Ferndale Seam Coal
We would direct attention to the announcement of Messrs. Bland and Williams in another column, that they have opened their No. 2 Ferndale…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1879
392 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 20
Terrible Colliery Explosion. Twenty-eight Men Killed
AT six o'clock on Thursday morning, July 10, an explosion cured in High Banytre Pit, belonging to Messrs. Dixon. Twenty-seven men are killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Outrage Upon Miners at South Waratah
WE are in possession of some folly reliable particulars concerning an outrage that took piece on Thursday night, upon three miners working at South Waratah Colliery, but not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Borehole Miners' Monthly Meeting
THE usual monthly meeting of the Borehole miners was held at Hackworthy's Black Diamond Hotel, Newcastle, on Saturday evening, at half-past 6 o'clock. Mr. Samuel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sale of the Australasia Coal Company, Limited
THE whole of the above extensive property, as will be seen from an advertisement, is to be offered at auction in Melbourne, on Wednesday, the 24th inst., at noon. Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Morehead, the Miners, and the Vend. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—Judging from the information afforded in your issues of Saturday and Monday last, the old diplomatic tactics of the Lambton autocrat are again brought into…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CORRESPONDENCE. "Take time that your letters may be shorter." Douglas Jerrold. (To the Editor of the Miners' Advocate.)
SIR,—Things in this district are drifting into a pretty moss at last. A proposal was made by the Lambton miners to work eleven days per fortnight,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Executive Committee
UNITS of Executive Committee, held at [?] on Tuesday, September 16th, 1979. The meeting was called to consider a [?] received from the Secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Executive Committee
WE are desired by the General Secretary of the Miners' Union to draw the particular attention of the members of the H. R. Miners' Association to the minutes of the Executive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Co-operative Miners
A special meeting of the above named miners met in the Protestant Hall, Plattsburg, on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Hogg in the chair. The minutes of the conference…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sinking for Coal
WE observe that the operation of sinking for the A.A. Company's seam of coal, which has being going on for about nine weeks past, near to the Company's bridge, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. Wallsend. Wallsend Miners
A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was held in Harris' Assembly Rooms on Wednesday evening, Mr. G. Reay in the chair. The meeting was called to consider the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seventy Miners en route for Sydney. ADELAIDE
About seventy miners left to-day for Sydney. A large number were unwilling to leave; probably to some extent being influenced by the rise in the price of copper…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tighe's Hill. Miners' Meeting
A special general meeting of the Ferndale miners was held on Thursday evening, at Miller's Hotel, to consider the letter from the Associated Masters, and also the business…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Miners' General Secretary. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—Would you kindly allow me a small space to say a few words in reference to what transpired in the Wallsend and Co-operative miners' meetings, as reported in your…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Resignation of the Miners' General Secretary
THE following letter has been kindly handed to us by Mr. Wm. Davies, the District Chairman, for publication in this journal:— "Glebe, Newcastle,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal at Murrurundi
WHEN we visited Mr. Yate's place of operations a few days ago (says the Murrurundi Times), the shaft was 120 feet deep, the conglomerate had been got through, and good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Engagement of 130 Miners
WE are informed by the General Secretary (Mr. John Dixon) that he received a letter from Adelaide yesterday (Monday) morning, stating that 130 men had been engaged at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?]Ecial Miners' Meeting
[?] meeting of the above miners was [?] last evening, Mr. J. Gibson in the [?] Chairman stated that the meeting had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victorian Coal
Two tenders were opened on Friday by the Railway department, for the supply of 1,000 tons of Victorian coal, and as both were informal they were referred to Mr. Lavater,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →