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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1898

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Mount Kembla Notes. Mining

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 3 September 1898 · page 2

The pay this time is only for seven days—considerably under the average—and I am afraid that the rough weather this week and the consequent interruption to loading…

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The Coal Trade

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 6 September 1898 · page 2

Shipments of coal at port of Bellambi during last week amounted to 3880 tons, all being for Sydney. The steamer Glaucus leaded part cargo of coal at…

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Mount Kembla Notes. Mining

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 8 September 1898 · page 2

Although shipping at the port was considerably interferes with last week, the mine worked fairly well, and there is every probability of there being a good pay for the…

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Bulli and Woonona News. Coal Trade

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 2

Old Bulli has worked nine days for the fortnight ending yesterday, and, given fine weather, a full day is expected to-day, which will bring the total up to ten days…

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The Southern Coal Trade. Last Month's Output

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 2

The shipments of coal from this part of the district (including the jetties at Kembla, Bellambi and Bulli, and Belmore Basin, Wollongong) during the month of August…

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The Coal Trade

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 13 September 1898 · page 2

Shipments of coal at the port of Bellambi during last week amounted to 3580 tons. Of this quantity 700 tons were sent to Melbourne, 490 tons to South Sea Islands,…

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Mining on the Shoalhaven

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 15 September 1898 · page 2

THE Shoalhaven Sluicing Company is about to complete the connections in their race to Colombo. The legal manager, Mr. Piddington, and Mr. Tullock, a large…

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Port Kembla Harbor. Mass Meeting of Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 17 September 1898 · page 2

A well-attended meeting of the Port Kembla Harbor Lengue was held at Wollongong last night, the Mayor presiding. Mr. Ritchie, president of the Southern…

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Port Kembla Harbor. the Miners' Demonstration

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 20 September 1898 · page 2

At a meeting of the committee of the Port Kembla Harbor League on Friday evening Mr. F. A. Franklin, in the course of an incisive speech, expressed hearty…

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The Coal Trade

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 22 September 1898 · page 2

Shipments of coal at the port of Bellambi during last week totalled 4410 tons, all being for Sydney. The Clifton coal trade is very slack…

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Port Kembla Harbor. the Miners' Demonstration

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 2

A meeting of the committee of the Port Kembla Harbor League was held on Thursday evening, when there was a fair attendance, the Mayor presiding. The secretary…

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The Coal Trade

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 27 September 1898 · page 2

Shipments of coal at the port of Bellambi during list week amounted to 4050 tons, of which 560 tons were consigned to Melbourne and the balance to Sydney…

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Port Kembla Harbor. the Miners' Demonstration

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 27 September 1898 · page 2

In connection with the great demonstration by the Southern miners, to be held at Market Square, Wollongong, on Saturday afternoon next in advocacy of…

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The Miners' Demonstration

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 29 September 1898 · page 2

The special train to run on Saturday next from Helensburgh to Wollongong will leave the former station at 12.55 p.m., calling at all intermediate stations, and…

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The Miners' Demonstration

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 1 October 1898 · page 2

Wollongong will be very busy to-day. It is pay day, and in addition to the large number who regularly visit the town on such days, the special train arranged for by…

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The Coal Trade

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 1 October 1898 · page 2

The Metropolitan Colliery, Helensburgh, has been very busy for the past month, and still keeps going full time to meet the incre-sed demands of trade. A number of…

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Claim for Compensation. James Axam v. Mount Kembla Coal Company

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 1 October 1898 · page 2

At the Small Debts Court, on Thursday, before Messrs. J. Richards, C. J. Cullen and W. J. Wiseman, J.P., James Axam sued the Mount Kembla Coal Company to…

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The Coal Trade

Illawarra Mercury · Wednesday 5 October 1898 · page 2

The steamer Andonia arrived at Port Kembla yesterday to lead 500 tons of coke, but owing to the heavy swell had to lie in the bay all the afternoon, the trimmers who…

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Poet Kembla Harbor. the Miners' Demonstration. Marked Enthusiasm. the Bill to Be Proceeded with This Session

Illawarra Mercury · Wednesday 5 October 1898 · page 2

Not for many years has Wollongong been so busy as on Saturday last. From noon up to a late hour in the evening Crown-street was thronged, and the unusual influx…

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The Coal Trade

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 11 October 1898 · page 2

Shipments of coal from Wollongong and the jetties for the month of September were as follow:—Jetties, 49,511 tons; Belmore Basin, 8649 tons; total, 58,160…

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