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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1879

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

The Lambton Colliery Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 December 1879 · page 2

WE learn that the Lambton Colliery Company has secured the contract for the supply of coal for the Victorian Railways for the year 1880. The contract is for the supply of…

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The Receiver for New Lambton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 December 1879 · page 2

IT will be interesting for the working men of the mining district to know that Mr. COMBES, the receiver appointed for the New Lambton Colliery,…

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Ferndale Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1879 · page 4

The Ferndale miners' held their monthly meeting on Monday evening last, Mr. Wm. Goodhew in the chair. Minutes of previous meetings having been read and confirmed…

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Stoppage of Miners Emigration

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1879 · page 2

THE Morning Post says that during the past few days a scare has taken possession of a large proportion of the miners at Durham and Northumberland consequent on the…

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Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 December 1879 · page 3

THE above miners held their usual monthly meeting on Saturday last, in the Hall, Mr. W. Hogg in the chair. Minutes of previous meeting were read and…

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Coal for Victorian Railways

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 December 1879 · page 2

THE tender of Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co., says the Age of the 15th inst., for the supply and carriage of 52,000 tons of coal, was accepted by the Railway department on…

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Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 December 1879 · page 4

THE adjourned meeting from Saturday was resumed on Monday evening, when officers were elected as follows:—Chairman. Mr. W. Hogg re-elected; Secrectary. Mr. W. Evans,…

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The Proposal to Mine for Coals Under Throsby's Creek

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 December 1879 · page 4

A WELL attended meeting of the owners of property, on the shores of Throsby's Creek, took place in the Wickham Council Chambers, on Tuesday evening, concerning the…

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The Iron Trades and the Minimi Colliery. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 December 1879 · page 5

SIR,—A letter appeared in your issue of the 10th, signed ''A lover of fair play," in answer to ours, which appeared in your issue of Saturday…

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Final Departure of the Military from the Mining Townships

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 December 1879 · page 2

ON Tuesday evening the detachment of the Permanent Force, which had been stationed at Raspberry Gully for some weeks, left for Sydney in the steamer "City of Brisbane," under…

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Proposed Emigration of Coal Miners to America

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 December 1879 · page 8

THE movement which has lately been set on foot, under the auspices of Mr. Alexander Macdonald, M P., to encourage emigration of the Yorkshire and Scotch…

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Fatal Colliery Explosion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 December 1879 · page 8

A disastrous explosion occurred on Monday morning, Sept. 22nd at the Ebbw Vale Collieries. The pit in which the accident happened is known…

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