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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1892

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Miners Special Meeting

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 May 1892 · page 3

A special meeting was held in Page's hall on Tuesday evening, Mr. Wm. Jackson in the chair, and there was a good muster of the men. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and…

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Urham Colliery Difficulty Wages to be Reduced. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 4 May 1892 · page 3

[?]ANT of the proprietors of the Dur[?]m collieries have expressed their determination not tom reopen their [?]nes unless the miners on strike…

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Greta. Miners' Meeting

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1892 · page 3

The usual monthly meeting of this lodge was held in Page's Hall on Monday. Mr. Win, Jackson occupied the chair, and there was an extra large turnout of the men, Mr. Curley, the General…

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Deputation to Minister of Mines Awd Agriculture

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1892 · page 7

On Thursday forenoon, Mr. Gillies, M.P. for West Maitland, accompanied by Mr. J. W. Bowes, M.P. for Morpeth, waited upon Mr. T. M. Slattery, Minister of Mines and Agriculture, to ask that the…

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Goldfield Proclaimed

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 May 1892 · page 2

County of Gresham, parishes of Broadmeadows, Urania, Dalmorton, and Springbrook, area of about 109 square miles, within the resumed areas of Broadmeadow, Newton Boyd, and Cunglebung…

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Goldfield Proclaimed

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 May 1892 · page 6

County of Gresham, parishes of Broadmeadows, Urania, Dalmorton, and Springbrock, area of about 109 square miles, within the resumed areas of Broadmeadow, Newton Boyd, and Cunglebung…

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Goldfield Proclaimed

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 May 1892 · page 4

County of Gresham, parishes of Broadmeadows, Urania, Dalmorton, and Springbrook, area of about 109 square miles, within the resumed areas of Broadmeadow, Newton Boyd, and Cunglebung…

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Goldfield Proclaimed

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 May 1892 · page 6

County of Gresham, parishes of Broadmeadows, Urania, Dalmorton, and Springbrook, area of about 109 sqnare miles, within the resumed areas of Broadmeadow, Newton Boyd, and Cunglebung…

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Proposed Coal Trust. at Newcastle. a Big Undertaking

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 18 May 1892 · page 3

THE principal it in of consideration in the mining community is the proposed coal trust at Newcastle. With regard to its futility or otherwise it is being…

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Something Like a Gold Find 1250 oz. from 3 cwt. of Stone

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 May 1892 · page 4

Relative to the sensational find of gold at the Percy River, 75 miles from Georgetown (Q), Mr Warden Haldane has wired as follows to the…

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The Coal Strike in England

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 May 1892 · page 7

The coal strike dies hard. Although the movement as a whole has collapsed, a number of the Durham miners still hold out, and refuse to accept the employers' terms. The masters are as obdurate…

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The Coal Industry and American Trade. (Daily Telegraph, May 14.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 May 1892 · page 7

Mr. W. A. Hutchinson, who is well-known in Sydney and Newcastle, chiefly in connection with the Northern coal trade, and is to leave by the mail steamer on Monday for…

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Goldfield Proclaimed

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 21 May 1892 · page 3

County of Gresham, parishes of Broadmeadows, Urania, Dalmorton, and Springbrook, area of about 109 square miles, within the resumed areas of Broadmeadow, Newton Boyd, and Cunglebung…

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Gold in Western Australia

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 May 1892 · page 4

LATE intelligence from Perth, Western Australia, states that several miners arrived in Geraldton on Friday last from Murchison, bringing so…

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Miners' Meeting

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 June 1892 · page 3

A special meeting of this lodge was held in Page's Hall on Wednesday night, Mr. Wm. Jackson in the chair, and the attendance was about the average. Minutes of the previous meeting and usual…

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Terrible Mining Disaster. Over 300 Miners Missing. Incendiarism Suspected. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 8 June 1892 · page 3

A TELEGRAM from Vienna reports a mining disaster in Przibram, a town in Bohemia. A fire having broken out in a silver mine, 40 miners were imprisoned in the mine. 14…

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Greta. Miners' Meeting

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 June 1892 · page 7

The quarterly general meeting of this lodge took place in Page's Hall on Tuesday night; Mr. Wm. Jackson was in the chair, and the meeting was a crowded one. The previous minutes were read and…

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International Miners' Federation. a Big Proposal. [By Cable]. London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 June 1892 · page 3

British and Continental Miners' [?]gress, now sittiug in London, has [?]ded to form a federation to regu[?] the common interests of miners in…

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Extension of Gold Field Revoked

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 June 1892 · page 3

County of Gloucester, parish of Boranel, area about 202 acres, land district of Stroud; extension to the Barrington gold field…

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Extension of Gold Field Revoked

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 June 1892 · page 4

County of Gloucester, parish of Boranel, area about 202 acres, land district of Stroud; extension to the Barrington gold field…

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