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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1879

392 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 20

Vegetable Creek Tin Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 October 1879 · page 5

[?]MINING at Vegetable Creek is reported as [?] very brisk, owing to recent heavy [?]ces the price of tin. Deep-sinking [?]pecting in (says the Glen Innes Examiner),…

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Co-operative Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 October 1879 · page 3

THE usual monthly meeting of the above [?]niers was held on Saturday evening, Mr. W. Hogg in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were…

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District News. Wallsend. Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 October 1879 · page 3

[?] usual monthly mooting of the above [?]ers was held on Saturday evening; Mr. [?] Gibson in the chair. Two minutes of last meeting were read and…

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The Mountain Maid Mining Co

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1879 · page 2

AN extraordinary meeting was convened this morning by some of the shareholders of the Mountain Maid Mining Company to test a subject which carries a good deal of interest…

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The Trial of the Miners at Maitland. (To the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 October 1879 · page 3

SIR,—I have scarcely had breathing time, since the above trial, to make known what I believe to be a foul blot on the administration of justice, as de acing the soirit of fairness that should pervade all criminal…

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Charge of Intimidation Against Three Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1879 · page 4

At the East Maitland Police Court, on Friday, October 24. (Before Mr. Addison, P.M., and Messrs F. H. Bartlett, and Wm. Eckford, J's P.), John Fletcher, James Jones…

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Associated Masters' and Miners' Conference. SYDNEY, Wednesday, 6.46 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 October 1879 · page 2

The Conference between the Associated Masters' and Miners' representatives took place to-day. No further arrangement was come to concerning the agreement other than…

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Boring for Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 5

THE attempt to tap the seam of coal on the A.A. Company's ground, in the vicinity of their wharf, still continues. The borers had up to yesterday reached a depth of 215 feet,…

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[From the Sydney Papers.] Fall of Coal at the Bulli Mine. WOLLONGONG

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 November 1879 · page 2

A fall of coal at the Bulli Mine, estimated to weigh three tons, took place to-day, and croushed a miner named Cavill, causing serious injuries. Dr. Lyons proceeded to the…

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Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 November 1879 · page 5

A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was held on Friday evening to receive the delegate's report of the late Conference. The report was similar to that given at the…

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The Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company V. Watson

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 November 1879 · page 2

THE trial of this action for damages for a collision between a silt punt, when being towed by the Government steam-tug Ajax, in Newcastle harbour, and the plaintiff's…

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Frightful Mining Accident in Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 November 1879 · page 3

A TELEGRAM from Sandhurst to the Sydney Daily Telegraph states that a frightful mining accident occurred at the Garden Gully Freehold mine on Saturday morning, resulting in…

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New Lambton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 November 1879 · page 2

WE see by a telegram from our Sydney correspondent that his Honor Judge Hargrave has agreed to suspend the injunction granted on Tuesday last, upon the application of…

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Hamilton. Borehole Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 November 1879 · page 2

THE regular monthly meeting of the above miners was held on Saturday night last, at Mr. J. Williams' Assembly Rooms, Hamilton; Mr. J. Duke in the chair. Minutes of…

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The Miners' Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 November 1879 · page 4

AT the meeting of the miners' delegates and their employers, held in College Lane Schoolroom on Saturday, the following resolutions were proposed on…

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The Collision Between the Eagle and the Ajax. Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company V. Wat On

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 November 1879 · page 3

In the Supreme Court, on Wednesday, November 11. before his Honour Mr. Justice Windeyer and the following jury: Messrs. David G. E. Alsop, John Young, James…

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The Newcastle Coal Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 November 1879 · page 2

WE understand that the whole of the rolling stock of the Australasian Coal Company has recently been sold by the late purchaser to the Newcastle Coal Company. The latter…

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A.a. Co's Mine. Sixteenth Check-inspector's Report

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 November 1879 · page 3

We started at Hamilton Pit cross-cut side; we measured the air at the measuring place; we found by the mill 20 970 cubic feet of air per minute going this side of the pit. There…

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Australasia Coal Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 November 1879 · page 2

IN reference to the paragraph in yesterday's issue, stating that the whole of the rolling stock of the above company had been sold to the Newcastle Coal Mining Company, we…

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Coal on the Redhead Estate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1879 · page 2

MESSRS. STEEL Brothers, who are engaged testing the Redhead Estate for coal, have recently, at a depth of 476 feet, come across a fine seam five feet and three-quarters of an…

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