(To the Editor of the Miners' Advocate.)
DEAR SIR,—I see by your issue of Wednesday that "A Working Man", says he has received a great deal of injustice by the miners tendering. How that can be I do not…
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Mining & the mines, 1874
602 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 31
Discovery of Coal in New Zealand
Late New Zealand news states that a scam of lignite coal, ten feet thick, and of good quality, has been discovered in the Forty-mile Bush by the General Government survey party. The spot is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Harper and the Business People of Lambton. (To the Editor of the Miners' Advocate.)
SIR,—Observing a somewhat lengthy correspondence in your columns of Wednesday last from Messrs. Harper, Yates, and Lewis on the above subject, permit me, as a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LAMBTON. Miners' Meeting
The usual monthly meeting of the Waratah Miners' Association was held in the Recha bites' Hall, Lambton, on Friday night last. Mr. Peter Grant in the chair…
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The export of coal from Newcastle for the week ending Friday, August 14th, amounted, to 20,614 tons, 4757 tons of which were shipped to Sydney, 6740 to Melbourne, 305 to Adelaide, 278 to Wallarro,…
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THE members of the No. 4 Waratah Lodge held their monthly meeting on Friday night last, Mr. Peter Grant the chair. There was a very fair attendance.—The minutes of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Wallsend Coal Company
The Herald states that the first yearly meeting of the above company—was held on Friday last, and the report and balance-sheet were adopted. The chairman made a few remarks in submitting the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Glance at the Condition of Miners
AT the time when coal first began to be extensively dog for fuel, and for a considerable while after, the relations between the pitmen and their employers were very different from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →(To the Editor of the Miners' Advocate.)
SIR.—Will you permit, me in the columns of your widely circulated and popular journal, to make a few statements, as so much has been said and written by your Greta and other…
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SIR,—I ask permission through your valuable and widely circulated papers to make a few remark on the new system of paying at the Co-operative colliery. You will be aware that tribute men were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(To the Editor of the Miners' Advocate.)
SIR,—There is an old adage "If you have a bad case abuse your adversary," which your correspondents in Saturday's issue, signed "A Business Man," has been mean enough in resort to in attempting to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Harper and the Business People of Lambton. (To the Editor of the Miners' Advocate)
SIR.—Kindly allow me a space in your valuable paper to answer a few of Messrs. Harper and Yates' abusive, untruthful, and malicious assertions. It is not my intention…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dangers of Mining a Chapter of Accidents. a Youth Jammed by a Skip.—Another run over by a Loaded Skip of 12 cwt.—A boy kicked by a horse, &c., &c
IT is again our painful duty to revert to a series of accidents that have happened during the past two days from work connected with mining. On Monday last a lad named Keogh…
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The Tasmanian Tribune of last week states:—Our special reporter, who returned From Turn bridge yesterday, brought in a sample of coal presented to him by Mr. Bailey of that district. The coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miner's Meetings. Wallsend Miners
LAST evening (Friday) the monthly meeting of the Wallsend miners was held in Harris' rooms. There was a large attendance. The Local chairman, Mr. David Baird, presided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gold Coast
It may be gathered from Lord Carnarvon's statement on Tuesday evening, that he does not propose his policy on the Gold Coast as a good thing in itself, but as the least bad thing…
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A deputation of lessees and proprietors of coal lands near Cabbage Tree Bay, Brisbane Water district, had an interview with the Minister for Lands yesterday with the object of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lambton. Miners' Meeting
A special general meeting of the Waratah Miners' Association was held at Dr. Jenkins's, Prince of Wales Hotel, on Friday night last; Mr. Frederick Downey in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Under Sydney. To the Editor of the Herald
Sir—In to-day'a issue appears a letter signed "Inquirer," wanting to know whether it would pay to raise coal from under Sydney, and asking for further ventilation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cleveland Ironstone Miners. the Mines to Be Closed
ON Saturday, a meeting of the Council of the Ironstone Miners' Association was held at Saltburn. After transacting ordinary business, the Council considered the resolution passed by…
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