Waratah. Opening Meeting of Miners
A general meeting of miners, from all the collieries, took place on Monday last, at elev[?] o'clock. About 500 were in attendance, and Messrs. Fletcher, of Waratah; J Lumsdaine,…
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Mining & the mines, 1864
54 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 3
Terrible Coal-pit Accident Near Leicester
A fatal coal-pit accident took place on the 8th of October, 1803, at Coleorton, a village noted for its collieries, oqui-distant from the Swannington and Colville…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poetry. the Miner's Wife; Or, the Evening After the Explosion at the Colliery
The night grows dark, and the sun has set, Yet his footstep sounds not nigh; I pace to and fro, and my sad tear a flow, And my lone heart heaves a sight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal and Copper Com. Pany's Mine at Redhead
The entrance to the Coal and Copper Company's mine, at Redhead, is situated in a romantic dell, close to the sea shore. It is about four miles from Newcastle, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Strike at Messrs Straker and Love's Collieries
The strike at Messrs. Straker and Love's collieries still continues, and, to all appearance, there is little prospect of speedy reconcilement. The weather of Friday last added…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Adelaide. Mr. Hargreave's Gold Search Expedition
The following extracts from letters lately received from Mr. Hargreaves by the honorable Commissioner of Crown Lands are published in last Thursday's Government…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Practical and Scientific Account of Our Principal Coal Fields. (Illawarra Mercury, Feb. 9.)
On Friday evening, 5th instant, Mr. John Mackenzie, the Examiner of Coal Fields for the Southern district, delivered an interesting lecture at the School of Arts,…
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It is something more than strange, that so little has been done by the Government of this colony to determine whether workable seams of coal exist within the…
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We would call attention to the following information, sent from Russell, by Mr. George M. Milford to the Colonial Secretary, in reference to the recent important…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Zealand. the Wakamarina Gold Field
The Nelson Colonist of the 22nd ultimo says:— The general intelligence from the new gold field continues to be satisfactory, and various accounts of good gains are received. Of course,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland. Peak Downs Gold Fields and Copper Mines
Our special reporter has failed to send his fortnightly budget of news from the Peak Downs; but a casual correspondent partially rectifies the deficiency, and supplies the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Zealand. the Wakamarina Gold-fields
Captain Darby, of the City of Hobart (s.), has favoured us with a copy of the Marlborough Press of the 1lth instant, and Otago papers to the 10th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Northern Gold-fields. the Rocky River
A few months age the company who own the race from Mount Welsh to Tipperary, extended it, with the permission of the Commissioner, to a dry lagoon, about a mile and a half…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Extracts. Threatened Strike of Miners in the
GLASGOW DISTRICT.— On Monday, a meeting of miners belonging to the north and south sides of the Clyde or Glasgow District, was held in the Lyceum Rooms,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wakamarina Gold-field
This weather is still unfavourable for gold-diggers, heavy showers of rain continuing to full at intervals, thus keeping the rivers full of water, and preventing them…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Strikes
The Sydney Morning Herald, of the 3rd instant, comments as follows, on the recent strike of miners, at Adelaide :— A statement appeared in our telegram…
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Induced by various reasons, amongst which the temporary stoppage of the Minmi works may have found a place, the representatives of the coal interests determined, on consultation, that the time had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Lake Macquarie Coal Mines
A deputation of gentlemen interested in coalmining properties at Lake Maquer waited yesterday morning upon the Minister for works, for the purpose of urging that steps might be taken for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Inundation 0F a Mine at Chesterfield. Narrow Escape of the Twelve Men
In the chronicle of last week it was stated that an accident had taken place at the Spitalwell Ironsone Mine, near Cheaterfield on Tuesday, and that on wednesday evening it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strike of Miners at Seghill Colliery. The Newcastle Chronicle says:— Scarcely
has the public mind been quieted after the excitement of the Wellington strike, than the men of another of the great collieries of the north have turned out in consequence of a…
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