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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1863

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Presentation to a Colliery Overman

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 24 October 1863 · page 4

The workmen of the Kepier Grange colliery met at the Lord Scaham Inn, Teasdole's Terrace, Gilsgate Moor, on the evening of Friday, the 17th instant, for…

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Mining Enterprise in the Northern Coal Field. North of England Institute of Mining Enginrrtd.—transactions. Vols. X. XI. 1861

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 24 October 1863 · page 4

What may bE called the Curiosities of Coalmining are occasionally illustrated in the densely technical volumes of those Transactions; but to select them and put…

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Coal Companies Versus Individual Proprietors

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 28 October 1863 · page 2

THE cloud of insolvency which hAs lately overshadowed some of the most adventurous of the Bellambi coal masters—causing, it may be presumed, a dislocation of…

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Meetings of Public Companies. Cardiff Coal Company

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 31 October 1863 · page 4

The second half-yearly meeting of the share-holders of the Cardiff Coal Company was held at House's Hotel, Newcastle, yesterday morning; George A Lloyd, Esq., in the chair…

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Peak Downs Gold-fields

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 4 November 1863 · page 3

Another arrival from Peak Downs, who has for some time been employed in the carrying trade between Rockhampton and the diggings, has called at our office…

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Warratah Coal Company

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 7 November 1863 · page 3

The first General Meeting of the shareholders of the Waratah Coal Company was held on Tuesday, at their offices, Pitt-street, at three o'clock. Captain Smith took the chair…

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Reduction of Miner's Wages in the Various Collieries

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 18 November 1863 · page 2

WE learn, with feelings of regret, that the miners employed in some of the Newcastle Collieries have, during the past week, signified their intention to leave their…

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Meeting of Miners of the A. A. Company

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 18 November 1863 · page 2

On Monday, at 5 p.m., there was a general muster of the miners working under the A. A. Company, at the junction of the two lines of rail at the Borehole, who attended by appointment to…

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Minmi Colliery

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 25 November 1863 · page 3

T was Thursday morn at Minmi, and we were joyous there, For flags were flying, music playing, sweetly through the air…

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Dreadful Colliery Explosion in South Wales

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 23 December 1863 · page 5

On Saturday morning, at 10 30, an explosion took place at the Morfa Colliery, three miles from Port Talbot Station, Glamorganshire, by which 35 persons have lost…

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Strike at Messrs. Joicey's Collieries Near Chester-le-street. (From the Durham Chronicle, October 23.)

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 26 December 1863 · page 3

At the Chester-le-Street Petty Sessions, on Thursday, Oct. the 15th, before the Revs. E. H. Shipperdson, H. Barrett, and H. T. Morton, Esqra., William Tewart, Charles…

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