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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1880

573 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 29

The Coal Miners and Their Wages. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 May 1880 · page 3

SIR,—Through your kindness in publishing my first letter on the above subject, I am again enboldened to ask space for the purpose of still…

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The Ferndale Miners' Collection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 May 1880 · page 2

Our Tighe's Hill correspondent writes as follows;—"The miners had a very good pay here on Friday last, and, like true-hearted men (for which they are…

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Affairs at the Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 May 1880 · page 2

As a result of the announcement made in our last issue that the "blacklegs" employed at the Borehole pit were engaged getting round coal as well as small,…

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Stoppage of Work at the Ferndale Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 May 1880 · page 2

We understand that the miners and others employed at the Ferndale Colliery will receive to-morrow (Tuesday) fourteen days' notice that their services will be no…

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TELEGRAMS. The Newcastle Miners' Strike. SYDNEY, Saturday, 9.15 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 May 1880 · page 2

A DEPUTATION consisting of Mr. Curley, and Messrs. T. White, and W. Harkness (Trades and Labour Council), waited on the Currier's Society to-night. The…

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Advice to the Coal Proprietors. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 May 1880 · page 3

SIR,—It is a mystery to me what the coal proprietors at Newcastle want. As a shareholder of the Wallsend Coal Company, I protest…

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Coal Cliff Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1880 · page 2

THE Illawarra Mercury of 28th says:—Trade still continues as brisk as any one can wish. During last week, something like 1600 tons of coal were shipped by the…

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Affairs at the Mines. Browns' Collieries, Minmi

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1880 · page 2

IT was reported in town that the overseers and other officials of Messrs. Browns' collieries commenced filling small coal yesterday, but that in consequence of a…

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The "Dubbo Dispatch" and Coal Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1880 · page 3

THE following article is from the Dubbo Dispatch of May 21st:— Mr. William Forster, in a lecture which he recently delivered in…

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Correspondence Those Coal Miners Again. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1880 · page 3

SIR,—To give you and those coal miners of the Newcastle district an idea of what they are thought of in the inland country towns of New…

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Quality of Illawarra Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1880 · page 3

IT will be noticed (says the [?] Mercury of Friday) that a public meeting will be holden at the Council Chamber this evening, to express an…

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The Illawarra Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1880 · page 2

THE Illawarra Mercury of 28th inst., states:—The coal trade here continues brisk. The Bulli colliery more especially has been very busy latterly. The…

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Misrepresentation of the Miners As a Class

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1880 · page 2

IN another column we give a reprint of a sub-leader taken from the Dubbo Dispatch in which the writer gratuituously makes a sweeping class…

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Important Meeting of Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1880 · page 3

A special meeting of the Lambton miners was held in the Music Hall on Monday evening last. The room was crowded. THE Chairman said that the meeting…

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Marvellous Gold Saving Discovery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1880 · page 4

WE clip the following from a recent issue of the New York Herald:—"Edison has invented methods by which he can extract a greater amount of gold from the…

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A New Gold Saving Apparatus

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1880 · page 2

IN February last, we pointed out in the leading columns of this journal, the necessity that existed for a gold saving apparatus. At that time we…

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The Law and the Miners. "Vox populi vox Dei." (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1880 · page 3

SIR,—Will you allow me space in the columns of your widely circulated paper, to call the attention of the mining community to the necessity of retainidg the…

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Discovery of the Barrington Goldfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1880 · page 4

THE following is the report of the select committee of the Legislative Assembly, appointed on the 11th November, 1879, to inquire into and report upon…

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Public Sympathy towards the Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1880 · page 2

A LARGE and very enthusiastic public meeting was held at Hackworthy's Black. Diamond Hotel, Blane-street, last night, for the purpose of hearing from the miners…

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The Mining Situation. Interviews to Effect a Settlement

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1880 · page 2

MUCH interest, in public circles generally, was evinced at Newcastle, yesterday, in consequence of the efforts which it was understood were in course of progress…

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