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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1880

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The Newcastle Coal Crisis. Newcastle

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1880 · page 1

THE aggregate meeting of the miners at Waratah to-day was not very largely attended. 1500 were present. Mr. William Davies, chairman of the Miners…

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New Road Refused. Department of Mines, Sydney, 10th April, 1880

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1880 · page 2

Sir,-With' reference to the petition presented by you on behalf of certain inhabitants of Mitchell's Flat, Glendon, Roughit, &c., for the opening of a road between Glendon…

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The Singleton Argus. Saturday, April 17, 1880. The Newcastle Coal Trade

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1880 · page 2

ONCE more Newcastle and its suburbs are in a state of anxiety as to the probable result of the crisis through which the coal trade is passing. High prices…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade. (Newcaste Herald of Tuesday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 22 April 1880 · page 5

The adjourned meeting between the Associated Masters and the Miners' Delegates, took place at the A.A. Co.'s office yesterday Mr. Jesse Gregson (A.A. Co.), presided. The collieries represented were the…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade. the Miners' Ballot. (Newcastle Herald of Saturday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 2

For the Against Majority Masters' proposal, it. against. Brown's Collieries.............. 45... 103... 58 (Over 200 did not vote.)…

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The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, April 27, 1880. the Mass Vote of the Miners

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 4

It is not wise to swop horses while crossing a stream. And at a time when the miners of the Newcastle district are determining, by a bad method, whether they shall accept or…

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The Newcastle Coal Mining Dispute

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1880 · page 6

The following are the resolutions passed at Wallsend on Monday, by the aggregate meeting of miners: That, in the opinion of thin meeting, we very much…

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Poetry. the Gold Chain

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1880 · page 13

A gold chain the sun dropped into the wave— A beauteous chain, both slender and small; And a mermaid, combing her hair in a cave, Saw the bright thing waver and glisten and fall…

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Chapter Xxxviii. "Mine at Last, My Darling!"

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1880 · page 13

"Wonders will never cease!" sagely remarked Lord Montague, after listening to the strange experiences of Reginald and Lady Alice; and his delight at the way his cherished plans had terminated, or…

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All that Glitters is not Gold

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1880 · page 1

ONE of the beauties and charms of an editor's life is his dead-heading it on all occasions. No one who has ever tasted of the sweets of that bliss can…

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The Coalmining Dispute at Newcastle. (Newcastle Herald of yesterday.) Miners' Aggregate Meeting

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 May 1880 · page 3

The general meeting of miners, convened for Saturday last, took place at half-past 11 o'clock, on Griffiths' Flat, Lambton. There was a large attendance, there being close upon…

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The Coal Mining Dispute at Newcastle. the Price of Coal. (Newcastle Herald of yesterday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 6 May 1880 · page 3

Rumours were afloat yesterday as to the price coal was to be sold at by the nonassociated collieries, in consequence of the the associated miners being out. We made…

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The Coal Trade at Newcastle. [By Electric Telegraph.] Newcastle, Friday evening

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1880 · page 4

The men belonging to the Ferndale Colliery resumed work to-day under agreement with Mr. Bevan, one of the owners, who has taken the responsibility of working the mine te supply certain…

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Mining Affairs at Greta. [From a Correspondent of the Newcastle Herald.]

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 8 May 1880 · page 2

MINING matters, which are still in a very distreesed, gloomy, and unsetiled state here, assumed a rahter remarkable, it amusing, aspect om Monday…

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A Gold Mine in a Cow

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 12 May 1880 · page 1

A FEW issues back, we gave several details of the pedigree of the young Duchess bull—Hillburst's 6th Duke recently purchased by Mr. A. A…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 12 May 1880 · page 1

THE price of coal at all the collieries now working—viz., Lambton, Now Lambton, Waratah, and Newcastle companies—has again been raised to…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 22 May 1880 · page 1

OWING to the present great demand for coal, there is every probability of the Newcastle Company employing a large number of additional hands, and working…

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Copeland. Defects in the Mining Law

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 May 1880 · page 15

At a public meeting held on the 15th inst, at Copeland North, to consider the gold mining law of this colouy, the following resolutions were submitted and carried…

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Disturbances at the Newcastle Mines. Two Miners Arrested for Assault. (Newcastle Herald of Saturday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 May 1880 · page 6

Although it was, on Thursday, hoped that the miners of the Hamilton and Glebe pits would adopt the course of refraining from further molestation of the labourers…

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The Newcastle Miners' Strike. Mass Meeting in Sydney. Determination to Support the Miners. [By "Observer."]

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 May 1880 · page 6

Everybody in the Northern districts is of course aware of the fact that the miners of the A. A. Company's Colliery, Newcastle Wallsend Company's Colliery, Co-operative,…

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