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A conference between the Council of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce and the district Members of Parliament was held on Friday to consider the best means of securing…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →on Thursday, when the market opened after the Easter holidays, the news of the probable [?]mination of the Balkan War influenced the value of Australian mining securities dealt in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Miners' Federation has resolved to ask the transport workers to assist the miners of Belgium by preventing English coal from being exported…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The South Coast coal strike is now, in full swing, and both sides are preparing for an extended struggle. Pit horses are being turned out to grass, and some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It has been ascertained that the proposal for the adoption of a wages board by the Colliery Employees' Federation came from the Aberdare Lodge at Cessnock. This is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The atmosphere of the coal industry is still charged with electricity, and a storm is quits possible. The proprietors are sitting quiet, saying nothing, not even replying, officially to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A brisk fortnight was experienced at the collieries in the Newcastle and Maitland districts. Nineteen of the 37 mines worked nine days, which constituted full time owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The third attempt by the miners' delegate board to get the miners at the Back Creek and Duckenfield mines, at Minmi, to renounce their five years' agreement has been…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, Friday. Evening.--At a meeting of the Coal Mineral. Federation to-day, a motion was passed urging that the transport workers prevent coal from going into Belgium during…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Saturday.--Two miners named Hydne and M'Bride were killed at the Talisman mine through a steel rope breaking and precipitating a cage to the bottom of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The output of ore from the Hercules gold and silver mine (Tas.) for the week ended March 24 was 675 tons of sulphides to Zeehan, leaving 60 tons on hand in trucks and bins,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The figures showing the exports of coal for last week indicate that the foreign trade is exceptionally slack. Since March 20 there has not been one vessel for an oversea port…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Firmer London quotations for copper, and advances in copper scrip prices there, were responsible for a much better tone locally in that class of shares on the Sydney Exchange…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →WOLLONGONG, Sunday.--At 10 o'clock tonight it was learned that a meeting of the Mount Kembla miners had been to-day, the main business being to put before the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There is burled In India every year a sum of gold equal to amount taken yearly from the mines of South Africa. The African miners extract this treasure from the grip of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The miners' strike in the south has had a good effect on the coal trade in the Newcastle and Maitland districts. The average number of days worked during the past fortnight is…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Ivanhoe Gold Corporation has forwarded the following communication to the Chamber of Mines:—"In view of the estimates of ore reserves at 31 December, 1912, showing a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. Bowling has gone to Newcastle, and will probably address meetings in that district, soliciting funds; and Mr. Willis, president of the union, has also taken his…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →George Stancliffe, 60, was fatally injured at the South mine on Friday. He was oiling some machinery, and was accidentally knocked down by a chain. He fell among the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The corps of Submarine Miners, known officially as the 37th Australian Engineers, has completed its 17 days' training, which was spent at Chowder Bay. By the very nature of…
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