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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
317 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 16
SIR,—Your sub-leader of yesterday, and the general chairman's remarks to the Hamilton miner's meeting, announcing the death-knell of the agreement which has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TERRIBLE accident occurred on Saturday (says the Melbourne Age) at the claim of the Britannia Quartz Company, Ballart East, by which two miners, William Martin and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MOST people are looking forward to a gloomy new year on account of the wreck of the agreement, which has been such a been to the district. There may be some poor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Check Inspectors' report that they examined the abovenamed mine on the 15th September, 1878. "We started at the down-cast at the top…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TELEGRAM to the Christchurch Press, from Auckland, September 19, states that the Taupiri coal-miners have all gone out on strike for 2s. 9d. a ton, being 6d. more than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE most lamentable calamity that has ever occurred in this district, took place at the Lambton Colliery yesterday, in which the Manager, Mr. Thomas Martyn Seymour,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the Assembly last night, the Minister of Railways stated that the Government intended, in future, to get all the coal required direct from the collieries to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Wednesday morning, at eleven o'clock, Mr. Coroner Pearse and a jury of twelve, (of whom Mr. Uriah Broom was chosen foreman), held an inquest on the bodies of Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT has been stated that the associated colliery owners concerned in the Newcastle trade have determined to end the agreement under which 14s per ton is now the selling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Thursday afternoon the remains of Mr. Thomas Martyn Seymour, late manager of Lambton Colliery, and Mr. Robert Brown, one of the workmen, both of whom lost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Coroner's inquiry into the deaths of Thomas Martyn Seymour and Robert Brown was resumed at Mr. Stoker's hall at 10 o'clock yesterday (Friday) morning, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE quarterly meeting of the above lodge was held in Mr. W. Auld's Assembly Rooms, on Monday evening. October 1st, 1878. Mr. Wm. Pearson in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held on Saturday evening last. There was a good attendance, but the business was of a purely local nature, and of no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DURING the past few weeks the all absorbing topic amongst every member of the community has been the probable selling price of coal and the fate of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE understand that the scheme propounded by the District Officers of the Coal Miners' Union, has already been submitted to the miners employed at four of the collieries, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SPECIAL, meeting of the above miners was held at Harris' Assembly Rooms, on Thursday evening last, for the purpose of hearing the delegates report of the business done at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SPECIAL meeting of the Borehole miners was held at the Black Diamond Hotel, Blane-street, last evening. There was a crowded attendance. The business was the discussion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Associated Masters held a meeting yesterday, for the purpose, we believe, of considering the price of coal for the next year. Their deliberations have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL meeting of the Lambton miners and other employees was held in the Music Hall, Lambton, on Thursday, for the purpose of electing a medical officer for the colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN our issue of Thursday last, we informed our readers that the Associated Masters had held a meeting in Newcastle on the day previous, for the purpose…
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