New Lambton Colliery
We understand, upon reliable authority, that the New Lambton men have resolved to fall in again with the vend…
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Mining & the mines, 1879
97 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 5
Humour. "Baby Mine."
THE baby carriage made its appearance yesterday for the season of 1879. It was occupied by the usual baby, and it was propolled by the woman who looks into all the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Vend. (Newcastle Herald of yesterday.) Wallsend Miners
A special meeting of the above Lodge was held on Wednesday evening last, Mr. J. Gibson in the chair. The Secretary stated that he had called the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mysteries of a Lump of Coal
FOR years no one supposed that a lump of soft coal, dug from its mine or bed in the earth, possessed any other quality than being combustible, or was Valuable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Electric Light in Hydraulic Mining
The first electric light ever introduced in a mining claim was placed on the Deer Creek placer claim, of the Excelsior Water Company, at Smartsville, on the 10th of last April. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Sections for the Exhibition. (Newcastle Herald of Saturday.)
With a view to giving a representative trophy of the rich coal fields of the Hunter River District, the various collieries are sending to Sydney a highly interesting collection…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Sections for the Exhibition
WITH a view to giving a representative trophy of- the rich coal fields of the Hunter River District, the various collieries are sending to Sydney a highly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Maitland Mercury. Thursday, August 21, 1879. the Coal Mining Disputes at Newcastle
MATTERS in the mining districts of Newcastle are clearly in a state of terrible tension. We cannot look to the future without a feeling of great anxiety. We hasten to express…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Vend Scheme. Adjourned Aggregate Meeting of Miners
Yesterday morning (says the Newcastle Herald of Tuesday) in pursuance of a resolution passed at the aggregate meeting of miners of the Hunter River district, held on Griffiths' Hill, Lambton, on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Recent Mining Disturbances at Newcastle. [By Electric Telegraph From Our Correspondent.] Wednesday, recd. 9.40 p.m
The coal-miners' differences have been settled for the present, by the Lambton mon agreeing to work for the future not more than eight days each fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Singleton Argus. Saturday. August 23. 1879. Troubles at the Collieries
SOMEBODY has said that the saddest of all words are—"It night have been." An instance of the incorrectness of the aphorism was given in the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Lambton Miners. (Newcastle Herald of Thursday.)
The whistle blew louder than usual for work on Wednesday morning, but the men did not turn out, although, it is said that there was plenty of police protection at the pits, but…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boolbie Goldfield. Where Is It? Who Found It? (From a correspondent.)
If you take a map of New South Wales, and follow the coastline northward from Port Jackson, between Port Stephens and the Manning River, you will find a point of land,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, September 9, 1879. the Coal Vend Agreement Again
MANY writers who condemn the vend agreement unfairly narrow their view. The vend agreement is the consequence of a state of things that probably never had a parallel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Muuro's Gold Medal
MR.ALEXANDER MUNHO had the pleasure of receiving at the bands of Mr. P. M.waddy on Monday night the gold medal he won at the paris Exposition.The medal was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cost of Coal
The pathetic plea of the fisherwoman in Scott's "Antiquary," that what her customer was chaffering over was not fish, but men's lives, might appropriately be transferred to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great Find of Gold Rumoured. (By Telegraph to the Echo.) Wellington
A rumour of a great find of gold at Big Hill, Burkendong, has reached town. A man named Law, who had worked there some 20 years ago, has been working there again for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Disturbances Amongst the Coal Miners. a Crisis Expected. [From Our Correspondent.] Newcastle. Friday recd. 9.55 p.m
A serious disturbance was threatened at the South Waratah Colliery last night. About one hundred miners assembled, with the evident intention of driving away some half dozen men who were living…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Blantyre Colliery Explosion. (From the correspondent of the Times.) Glasgow, July 4
A startling discovery was made this morning, on the air courses being so far repaired as to permit of the innermost part of the working in No. 1 pit being…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Accidents at Sandhurst. (From the Melbourne Argus, Sept. 15.) Sandhurst
An accident occurred on Saturday morning at the Great Southern Company's No. 4 shaft, by which a German, named Frederick Uhrbrock, sustained injuries of a most…
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