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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
602 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 31
ON Saturday, a meeting of representatives from 260 collieries, representing 40,000 miners, was held in the Lecture Hall of the Mechanics' Institute, Newcastle-on-Tyne, for the purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As numerous and varied reports have been circulating in the district with reference to the find of coal by the Australasia Company on their property at Winding Creek, I was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE above Conference was held on Monday last at the A. A. Company's office, Newcastle, and from the subjoined report it will be seen that it has been agreed to settle local disputes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE adjourned conference of the managers and delegates of the associated collieries was held in the A. A. Company's Office, Newcastle, on Monday, 23rd inst., for the purpose of deciding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NORTHUMBERLAND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—Preparations are already being commenced in connection with the forthcoming show, which takes place in February next, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE LATE COLLIERY FIRE.—We are glad to state that the fire in the Waratah colliery has been extinguished by the strenuous exertions of the overseers and men, and all damage is now…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SAMPLES 1 and 2 were taken from the seam which has recently been sunk to on Winding Creek. The coal occurs at a depth of between 8…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been kindly favoured with the following letter, received by Mr. Hannell, member for the county, on the above subject:—"General Post Office. Sydney. 26th Nov., 1874.—Sir.—In reply to your…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir.—I notice, in your issue of the 21st, that my name appears rather prominently in the news from Greta, in the form of having violated a rule of the Miners' Union. The fact, or intention, I simply,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Mr. Combes' motion on the minute of his Excellency the Governor, on the subject of the release of the prisoner Gardiner, discussed in Parliament on Tuesday last, affords another most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SPECIAL MEETING of this lodge was held on Friday evening last in Harris' Assembly Rooms, Wallsend. Owing doubtless to the heavy rain which fell about seven o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Greta miners was held on Thursday evening, Nov. 26th. Mr. Joseph Bird in the chair. The Chairman stated that the meeting had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held at Mr. T. Lundy's, on Saturday, Nov. 28, Mr. R. Ingram in the chair. There was a good attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An important Paper has been rend before the Social Science Congress of France, from which it appears that portions of coal have been obtained below the Red Sandstone. On the strength…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In your leading article of Wednesday last great stress in put[?] on what I am reported to have said at the Waratah Miners' Meeting, held on Thursday, the 19th instant; and why I should have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FOR some time past rumour with her thousand tongues has had it that the Lambton Coal Company intends to reduce the selling price of coal; but the act being of such a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—My attention having been drawn to a letter which appeared in the issue of your journal of Saturday, the 21st November in[?]tant, reflecting, to a certain extent, upon the officers of the society,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of the delegates of the various collieries, was held on Tuesday evening last, at Lambton, when the following minutes were passed:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A trial of coal cutting machines, reported in the Colliery Guardian, took place at Haddington, near Edinburgh, when several were tried on a face of coal built and bolted together to resemble a coal seam as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE regret to say that we are compelled to hold over our leader on this subject to a future issue. We consider it of vast importance to the miners who are rearing families in the district, and…
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