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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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The special advantages of the "iron horse" have been strikingly illustrated on two occasions during the present week on the Wallsend Company's line, the large engine having take up to the pit on two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A MEETING of this lodge was hell in he usual place on Wednesday evening last. There was a good attendance and Mr. J Ripon occupied the chair.—Minutes of previous meeting were then read and confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday last the general committee of this fund held their quaterly meeting in their offices, Grainger Street, Newcastle. Mr. John Howie presided. After the ordinary business…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE monthly meeting of the Anvil Creek miners was held on Tuesday evening, April 6th, Mr. Perks in the chair.—The minutes of previous meeting were read and confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Herald of yesterday says:—A deputation waited upon the Minister for Works, on Thursday, to ask the Government to take into consideration the propriety of constructing a branch line of railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR.—I have before me a letter from the hon. member for this electorate, in which he says, in reference, to the roads. "Both roads have been proclaimed, and for the main one trustees have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In our statement of the number of miners employed In the Wallsend colliery, in our Saturday's issue, an error occurs. We gave the number as 400—it should have been 380…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Saturday last an interview took place between the Northumberland coal owners and a deputation from the Miners' Mutual Confident Association relative to a proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following appears in yesterday's Herald's Brisbane letter:—"Mr. J. V. Mulligan and his comrades, to whom Australia is indebted for the discovery, of the Palmer River Gold-field, have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE lock-out of the colliers, and ironworker of South Wales became on Monday an accomplished fact. The men engaged at the Dowlais and Merthyr works presented themselves at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—The absence of anything approaching truth or delicacy in Mr. Reay's letter of the 7th instant has compelled me, against my wishes, to intrude this into your columns. He has with the most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SPECIAL MEETING of the Greta miners was held at the pit, on Friday evening, April 13. There was but a small attendance, Mr. Barry was in the chair.—The minutes of last meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have received a letter from a shareholder in the above Company, complaining of a paragraph in our Lambton correspondence about this Company. We have examined the same, and fail to find…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →M. Varrenstrasse finds, by recently conducted experiments on the effect of damp air on coal, that the loss in weight, due to a slow oxidation, and to the disengagement of gasses which form the richest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MEETING of the Council of the Miners' National Association was held in Manchester, on Thursday, under the presidency of Mr. A. Macdonald, M.P. Mr. T. Burt, M.P., was also…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DEAR SIR,—In the Newcastle Chronicle of last Saturday appears a letter signed "Lambton," written for the purpose, I presume, of posting the public up with the facts of the case in dispute between the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—I am desirous to make an explanation with regard to our Miners' Union for the Lambton colliery. I have been a firm supporter of the Union, and from some cause I am denied all and every privilege as a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Greta Company's Sinking Pit strock coal this afternoon at a depth of about 410 feet. Since then the sinkers have been busy cutting down some sides they had on; so that little more than the bare…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been informed by the Manager of this colliery (Mr. J. Y. Neilson) that the out-put of coal for the last eight days ending Tuesday, the 20th inst., is greater than during any equal period since the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE quarterly meeting of the above miners was held on Friday night last. Mr. D. Gardner in the chair. The roll was called, and the minutes of last meeting then read and confirmed…
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