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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1871

32 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 2

Lambton Colliery. Inauguration of the New Furnace

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 8 June 1871 · page 4

Saturday was a red letter day in the history of the Lambton Colliery. Leaving this city as shortly before one o'clock, a tolerably large party of our citizens, in receipt of invitations…

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Coal Staiths at Newcastle

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 15 June 1871 · page 4

We have been favoured by G. A. Lloyd, Esq., M.P., with the following:— The Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly, appointed on the 25th January,…

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Meeting of the Hulfe Gottes Mining Company

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 25 July 1871 · page 3

The Hulfe Gotten Mining Company, held their fifth half-yearly meeting on Saturday last; there was a good attendance of shareholders present, and Mr. Francis James Shaw,…

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Mining Speculators' Roguery.—Cutting the Telegraph Wires

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 8 August 1871 · page 4

A rascally, and, we believe, an unique trick in this colony, was played here on Friday night, by some speculators in Duylesford shares. All last week there was, in…

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Discovery of Coal on the Clarence

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 5 September 1871 · page 3

A correspondent of the Clarence Examiner writes:—A short time ago, while in Mr. Cameron's store, at Rocky Mouth, I was shown some specimens of coal which had been…

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Discovery of Coal on the Clarence

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 9 September 1871 · page 7

A correspondent of the Clarence Examiner writes:—A short time ago, while in Mr. Cameron's store, at Rocky Mouth, I was shown some specimens of coal which had been…

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The Newcastle Harbour. I have shot mine arrow o'er the house, And hurt my brother

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 30 September 1871 · page 2

In our issue of the 12th instant, we took exception to a paragraph, appearing in the S.M. Herald's summary for Europe by the late English mail, and which had reference to certain…

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Lambton Colliery Office. 3, O'Connell-street, Sydney, 30th Nov., 1871

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 5 December 1871 · page 2

The following will be the prices and terms of pay went for Lambton coal until further notice:—Screened coal, 7s. 6d. per ton; macreened, 7s. per ton; small, from 1st January, 1872,…

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The Coal-trade

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 2

WHATEVER the future may have in store for Newcastle; though in years to come our export trade may become varied, great and prosperous—our output of coal then representing…

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The Coal-trade

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 2

One of the greatest drawbacks to the prosperity of Newcastle hitherto, has been an occasional scarcity of tonnage; circular after circular has been despatched complaining of…

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The Reduction in the Price of Coal. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 4

SIR,—Allow me to thank you for the two articles which have appeared in your lost two issues, on the subject of the late reduction in the price of coal by the Lambton Colliery, and the…

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The Coal Trade

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 23 December 1871 · page 2

HITHERTO, in noticing the late reduction in the price of coal, the produce of the Lambton Colliery, we have done so more with the view to lay before the public generally and the…

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