The Bulli Colliery
Owing to the Chinese difficulty now pending at Sydney, the Bulli Colliery is still idle, the Company's steamers lying in Port Jackson, laden with coal for the A. S. N…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1878
317 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 16
Newcastle and N. Z. Coal
THE following is of interest as indicating the narrowness of the limits within which the demand for our Newcastle coal can ever be effected by the New Zealand competition,…
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With reference to a paragraph referring to the above, from our Lambton correspondent, which appeared in yesterday's issue, we may say in addition that the matter was discussed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Barrington Goldfield
A GENTLEMAN who returned from this field yesterday has furnished us with a few items, which will doubtless prove of interest. The two crushing machines are at a standstill for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to a Coal Train
YESTERDAY morning, about 9 o'clock, an accident happened to a coal train which was coming in from New Lambton. The train had reached the railway yard at…
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WE are favoured by Mr. Thomas Frency, surveyor, with a very interesting and graphic account of a burning mountain whose existence has, strange to say, hitherto been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thirteenth Check - Inspector's Report of A. A. Company's Mines
WE first examined the now pit, at the pit bottom; ther. 64º. In company with the overman, we went to the crosscut measuring place, where we found by the mill 16,380…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. the Greta Miners. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
Sir,—The long expected works at. Anvil Creek have commenced at last. A tender has been accepted for the excavation of tunnel, and also for timber forms. I may remark…
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THE Otago Daily Times, of 4th inst., says:—According to the tender for supply of coal which was received by the City Council, the Greymouth coal will be more expensive than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. the Anvil Creek Miners. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—In looking over your paper to-day, I saw a letter signed "Argus," in which the writer endeavours to show that there has been no necessity for the stand we took in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Important News From the Barrington Gold-field
STILL the cry is for rain, but it does not come. Both machines are still idle, their dams being completely dry. The creek has not been running for weeks. It is only by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Anvil Creek Miners. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—A letter appears in your Saturday's issue, signed "Argus," wherein the detracter brands the miners of Anvil Creek with being idlers, &c., and would infer that…
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WE have been favored with the perusual of a portion of the contents of a private letter from Mr. T. P. Moody at the Bay of Islands, N. Z., to a gentlemen in this district. "He…
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WE understand that the request of the district officers of the Miners Association, to the proprietors and managers of the different collieries not to employ any additional labour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. Anvil Creek Miners. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
Sir,—I notice in your issue of Saturday last, 14th inst., a letter headed " Greta Miners." and signed "Argus:' Argus says that the new tunnel is started, and that the old pit is still closed,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. the Anvil Creek Miners. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—I perceive that the Miners' General Secretary has taken: exception to my letter or, Saturday last, signed "Argus," and further, he wishes to know my name. I can assure the G. S. that I have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Important News From the Barrington Gold-field Gloucester, Friday, 2.35 p.m
SPLENDID gold has been found on the Bowman Alluvial Rush, half-a-mile from the township. The Lady Belmore's crushing of 100 tons yielded 374 oz…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence. Anvil Creek Miners. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—In your issue of Tuesday last, I noticed a letter signed "Daniel Canty." As he, in that letter, acknowledges to be the writer of the one signed "Argus," I shall, with your kind…
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