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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1877

329 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 17

Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1877 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of these miners was held on Wednesday evening, for the transaction of certain business connected with the "balloted out men" The finance committee read…

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Co Operative Miners. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1877 · page 4

SIR,—Being at a meeting of the Co-operate miners on Saturday, April 14th I was very forcibly struck with part of the proceedings…

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Colliery Explosion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1877 · page 8

On the 8th of this month an explosion of fire-damp occurred i[?]he W[?]new pit, [?] abouts two [?] Sw[?] reasiling in the loss of [?] . The men…

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Our Mineral Resources Mines, Mining, Mining Require Ments, Etc. Written for the Herald & Advocate. [Continued From Saturday's Issue.]

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1877 · page 2

9. New Inventions, relating to Mining Metallurgy, &c., should receive every encouragement from the State, and until the report of a commission,…

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The Moafatairi Mine. New Zealand

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1877 · page 3

THE correspondent of the New Zealand Herald telegraphs on the 3rd instant that half a ton of specimens was broken out in the morning, and that the…

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Borehole Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 April 1877 · page 2

THE usual monthly meeting of the above millers was held at the Black Diamond Hotel, Blane-street, Newcastle, on Saturday evening last; Mr. George Clulow in…

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Gold at Bingera

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 May 1877 · page 2

A very rich gold-reef has been struck at Upper Bingera. One bucket of quartz is estimated to yield two pounds of gold…

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Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 May 1877 · page 2

THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held in the Druids' Hall, Lambton, on Wednesday evening; Mr. E. N. Brown in the chair…

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Coal Mines [?]Ulation Act, 1876. (To the Editor the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1877 · page 2

Sir.—Known that the Inspector of Coal Mines had been pointed by Government in this colony [?] after I had left the H. R. district to fortune on the Victorian…

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Coal in Tasmania

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1877 · page 3

THE Hobart Town Mercury, writing about the mineral resourses of Tasmania thus refers to the coal mining industry: "Gold may be added, and enterprise…

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Supply of Coal for Railway Engines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1877 · page 2

MR. DAVIES asked the Secretary for Public Works, in the Assembly, on Wednesday night,—" 1. How many tenders were received for the supply of…

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Coal in the Country of Cumber[?]and

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 May 1877 · page 3

THE following is an extract from a paper read before the Australia Philosophical Society (now the Royal Society):—"On the undeveloped Resources of the County of Cumberland," by the…

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The Ainwick Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 May 1877 · page 3

IN the Supreme Court, Sydney, on Thursday, the following cases of interest Thursday, the following cases of interest HEWISON V. O BRIEN AND OTHERS…

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Cost of American Coal Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 May 1877 · page 2

In 1873 the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company expended 251 dols, per ton in raising each ton of coal produced by it. In 1874, the…

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South Yorkshire and Derbyshire Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 May 1877 · page 2

The whole of these men, numbering altogether about 35,000, have agreed to accept a reduction in wages to the extent of 6½ per cent, from next month's first…

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Reduction in the Price of Coal to the Government

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 May 1877 · page 4

FROM the answer given by the Secretary for Public Works in the Assembly on Wednesday, 2nd instant, to the questions of Mr. DAVIES, it would appear that the…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 May 1877 · page 2

THE usual monthly meeting of these miners was held on Friday evening, in Harris' rooms. There was a moderate attendance, and Mr. Thomas Magee presided. The minutes of…

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Proposed Increase of Coal Miners' Working Hours in the Mother Country

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 May 1877 · page 2

THE Colliery Guardian of a late issue, devotes a leading article to the purpose of endeavouring to prove the necessity for the miners in the counties of Durham…

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Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 May 1877 · page 2

THE usual monthly meeting of these miners was held on Saturday evening, Lorey's rooms. There was a good attendance, and Mr. W. Laing presided. The minutes of…

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Greta Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 May 1877 · page 2

THE monthly meeting of the Greta miners was held on Tuesday evening last at the Mechanics' Institute. Mr. Wa[?]kin Jenkins occupied the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting…

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