Built of Gold
It in this colony we have no city with its streets paved With gold, we at least can boast of an edifice built with the precious metal. A store and public-house at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Illawarra · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1879
44 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 3
Local News Meeting of Mount Pleasant Miners
A public meeting of the miners connected with the Mount Pleasant Colliery was held at the corner of Keira and Smith-streets, on Saturday afternoon, before pay on that day, there being about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bulli Colliery Difficulty
Unfortunately, the dispute connected with the Bulli Colliery still remains unsettled, and it is much to be regretted that within the past few days matters have become rather more aggravated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mount Pleasant Colliery Matters
At the request of Mr. Lahiff, Manner of the Mount Pleasant Colliery, three of the miners connected with that pit waited om him on Thursday last, to hear proposals which it was understood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Quality of Illawarra Coal
THE following appears as a letter in Friday's Herald from Mr. Thomas Hale, Manager of the Coal-cliff Colliery :—" There are some remarks made by your intelligent "Special…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bulli Coal Company
The thirty-fourth half-yearly meeting of shareholders was held at the Exchange, on Tuesday, when the following report was read and adopted:— "The sales of coal have been good, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic Intelligence. Coal Cliff, Monday, 6 p.m
The sea was very boisterous here yesterday and up to this morning, but the Clifton jetty withstood the worst of it splendidly. Sydney, Monday, 9 p.m,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Matters at Lithgow Valley
In connection with an appeal to the public for pecuniary assistance, the Lithgow Valley miners have published the following:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Discovery of Coal in Gipps LaND
What may prove to be an important formation of coal has lately been discovered on the selection of Mr. Peter Miles, at the Moe, close to the Gippsland line of railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wallsend Colliery Disaster
The pit was started to work at the usual hour on Thursday morning, and everything proceeded quietly until shortly before 7 o'clock, when a violent shock was fell throughout the entire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dreadful Colliery Accident
Another of those terrible mining disasters which have of late years given such unhappy notoriety to the Rhondda Valley district occurred late on the night of January 13, at Dinas Colliery. Dinas is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fatal Colliery Explosion in New Zealand
The 'Lyttleton Times' of the 22nd February has the following telegraphic account:—"Between 8 and 9 o'clock on the morning of the 21st February an explosion occurred in a coal mine at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MISCELLANEOUS. Fearful Mining Catastrophe in New Zealand. the Manager and Upwards of Thirty Men Killed
EARLY on the morning of the 21st February, a telegram was received in town stating that an explosion had occurred in the Kaitangata Coal Company's mine at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Retrospect of the Coal Trade
At a time when complaints of suffering and depression in our staple industries are universal, and when the horizon scums to be more than usually obscured by doubt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Etrospect of the Coal Trade. (Concluded.)
The substitution of iron for steel inVolves as a further corollary a large decline in the amount of labour required to produce the same result; and it is undoubtedly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal-Cliff Claims (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—In your last issue there in a report of a meeting held at Bulli to agitate for the removal of the Telegraph Office there from the Bulli jetty to the main road, where it ought to be. This is a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Illawarra Miners' Mutual Protective Association. Meeting of Delegates
The quarterly Delegate Meeting in connection with this Association took place on Tuesday last, in Mr. C. Wilson's Assembly Room, Bulli, there being representatives present, from the three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seat Positions in Coal Mines
A Royal Commission has been appointed to enquire "whether the resources of science furnish any practicable expedients that are not now in use, and are calculated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Illawarra Miners' Union Demonstration
The first public demonstration in connection with the Minors' Union recently formed in this district took place on the Bulli Coal Company's Point, at Bulli, on Monday last (Easter Monday),…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reported Goldfield in the North of New Zeland
ON more than one occasion reports have been current of the discovery of gold in the country to the North of Auckland, but somehow or other nothing has come of them…
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