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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1873

157 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 8

Facilities for Loading Coal

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 12 July 1873 · page 3

We clip the following from the Evening News as deserving of consideration. We have no doubt the discussion which is now going on will clear up many of the disputed points and…

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Mining Intelligence

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 15 July 1873 · page 4

GOLD.—HILL END- The Times reports that one of the most noticeable facts in connection with mining on the Hill at present is the close proximity to the working of Carroll and…

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Letters to the Editor. We do not hold ourselves responsible for opinions expressed by our Correspondents Coal Trimming Lighterage and Stevedores To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 15 July 1873 · page 3

SIR—We are again compelled to solicit a small space in your esteemed paper in order to refute a few statements made lately concerning the now-so-much ventilated question of the…

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Mining Intelligence

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 17 July 1873 · page 3

IRONBARKS.—The Ironbarks correspondent of the Western Examiner sends the following respecting the mining interest in that district: —" The weather of late has been very…

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Mining Intelligence

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 22 July 1873 · page 4

A telegram from Cooma, received on Friday, states that Messrs. Moses, Solomon and Co., have struck a lode of tin at Monkbar reef, five feet wide. A specimen, six pounds weight of…

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Lord Nelson Tin-mining Company

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 24 July 1873 · page 2

A meeting of the shareholders of this company was held last evening, at Mr. Gardner's office, Bolton-street, for the purpose of receiving the report of the directors and transacting other…

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Lithgow Valley Coal-field

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 29 July 1873 · page 3

The famous Zigzag has hitherto been the great lion of the neighbourhood. It well deserves its reputation. All persons who have not seen it should pay it a visit; it will bear repeated…

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The English Mines' Regulation Acts

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 31 July 1873 · page 4

Two Acts, passed in the late session of the British Parliament, to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the regulation of coal-mines (35 and 36, Vic., cap. 76), and also to…

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Mining Intelligence

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 9 August 1873 · page 5

North Williams Gold-mining Company.—The mining manager reports as follows, under date of the 4th instant:—"The contractors have sunk the shaft eleven feet during the fortnight, the…

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Our Coal and Coal Ports

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 19 August 1873 · page 4

The following communication from Mr. Shoobert, appears in the Herald of yesterday:—While at Bulli a few days since, your paper of the 7th instant reached me, and I find a paper…

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The Victorian Coal-fields

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 19 August 1873 · page 4

The following is the report of Mr. John Mackenzie, F.G.S., Government Examiner of Coal-fields, New South Wales, on the coal-fields of the southeastern district of Victoria:…

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The Diamond and Gold Discoveries at Bingera and Its Neighbourhood. No. 1

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 21 August 1873 · page 3

Would that in my school days (and I daresay it is the feeling with many others), I had listened more attentively to the proffered instruction in what I used to consider the hard subjects brought…

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Mount Pleasant Colliery. District Court, Thursday, August 14Th. (Before his Honor Judge M'Farland.)

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 23 August 1873 · page 4

Robert J. Thornton v. Robert Haworth and Patrick Lahiff, for £30, for loss of time and pay by having been discharged from Mount Pleasant Colliery without fourteen days notice…

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Proposed Company for the Working of Coal at Port Stephens

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 28 August 1873 · page 3

In the Melbourne Age of the 21st instant, to hand, we find a paragraph, from which it would appear that a movement has been act on foot to got up a company in Melbourne for the purpose…

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Dreadful, Accident at the Waratah Colliery

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 30 August 1873 · page 4

We yesterday learnt, with much regret, that an accident of a dreadful nature happened at the Waratah Tunnels, to a miner named Benjamin Salmon, who likewise keeps a boot and shoe shop…

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The Judgment in the Mount Pleasant Colliery Case

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 2 September 1873 · page 4

The following is a copy of the written judgment given in the above causes by his Honor Judge M'Farland:— The facts and, questions involved in these…

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The Victorian Coal-fields

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 4 September 1873 · page 4

THE following is the second report of Mr. John Mackenzie, F.G.S., Government examiner of coal-fields, New South Wales, on the coal-fields of Victoria:—…

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The Coal-fields of China

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 6 September 1873 · page 4

The coal-fields of China extend over 100,000 square miles, whereas the area of the English coal-bearing strata covers only 12,000 square miles. Mr. Akroyd recently drew the…

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Coal. Latest Through Telegrams. Australian Associated Press Telegrams. London. Wednesday, september 3

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 6 September 1873 · page 2

Admiral Yelverton has removed the men of war ships seized from the Carlists to Gibraltar. The Great Britain, ship, arrived in…

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The Greta Coal and Shale Mink, Anvil Creek

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 18 September 1873 · page 3

For a period of forty-eight weeks, closing on Saturday, the preliminary steps in the development of a great and important enterprise have been proceeding at Greta, aided by a…

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