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In England in 1878, the quantity of coal raised amounted to 127,016,747 tons of the value of £47,631,280. Of this enormous quantity of coal, the statistics do not show how much was carried by rail…
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Mining & the mines, 1875
715 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 36
Borehole Miners
THE usual monthly meeting of the No. I Borehole Lodge was held at M'Aulifffe's Hotel. Bull-street, Newcastle, on Saturday evening, May 1st. Mr. G. Clulow in the chair. The minutes of last meeting were read…
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AN adjourned meeting of the above miners was held on Friday evening last, in Harris' Assembly Rooms, for the purpose of considering the, present system of medical attendance and dispensing medicine, with the…
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A slight accident occurred at this colliery, on Monday morning, to a miner named Patrick Griffin. It would appear that shortly after [?]oing to work on Monday morning a quantity of coal struck him on…
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The Melbourne correspondent of the Herald says The Western Port Coal Mining Company has no hitherto been a success, for it appear, that some £27,000 have been expended on the concern with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(To the Editor of the Miners' Advocate.)
DEAR SIR,—I trust you will allow me to contradict a statement which appeared in your Lambton correspondence, on Saturday last, of a report of the, delegate from Minmi, in which he says I said:—…
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WE (Mercury) are glad to know-that there is a probability of the coal staiths, long since erected at Morpeth, being used at last habitually and profitably, for the shipment of coals. Many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poetry. the Starved Ones' [?]Ry for Coals. Respectfully Dedicated to the [?]romptly-Acting Coal Distribution Comunittees
Christians, dear Christians, [?] For cinders and sweeping [?] coals to us now, You promised, dear Christian we've none; So soon as your [?] a cartload should come…
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THE usual monthly meeting of the Lambton miners was held in the Druids' Hall, on Wednesday evening last Mr S Johnson in the chair. The General Secretary was…
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THE MONTLY MEETING of the Greta miners was held at the usual place on Tuesday evening, May 4th, Mr. Barry in the chair.—The first business of the meeting was to call the…
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An accident occurred at this colliery on Thursday morning by which a young man named Davidson had one of his feet severly injured. It appears his duty at the pit is to send away the full skips which…
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THE usual monthly meeting of the New Lambton lodge was held at Lowe's hotel, on Tuesday evening, the 4th inst.—Mr. J Rippon in the chair. The General Secretary was…
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THE above picnic will be held to-day (Saturday); and, judging from the interest taken in the matter it will doubtless be a success. This will be the second occasion on which the miners…
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SIR,—I am desirous of giving to the public a clear and candid statement of the origin of the dispute between the miners of Lambton Colliery Union and myself, viz.:—Six weeks before the caviling or quarter…
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demonstration took place on Saturday the Newcastle Cricket Ground. About [?] ten o'clock the Wallsend train [?] with the miners, and accompanied…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Vale of Clwydd Coal Mine. (To the Editor of the Miners' Advocate.)
SIR,—It was not any intention to have troubled you any further respecting the above; but as I evidently hit the mark, and have brought forth a confession from the anticipated culprit. I shall take it as a great…
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Is accordance with the motion passed at the last meeting of the Lambton miners a special meeting was held on Monday evening for the purpose of hearing the report of the deputation…
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We have issued a supplement with this number containing a full report of the great miners' demonstration held on Saturday last.—In connection with the number present, Mr. Wood, the General Secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GRAND Miners' Demonstration. General Picnic
THE second annual gathering of the members [?] the Miners' Association of the Hunter River District took place on Saturday last, in the Newcastle Cricket Ground, for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(To the Editor of the Miners' Advocate.)
SIR,—I am a very old lady, and compelled to ask your kind advice. In this village we are dreadfully pestered with a lot of big boys, some nineteen years old, and they cannot find any employment of nights…
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