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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1879

97 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 5

The Coal Miners. the Lambton Lock-out. (From the Newcastle Herald's correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 September 1879 · page 7

An adjourned meeting of the Lambton miners was held in the Music Hall on Friday morning. There was a large number present, Mr. R. Mooney in the chair…

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The Barrington Gold-Field. (From a Correspondent.)

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 24 September 1879 · page 1

PERHAPS a few notes on the Barrington. Gold-Field may not be but of place in the columns of your journal, in these monotonous times, when everybody is…

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Gold Medals at Shows. (Melbourne Australasian.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 September 1879 · page 3

The inquiry into the gold medal complaint by the council of the National Agricultural Society is not calculated to elevate that body in the estimation of men of probity. The…

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The Mining Dispute at Newcastle

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 September 1879 · page 4

WE learn from the Newcastle Herald that the Lambton miners, under the protection of the military, have returned to work unmolested. Credit is taken, as might have been expected,…

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Our Coal Mines in 1878. (From the S. M. Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 October 1879 · page 7

The following exposition of the coalmining industry of the colony is taken from the official returns published by the Government for last year. Altogether forty mines…

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The Mount Wingen Coal Mine. (From a correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1879 · page 15

Several of your readers, especially those residing in the northern district, may remember, that eighteen or twenty years ago the Rev. Mr. Nash, then residing at Murrurundi,…

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Limiting the Output of Coal

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 October 1879 · page 6

An attempt made by Scotch miners, to raise wages and the price of coal by limiting the output, is thus commented on by the Pall Mall Gazette of August 7:—"The Scotch…

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Reserves from Occupation under Miner's Right or Business License. (Gazette Supplement, October 7) Department of Mines, Sydney, 7th October, 1879

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 October 1879 · page 11

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to reserve from occupation for mining, residence, or business purposes under…

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Arrest of Coal Miners. Newcastle

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 15 October 1879 · page 3

AT the Lambton Police Court to-day, a miner named Wishart, charged with threatening one of the new arrivals named Franz, another miner named…

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Boolbie Goldfield. (From a Correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 October 1879 · page 14

Like a number of other places, during the last two months, work here has been greatly retarded by the rains we have had. In September the water was higher in the…

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Rosewood Goldfield. September 27

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 October 1879 · page 2

We have not had the excessive wet reported from other places, and pastoral and agricultural matters could not be better than they are at present. A good thunderstorm…

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Reported Discovery of Gold at Glen Innes. (From the S. M. Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 14

On the 21st instant, two miners, Charles Vitnell and John M'Nevitt, reported to the warden's clerk, Glen Innes, the discovery of a gold-bearing reef, situated five miles east…

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A Kaoline Mine

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 13 November 1879 · page 2

One of those rare natural deposits, a body of kaoline clay, has recently been found in Connecticut, on a hill near the Thames river. The material for making pottery ware of the…

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Shocking Mining Accident

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 November 1879 · page 14

The Sandhurst correspondent of the Melbourne Argus telegraphs on Sunday last:— A shocking accident happened on Saturday at the mine of the Garden Gully Freehold…

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Coal on the Redhead Estate. (Newcastle Herald of Thursday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1879 · page 16

Messrs. Steel Brothers, who are engaged testing the Redhead Estate for coal, have recently, at a depth of 476 feet, come across a fine seam five feet and three-quarters of an…

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Rosewood Goldfield. November 11

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 November 1879 · page 2

Weather hot and dry. Gardens are parched, and extensive bush fires are raging all round…

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Gold Dust

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 3 December 1879 · page 3

WORK to-day, for you know not how much you will be bindered to-morrow.- Benjamin Franklin. As a countenance is made beautiful…

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