The Colliery Question
The present position of affairs at Newcastle is still unchanged, and the miners are refusing to make any concession to the board of conciliation. Three…
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Mining & the mines, 1888
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Mining Matters
THE White Rock. —Ninety-one men are Dow employed at this mine, and Mr. Rossiter informs us that the prospects are extremely good. A portion of the Frue…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Telegraphic News [Through Greville's Company.) New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. [Lodged 12; received 2.] Mining Conference
A CONFERENCE among the masters and miners, yesterday, terminated unsatisfactorily, and a strike now seems certain to begin on Friday night. The miners…
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THE Eleanora Co. having saved a little water in their dam, despite the dry weather, have been enabled to start crushing for a time…
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The above mines, as many of our readers are doubtless aware, are situated 30 miles north-east of Glen Innes, abutting the authorised railway line to Grafton. They comprise 380 acres of land…
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It is rumoured at two mines In Wollongong that the men have made a demand tor increase in hewing rates, besides other claims, which it is feared will eventuate…
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The Baker's Creek Gold Mining Co. again commenced crushing operations on Thursday night last, with ten head of stampers. They had, before last rain,…
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There is a rumour afloat to-day that the delegates will meet for the purpose of testing the feeling of lodges as to whether the miners should resume work during…
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THE Charters Towers Times reports:--The Day Dawn reef was struck in the Freehold this morning (25th August) at a depth of 1035 feet straight. The area of the Freehold is nine acres…
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FROM Deepwater we learn that Mr. Bathurst's Proprietary silver mine at Castlereagh is looking well. They are on a rich bunch of gossan and galena, making…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Telegraphic News [Through Greville's Company.] New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. [Lodged 11.30; received 2.] Attempt to Destroy a Mine
AN attempt on the part of some miners to destroy the mine at Burwood, Newcastle, by dynamite, caused great uneasiness in the district. Further investigation by…
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ANOTHER Big Crushing.—There was another successful crushing at Baker's Creek, Hillgrore Mines, last week, when from 35 tons of stone the grand yield of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hillgrove Mines. Monday, Afternoon. Testimonial to Mr. George Smith
AT a meeting held at the Centennial Hall, on Saturday 22nd inst., at,7.30. p.m., there were about 30 or 40 persons present. Mr. S. Snow, an old and respected miner…
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At a meeting of Lambton miners, the proposal from other leagues to borrow £40,000 for fire years, to be distributed weekly, should the strike continue among…
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JUDGING by news from the scene of contest between mining capital and mining labor, Newcastle, the situation strikes one as being more pregnant of bathos than pathos. The…
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DALMORTON.--A correspondent to the Grafton Examiner writes:--We lately visited the mines on Chandler's Creek. There general appearance is favorable, and the country is soft, quite different…
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BUSINESS MATTERS.—There is very little doing just now, and trade U very quiet. ACCIDENT.—There was a sad accident to-day at Brereton's mine. A…
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The South Bulli miners have, by a majority of eighty to six, balloted in favour of a strike. The matter will now come before the District Lodges for sanction,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hillgrove Mines. Wednesday, Oct. 10
Since my last letter we have been blessed with a steady downpour of rain, sufficient to fill all the dams, and give a plentiful supply of water for the next six months…
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There has been a further disturbance at Wallsend. The miners on strike stoned, the black legs and the police, and the manager and his son, the clerk at the…
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