Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Mining & the mines, all years

Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1880

573 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 29

The Miners' Strike

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

At a deputation received by Mr. Curley, the Newcastle Ironmoulders have granted £50 towards the Miners' Strike Fund. The Operative Stonemasons have also…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Miners and the Strike. Important Public Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 June 1880 · page 3

A DENSELY crowded meeting called by advertisement, by the members of the hole Miners' Committee, was held in the large room of the Black Diamond Hotel,…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Miners' Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 June 1880 · page 4

YESTERDAY, the representatives of the various lodges met Mr. G. A. Lloyd at the Great Northern Hotel, to consider the best steps to be taken in the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The Seamen and the Miners. Public Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 June 1880 · page 5

ACCORDING to advertisement, a public meeting of seamen, lumpers, and others, was held at the Black Diamond Hotel, last evening, with the object of evincing…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Rumoured Discovery of Gold in Fiji

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 June 1880 · page 8

THE Ly-ee-Moon left Levuka on May 26th with a very full cargo, and leaves plenty behind, so the prospects of Fiji are looking up. For the moment,…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Miners' Meetings Borehole Lodge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 June 1880 · page 2

THE above miners met as usual on Saturday morning, at Mr. J. Williams' Miners' Exchange. There was a large attendance, and great interest and attention…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Colliery Subscriptions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1880 · page 2

A company of miners were once conversing, in an inn at Newfield, about the plan of deducting a willing from each man's pay on behalf of…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Probable Settlement of the Strike Wallsend, Browns, and Co-operative Colliery Proprietors Favorable to the New Sliding Scale. the A. A. Company Withdrawn From the Association. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1880 · page 2

THE Wallsend, Browns, and Co-operative Colliery proprietors are prepared to settle with the men on the sliding scale arranged with Mr. Geo. A. Lloyd…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Coal-mining Crisis. the Sliding Scale Rejected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1880 · page 2

BY the courtesy of the secretaries of the various lodges, we are enabled to place in possession of our readers the result of the balloting yesterday, with respect to the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

LOCAL & GENERAL. Miners' Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1880 · page 2

THE Newcastle Weekly Chronicle of April 17, says that about two hundred miners at the Hanley Bucknall Colliery, Staffordshire, are on strike against the proposed…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The New Gold Fields near Wagga Wagga

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1880 · page 2

Fresh ground has been opened at the Temora gold diggings, near Wagga Wagga, and has given new impetus to the rush. Numbers of people are going…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Result of the Miners' Ballot Upon the New Sliding Scale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1880 · page 2

As will be seen by the returns published in another column, the miners have, by a majority of 320, rejected the 3s. 3d. minimum hewing rate in the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The A. A. Company and its Miners. a Return to Work Solicited

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1880 · page 2

Some excitement was brought about at the usual meeting of the Borehole miners yesterday morning, by the arrival of a messenger from Mr. Jesse Gregson,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Dubbo Dispatch and the Miners. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1880 · page 3

SIR,—I crave a small space in your valuable journal, as a subscriber of the same, to reply to the Editor of the Dubbo Dispatch. He made it appear…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Result of the Mining Mediatorial Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 June 1880 · page 2

BY reference to another column it will be seen that Mr. G. A. LLOYD and the delegates, recommend to the masters and men that the latter should…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 June 1880 · page 3

THE usual quarterly meeting of the miners employed at the Newcastle C. M. Company's Colliery, was held in the Protestant Hall, on Monday…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Miners' Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 June 1880 · page 2

Mr. G. A. Lloyd's attempted adjustment of the mining difficulties is greatly praised, but the latest news has put a damper on it. The strikers need not…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Mining Crisis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 June 1880 · page 2

As will be seen in our column of district news, the Wallsend and Co-operative miners have unitedly decided not to accept the temporary scale offered them…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Meeting of Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 June 1880 · page 5

A special meeting of the miners employed at the Newcastle C. M. Co.'s colliery was held in the Protestant Hall, on Thursday evening last; Mr. Wm…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Cleveland Miners and the Sliding Scale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 June 1880 · page 8

THE Newcastle Weekly Chronicle of April 17 says:—On Wednesday, a mass meeting of the Cleveland miners was held on the sands, at…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →