Coal and Other Exports
The following vessels were cleared at the Newcastle Customs-house to-day:—Mindini, s, for Papua, via Sydney, with 500 tons bunkers; Yarra, s, for Port Adelaide, via…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Mining & the mines, 1913
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Restless Miners. Massed Meeting Called
NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- The situation on the Maitland coal fields is causing some uneasiness here, it being feared that another coal strike is threatened…
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The mill of the Harden gold mine last week ran 32 hours, crushing 65 tons. There were cyanided 60 tons of sands of an assay value of 10.9s per ton. The electric pump has been…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →New Zealand Gold Export
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday. -- The export of gold from the Dominion for December totalled 16,185oz., valued at £64,064. That brings the total output for the year to 343,165oz., valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Turkish Ships Want Coal. London
The want of coal makes it unlikely that the Turkish squadron will be able to remain at sea for any length of time…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trader Strikes a Mine. Constantinople. Friday Evening
The Ottoman sailing vessel Theodorus, bound from Dikeil to Velona with cargo, was accidentally blown up at the entrance to Suezans Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Power of Capitalism. Remarks by Miners' Representative
The president of the Colliery Employees' Federation in speaking to-day about the statement made by Mr. John Brown at the annual regatta luncheon, said that the power of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Exonerated. Secretary James Russell. Southern Collieries Trouble. Royal Commissioner's Report. His Honor's Findings
The Royal Commission which inquired late the dismissal of James Russell from the Mount Kemble, Colliery has completed its work, and this afternoon Judge Scholes issued his report…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle. Afternoon Shift Question. Maitland Miners Confer. Newcastle
Several of the coal mines in the Maitland district will be idle on Monday next. A resolution has been passed by a conference of delegates from the miners' lodges of the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Southern Coal Trade. a Brisk Year. Wollongong
NOW that the miners have resumed employment after the Christmas holidays, work at the collieries is again of a brisk nature. For current pay Corrimal has eight and South…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Conservation of Heat Energy in the Coal Pile
Electrical engineering is constantly at work seeking to transform the largest possible percentage of the total available heat energy in coal into electrical energy and to this end has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining in the State. Hillgrove
The superintendent of the Baker's Creek gold mine reports for the month ending December 31:—"In the north end, No. 11 level, the drive on the middle reef was advanced…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Mining. Stock Exchange Resumes on
The Sydney Stock Exchange will resume operations on Monday morning, after adjourning over the Christmas and New Year holidays, and the impression prevails…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Mr. Bowling Absent. Wages Board Held Up. Balmain Miners' Troubles
A meeting of the Coal Mining (South Wages Board to consider an application made by the topmen employed in the Sydney Harbor Clolliery, Balmain, was held at Ocean House…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Upheaval. Threatened in the South. an Appeal to the Minister. Mr. Carmichael Reticent
The industrial outlook on the southern coalfield is anything but reassuring. Yesterday morning representatives of the Southern Miners' Federation arrived in Sydney, and had an…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Miners to Meet. Trouble at Maitland. Three Thousand Affected. Newcastle
Considerable uneasiness is felt in business circles to-day consequence of the decision of the Maitland miners to stop ten big collieries on Monday, in order to hold an…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Maitland Miners Restive. Aggregate Meeting Fixed. Question of Afternoon Shift. West Maitland
The decision of the Miners' Conference at Weston to hold an aggregate meeting on Monday is an open violation of the Colliery Employees' Federation Constitution…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A While Ago Stories told by J.H.M. Abbott. at the Coal River
[Author's Nets.—Although in these articles the incidents described actually took place in New described actually took place in New South Wales in the early part of the last century, it has been considered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nine Hours Working Day. Crafty Labor Politicians. How a Labor Government Appeases Angry Miners. Sham Legislation passed by Assembly and killed by Council. Labor Nominees absent
In the coal-mining industry of the State there are about 12,000 men and youths employed. The wheelers, who are mostly youths, work 9 hours a day. In other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Little Astor's Gold Mine
On the petition of Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, Surrogate Fowler has ordered that she be paid only £2000 in the, next three years for the support of her child, John Jacob Astor, the…
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