The Australasia Co.'s Mine
IT will be soon on reference to our telegraphic columns that the Australasia Coal Company's mine, near Newcastle, was offered at auction to-day, in Melbourne The auctioneers…
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Mining & the mines, 1879
392 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 20
Victorian Coal Tests. MELBOURNE
The railway department are making a test to try whether fuel composed of one-third coal and the remainder lignite would not be cheaper than coal alone. The results of the…
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WE have been favoured with a specimen of coal from Dr. Gordon's shaft at Murrurundi The shaft has been sunk to a depth of 125 to 130 feet. The specimen was got out with a…
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ON Wednesday afternoon, at 2.25, the steamer 'Leura' from Melbourne arrived in Port Jackson with seventy-one miners for the Waratah Coal Co. Of this number sixty-two…
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MR. J. M. SOLOMON, the Chairman of the Destitute Board (says the Adelaide Evening Journal, of the 15th instant), waited on the Chief Secretary (Hon. W. Morgan), on…
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IT is nearly forty years since I became conversant with Newcastle and its coal trade. When I first knew it, the A.A. Company had a monopoly of it, and its output seldom…
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IN accordance with a numerously signed requisition, a public meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held in the Protestant Hall, Plattsburg, on Tuesday evening last, to…
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BY steamer late on Thursday night there arrived a further number of sixteen miners for South Waratah. The whole of them were taken on by steamer to the Waratah…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District News. Wallsend. Miners Meeting
THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held on Friday last, Mr. J. Gibson in the chair. All minutes of business transacted during the month were read and…
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THE shaft which has been sunk by Mr. Yates (says the M. Times of Saturday last), near the Haydonton Railway Station, can now in reality be termed a coal mine, a rich seam…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence the Military and the Miners. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—In reading your correspondent's, report relative to the Government sending out the military, I certainly must beg to differ from the speakers upon that occasion;…
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The adjourned meeting from Saturday evening last was resumed on Monday evening in the Hall, Mr. A. Wild in the chair. The Secretary, before reading the minutes…
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THE Queensland Government (says an E. News telegram) intend sending out a gold prospecting party to the sources of the Flinders, the Cape, and the Clarke Rivers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CORRESPONDENCE "Take time that your letters may be shorter." Douglas Jerrold. Strike of the Coal-cliff Miners. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—On receipt of your paper, to-day, I was both amused and astonished to read in your Sydney telegram column that the Coalcliff miners were on strike. I am happy to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Miners' Strike at Sandhurst. SANDHURST
The strike on Saturday was in the Hercules and Energetic, Unity, Thanet, No. 222, No. 180, and Bellevue United mines, employing 160 miners. Mr. George Lansell is sole…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CORRESPONDENCE "Take time that your letters may be shorter." Douglas Jerrold. a Miners' Exhibition Holiday. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—Having seen by a former issue of your valuable journal that it was intended by the Minmi and Wallsend Companies to give their employes a trip to Sydney at an early date,…
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THE monthly meeting of the above miners was held at the Black Diamond Hotel, Newcastle on Saturday last, Mr. S. Salby in the chair. The minutes of previous meetings…
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THE following vessels left the Grey on Oct. 6th:—The three-masted schooner Mary Wadley, for Napier, with 210 tons coal; the Eliza Firth, for Melbourne, with 190 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence the Waratah Colliery Output (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—In your issue of the 6th inst., the correspondent at Charlestown gives some information having special reference to the working of the colliery with the new hands…
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[?] LARGE and well attended meeting [?] miners was held at Dawson's Hotel, [?]fton, on Saturday evening, to consider the proposed reduction of wages…
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