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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1866

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The Duration of Our Supply of Coal

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 9 June 1866 · page 4

Under the title of "The Coal Question," Mr. Jevous has furnished the public with a number of well-arranged and, for the most part, indisputable facts, and with a series of…

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A Rival Coal Field

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 11 July 1866 · page 2

IN the CHRONICLE of the 4th instant we reprinted a report of a meeting from the Melbourne Argus having reference to the opening up of a new, and what it is believed will…

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Newcastle Coal Shoots

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 14 July 1866 · page 3

The following letter received from the Departmemt of Public Works the following letter having reference to the coal shoots was continuously placed at our disposal yesterday by J. Hannell…

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Letters to the Editor. the Coal Trade

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 14 July 1866 · page 3

SIR.-The meeting in Melbourne of gentlemen interested in the coal trade of this port is one of most significant importance. He who runs may read in the occurrence the abject position into…

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Depth of Coal

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 25 July 1866 · page 4

SIR-If the writer of a letter inserted in your paper of the l4th instant, signed "A Miner," will call upon me I shall be most happy to give him the information he asks for, and show him how…

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General News. Our Supply of Coal

The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 8 August 1866 · page 4

Locomotion by steam on land and water is at present conducted on a frightfully wasteful system. No person can look upon the immense bunkers of our steam vessels, or the…

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The Cape Patterson Coal-field

The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 15 August 1866 · page 3

In reply to the shallow criticisms which have been passed on his proceedings in reference to the Cape Patterson coal-field, Mr. Selwyn has published an instructive letter, in…

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Supreme Court, Sydney. Monday, Sept. 17. Before Sir Alfred Stephen, Chief Justice; Mr. Justice Hargrave, and Mr Justice Chceke. Brown and Another V. Waratah Coal Company

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 22 September 1866 · page 4

The argument in this case-which occupied two days lost week-was concluded. It was an action for breach of contract, and for damages alleged to have been done to…

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Future Supply of Coal

The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 3 October 1866 · page 4

The following is the substance of an interesting debase, on the above subject, in the House of Commons, in June last:-Mr. H. Vivian, in a long and interesting…

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Important Meeting of Miners at Griffths' Flat. Dispute Between the Manager of This Waratah Company and the Men

The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 3 October 1866 · page 2

On Monday morning last, a largely attended meeting of miners engaged in the Waratah tunnels, was held on Grifliths' Flat. The meeting, it appears, was an adjourned one…

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The New Government Coal Staiths

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 6 October 1866 · page 2

The tender of Mr. Dyson, for the constr[?]tion of the masonry work in connection with the new Government coal staiths having been recently accepted, some particulars relative to…

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Northumrerland Miners' Building and Investment Society

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 6 October 1866 · page 2

On Thursday evening, the 4th instant, a public meeting was held at the Green Gate Inn, Waratah (Mr. Dawson's), to take into consideration, the advisability of forming a…

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The Burwood Colliery

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 13 October 1866 · page 2

At the close of tho police court sittings on Wednesday last, before H. Scott, and J. Corlette, Esqs., a cass of appeal againstan assessment of property made by the Newcastle Municipal…

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The Threatened Strike Among the Miners. Public Meeting at The-miners' Arms

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 13 October 1866 · page 2

On Thursday evening last, a third meeting of the miners in the Waratah Colliery, respecting the dispute between the manager and the two Tonka's, was hold in the large room…

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Fatal Mine Accident at Ballarat Three Men Killed

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 13 October 1866 · page 4

At five o'clock on the morning of Monday, Oct. 1, the men employed by the contractors for sinking the Band of Hope Company's No. 3 shaft were, as usual, alternately boaring the…

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The Dispute Between the Manager and Miners at Waratah

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 13 October 1866 · page 2

Things at Waratah during the past week ending to-day have worn a mer sombre as pect, for, notwithstanding the so[?]good feeling that has lately been evinced in the…

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The Waratah Colliery Dispute. General District Meeting of Miners at Griffiths' Flat

The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 17 October 1866 · page 2

A GENERAL district meeting of miners, to which men from all the collieries in the Hunter River District were invited, was held, pursuant to public notice by placard and…

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Miners, and Miners' Rights

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 20 October 1866 · page 3

The dissensions at Waratah, and the discussions and meetings arising therefrom, calling together as they do, the majority of the Hunter River miners to deliberate and decide…

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Threatened Strike at the Waratah Colliery

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 20 October 1866 · page 2

Since our last summary, we regret to say a dispute has arisen between the men employed in the above-named colliery and the manager Mr. Moody. The dispute arose through two…

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The Coal-miner and the Gold-miner

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 27 October 1866 · page 2

THE extraordinary impetus given to the trade and general transactions of the land we live in, by the opening up of our coal-mines and gold-fields is a matter of every-day…

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