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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1879

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Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1879 · page 3

THE monthly meeting of the above was held in the Protestant Hall, on Saturday evening last ; Mr. Allan Wild presiding. The minutes of last meeting were read and…

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Admiralty Experiments with Australian Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1879 · page 2

JUSTICE is at last to be done to Australian coal. The P. and O. Company now use it on their Gaile and Sydney line, and the Cape steamers make good home passages with it…

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Discovery of Coal in Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1879 · page 3

WITH respect to the Moe coal mine, situated about seven miles from the Moe railway station, three from Trafalgar, and about four miles from…

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New Lambton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1879 · page 2

IN the suit, Brown v. Dibbs, the Master in Equity on the 13th inst., directed the Messrs. Dibbs to bring in an account to the court in accordance with the decree of His Honour,…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1879 · page 4

THE above miners held a special meeting in Harris' Assembly Rooms last evening (Tuesday) ; Mr. Gibson presiding…

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A New Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1879 · page 2

THE new coal company at Shag Point, in Otago (says the C. Press), are now about to commence business, and expect they will have their various arrangements completed,…

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Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1879 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the Lambton miners was held in the Druids' Hall, on Thursday evening last, for the purpose of appointing a delegate and two representatives to attend…

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Australasia Coal Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1879 · page 3

MESSRS. DIXON and Fincham, Ms.L.A., have returned (says the Melbourne Age) from their visit of inspection to the mine of the Australasia…

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The Lambton Miners and the Vend. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1879 · page 8

SIR,—The conduct of the Lambton miners in connection with, the vead stands unparalleled in the history of trade unions for gross inconsistency and a…

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The Hygienic Conditions of Coal Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 April 1879 · page 4

SOME Interesting information as to the way in which the human system is affected under the peculiar conditions of work in mines has recently been…

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Miners' Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 April 1879 · page 3

MINUTES of Conference held at Waratah, April 19th, 1879:—The Conference consisted of thirty three representatives from the various…

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Illawarra Miners' Union Demonstration

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1879 · page 3

THE first public demonstration in connection with the Miners' Union recently formed in this district took place on the Bulli Coal Company's Point, at Bulli,…

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The Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 April 1879 · page 3

THE meeting convened by order of the conference on Saturday last, was held at the Music Hall, last evening. There was a very large attendance…

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Special Meeting of the Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 April 1879 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was held in Stoker's Hall on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of considering their expulsion from the Union. There were about…

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The Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 April 1879 · page 5

A SPECIAL meeting of the Globe miners was held in Mr. M. Leo's Miners' Home Hotel, Glebe, on Thursday evening, April 24th, 1879. Mr. M. Londen occupied the chair, and…

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Coal Miners' Strike. Hazelton, Pa, March 4, 1879

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 April 1879 · page 4

THE miners are agitating a strike in the hopes of allevlaing the wretched condition of their finances. Representatives of each region met in this place on…

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Borehole Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 April 1879 · page 2

THE usual monthly meeting of the Borehole miners was held on Saturday evening, at the Black Diamond Hotel, Newcastle. Mr. George M'Lean in the…

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Coal Shipments from British Columbia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1879 · page 2

THE Nanaino Free Press of the 5th publishes the following concerning coal shipments:—The shipments for 1878 reached 190,640 tons as compared with 142,237 tons for 1877, and…

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Gold at the Palmer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1879 · page 2

To convey (says Queensland exchange) an adequate idea of the amount of gold obtained on the Palmer since its discovery, a few figures alone are…

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A. Co.'s Colliery. Fourteenth Check Inspectors Report

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1879 · page 2

AT No. 2 pit bottom we found the then 64 deg. We then went in company with the overman to the galley measuring place ; we found by the mill…

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