English Mail. Arrival of the Alexandra at Adelaide. with the Alteration in Despatch of the Mails. £2,000,000 Sterling Voted for Abyssinian Expedition. Execution of Fenians. Mr. Blackall, Governor of West Africa, Appointed Governor of Queensland. Colliery Explosion—170 Persons Killed. Adelaide, Saturday, 6.p.m
The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 15 January 1868 · page 4
The Alexandra (s.), Captain Brow, arrived at Glenelg at 3 p.m., after a fine passage of ninety-nine hour from the Sound. The upward trip occupied 121 hours, against a strong westerly gale…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 18 January 1868 · page 4
Another of those dreadful catastrophes, says the Times of Nov. 12, which of late have appeared to succeed each other with unaccustomed rapidity is now reported from South Wales. An…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 18 January 1868 · page 3
The melancholy accident which occurred in the Lambton colliery, on Tuesday last, to a [?] named William Adamson, terminated fatally in the evening of the same day about eight o'clock. As…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 25 January 1868 · page 4
On Friday, a sad accident occurred at Silverdale, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, by which three men, Ishmael Richards, Isaac Williams, and George Bowers lost their lives. These men, it…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 29 January 1868 · page 4
The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held in the Co operative Hall, on Saturday last; about one hundred shareholders were present. Mr. Hugh Walker, was voted to…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 29 January 1868 · page 2
An inquest wins held at Rouse's Hotel, on Saturday last, before R. J. Pierce Esq., Coroner, and a jury of six, on the body of Joseph Conners, who came by his death by falling off one of…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 15 February 1868 · page 3
Benjamin Musgrave, a miner, was charged with unlawfully assaulting and beating one Ridley William Moodic, the manager of the Waratah Colliery. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and was defended by…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 22 February 1868 · page 4
Pursuant to announcement in our last, a meeting of this committee was held at the Great Northern Hotel, on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. W. Keene occupied the chair, and there were…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 11 March 1868 · page 2
SEVERAL gentlemen of influence and position in the city have called at our office and requested that we would bring prominently under the notice of our subscribers and the public generally,…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 14 March 1868 · page 4
The following correspondence, relative to the value of the Kawa Kawa coal for steam purposes, has been handed to us for publication :— Auckland, 28th Feb., 1868…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Letters to the Editor. Miners' Rights. To the Editor of tin Newcastle Chronicle
The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 18 March 1868 · page 3
SIR—As it appears that those parties—miners' committees—who are placed from time to time by the miners to watch over and guard their interests, have diverged into such a state of apathetic indifference that it seems useless…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 2 May 1868 · page 4
Thursday, April 30 We have had two fearfull accidents in the pits here, some account of which may prove acceptable. Yesterday, a poor fellow, named David Blacky, got…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 9 May 1868 · page 3
SIR—Referring to the discovery of petroleum coal, noticed in your last paper, I must beg that credit be given to Thomas Frost, an intelligent working union, who, some time since, opened the coal - seam at Greta, known…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 24 June 1868 · page 4
The adjourned public meeting to discuss the question of improved roads between Newcastle and Wallsend was held in the Court-house, on Monday evening, pursuant to adjournment…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 27 June 1868 · page 4
In the depths of the bush, about half a mile to the south of the rising and flourishing township of Lau[?]ton, there was celebrated, on Thursday last an event of no. ordinary…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 30 June 1868 · page 4
The first of a series of meetings in connection with the above movement was held in the Public School, Pit Town, on the evening of Friday last. Considering that the inhabitants of the township had had no notice of the…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 2 July 1868 · page 3
The second of the series of public meetings to consider the question of the propriety of incorporating the colliery townships into a Municipal district, was held at Waratah on…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 4 July 1868 · page 1
The knowledge of the geographical distribution of coal and of its availability wherever found, for the various ends which that invaluable fuel is made to serve by sea and land,…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 4 July 1868 · page 3
The third of a series of meetings in connection with the above movement was held in tile Lambton Mechanics and Miners' Institute, on Thursday evening last Thomas Croudace,…
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The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 7 July 1868 · page 4
The last of the advertised series of meetings in connection with the movement for the corporation of the colliery townships, was held in the Oddfellows Hall, Wallsend, on the…
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