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Mining & the mines, 1900

5,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 72 of 250

Her Majesty's Navy and New Zealand Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 5

Mr. Reeves, the Agent-General for New Zealand, writes to "The Times": -- "During the discussion, the other clay, of the Naval Estimates in the House of Commons, the…

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The Fatality at South Broken Hill Mine. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 4

The coronor, Mr. T. Hall, J.P., held an inquest this afternoon into the death of James Dormthorne Leggue, who was killed yesterday afternoon by a fall of earth in the South mine. Mr. J. R. Edwar is…

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The Mines at Kimberley. Saving Diamonds During the Siege. London, April 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 7

Mr. Day, the manager for Mr. Frank Smith (owner of a diamond mine at Barkly West, and recently captured by the Boers), saved diamonds and documents…

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The Dudley Colliery

Evening News · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—The Dudley Colliery, which, since being re-opened after the late disastrous explosion, the caused so much irritation to the union miners, the at last fallen into rank with the Colliery Employees" Federation and,…

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Colliery Employees Federation

Evening News · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.-A meeting of the; Colliery Employees' Federation was held at the Trades Hall, Hunter-street' West, to-day, when there was a full attendance of delegates. The chief business before the meeting up…

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The Southern Collieries. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 3

Mr. Vickery, having asked the provincial council to state the points re the South Bulli dispute which the miners wished to refer to arbitration, has been informed that the points were in relation to the…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 9

Upon the re-opening of the Stock Exchange yesterday after the holidays there was not much animation shown in the mining market, and the turnover was small. West Australian companies opened decidedly firmer than they…

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The Coal Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 6

The barque Inca arrived to-day from Monte Video to load a cargo of coal from the Hetton colliery for Valparaiso. The schooner Tames Ralph cleared at the Custom-house for the Hawaiian Isles with 950…

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The Small Coal Question

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 6

The difficulty of determining how miners are to be paid for getting small coal under the new system of weighing all the mineral is cropping up again in rather an a[?]avated form at Newcastle. At yesterday's meeting…

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Charters FROM 1st April. Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 3

Aigburth, sh, Newcastle to West Coast Antarctic, bq, Newcastle to West Coast— Coal; thence to U. K. or Continent Australia, sh, Newcastle to West Coast—…

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Late Mining. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 5

At the Great Boulder Perseverance the oxidised section of the reduction plant will begin crushing at a much [?]her date than that fixed for the completion of the plant as a whole…

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Newcastle. the Coal-weighing Provisions. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 6

In the Summons Division of the Wallsend Police Court, before Mr. C. H. Payten, S.M., to-day, William Humble, one of the Government colliery inspectors, proceeded against Thomas Croudace, general…

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The Miners' Delegate Board. Alleged Evasion of Weighing Clause

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 6

The quarterly meeting of the Miners' Delegate Board—the executive authcrity of the Colliery Employees' Association—was held at the Trades' Hall to-day. The proceedings, which lasted from 10 a.m. to 4…

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Miners' Delegate Board. a Difference at West Wallsend and Seaham

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 6

The quarterly meeting of the delegates to the Colliery Employees' Federation was held yesterday, at the Trades-hall. Mr. William Bower, the president, occupied the chair, and there were also present, Mr. John M'Fadyen,…

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Mining Prosecution. The Weighing Clauses. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 6

At the Wallsend Police Court to-day Messrs. Thomas Croudace, general manager, and Prank, Croudace, mining manager, of the Scottish Australian Mining Co., were charged…

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West Australian Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 6

KALGOORLIE. Thursday.--Last night a social was tendered by the Mining Managers Association to their first president, Captain Dick, who has just returned after a tri[?] in search of health. Nearly 40 mine managers were…

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Coal Creek Mining Dispute

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 9

The dispute between the miners and management of the Coal Creek Proprietary Company has been settled on a basis satisfactory to both parties. Mr. D. Watkins, M.P., of New South…

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The Coal Trade. Matters at Newcastle. the Southern Collieries

Evening News · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Friday.—A meeting of the Stockton miners was held last night, at which Mr. J. Bower, the president of the Colliery Employees' Federation, was present, and pointed out that the…

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The Austral Gold Mining Company

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 41

This company is working a lode on tribute, and is under the management of Mr. W. C. Ovington, one of the tributors. This lode was worked by Mr. Ovington twenty years, ago. It has a…

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Mining

Evening News · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 3

STEWART'S BROOK, Thursday.—The field continues dull. Nothing of importance has been struck since last report The. Standard has finished the mullock stopes the last 155 loads…

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