the Scintillation mare is against a weak field. Lord Valentine and The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Chief Judge of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court (Sir George Beeby) has offered to convene a compulsory conference on the coal dispute, if either side applied…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A new ambulance trolley has been placed in Lambton colliery, owned by the Broken Hill Pty. Company Ltd. It was constructed from a model designed by an…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The first sealing of a colliery on the Coalfields took place this morning, when stoppings were erected at Cessnock No. 2 mine…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two accidents occurred in Abermain No. 1 colliery yesterday. Robert Colvin, 56, a deputy, of Lismore-street, Abermain, was struck on the head by a prop…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Eight persons are known to have been killed, 98 others injured, and 57 are missing as the result of an explosion in an under-sea gallery at the Schwager…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Turkish Navy has been ordered to sweep a large number of floating Soviet mines, which have been discovered off Turkish ports on the Black…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Commonwealth Bank to-day fixed the price of gold lodged at the Mint yesterday at £10/13/3 an ounce fine. Sovereigns are £2/9/ each…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A survey of coal resources in the North for the maintenance of essential services indicates that coal reserves had been built up to provide for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The disclosure in American papers of the "non-magnetic girdle" around the hull of the liner Queen Elizabeth has led to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Emphasising the disastrous effect which a general coal hold-up might have on the war activities of the nation, the Premier (Mr. Mair) to-day made a last-minute appeal to both coal workers and colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The coal strike decision has become effective. "There will be no further production until the mine-workers' differences are settled satisfactorily"…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On the coalfields to-day, the sole topic was speculation of the duration of the stoppage. That many of the miners were hopeful of an early…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A primary industry against the background of an active secondary industry or at least what was an active secondary industry until to-day when the pits ceased work. A rural scene near Dudley pit with actually the only things in motion in the picture being the boy on the horse and the cows. Although the driver has a passenger in a most unconventional position a transport Department officer would be sure to look the other way if he saw them. A duel in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Officials of Hallway, Waterside and Maritime unions are conferring in Sydney to-day with the Combined Mining Unions' Central Committee, which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Newcastle cranes presented a busy scene to-day—the first of the coal strike—with long lines of waggons from the northern collieries aws[?]ing shipment. It will be "business as usual" at the cranes for a few days vet. Lifeboatmen wade through the surf to carry ashore some of the crew of a British steamer which had been bombed and machine-gunned by German airmen…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Canberra, Monday: Appealed to this afternoon to intervene in the coal dispute and call a round-table conference of the parties, the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On the eve of Herr von Ribbentrop's visit to Rome, the British Government announced its decision to release the 13 Italian ships and their cargoes of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →