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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1880

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A Gold-saving Apparatus Wanted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1880 · page 2

LOOKING at the many features of individual colonial enterprise pitched upon by successive Ministries as fair marks for fiscal endowment, it will be…

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The Small Coal Question. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 February 1880 · page 4

SIR,—I closed my last communication by remarking that this subject was deserving of further attention; but, before making further observations in this direction, let…

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The Small Coal Question, and Associated Proprietors

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1880 · page 4

OUR readers will observe, by the minutes of the special delegate meeting held on Thursday last, and published in our yesterday's issue, that the…

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The Coal Trade. To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1880 · page 8

SIR,—Is the coal trade declining on account of its present price at Newcastle; or is it merely the fluctuating of an intermittent foreign trade, in…

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The Lucknow Goldfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1880 · page 5

THE Evening News reporter, writing from Lucknow on Wednesday, says:—"I visited the gold workings at Lucknow to-day, and found only a few men employed…

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Gold-mining at Parkes. PARKES

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1880 · page 2

£4,000 were offered by a gold speculator for Jones, Leighton, and party's claim at Curragong and refused; they are raising first-class stone. No. 1 East are also…

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The Greymouth Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1880 · page 2

THE Dunedin Evening Star of February 3rd, says that a company is to be formed with a capital of £15,000, in shares of that number, to work the…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1880 · page 2

The usual monthly meeting of the above miners, was held in Harris' Assembly Rooms, on Friday evening last; Mr. R. Walker in the chair. The…

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The Small Coal Question

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1880 · page 2

IN our leader on the small coal question, in Saturday's issue, two typographical errors occurred, which are calculated to leave a false impression. The first is in…

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Coal Exploration. BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1880 · page 2

The Diamond Drill Committee, who are searching for coal at Cooktown, report that operations have been delayed through the wet weather during the last month…

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The Barrington Gold Field. Copeland North

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1880 · page 2

Nicholas Craddick who has gone to the rush at Tucker's Creek, has been successful in finding gold. The excitement has greatly abated. About six claims have…

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Splendid Yield of Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1880 · page 2

Thirty-four tons from No. 2 South Lady Mary, Gympie, yielded 700 ozs. gold…

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The Coal Trade at Home

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1880 · page 2

THE Newcastle Weekly Chronicle of December 27, states that at the meeting of coalowners held on the previous Saturday, a lengthy discussion took place with…

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The Coal, Iron, and Steel Trades During 1879

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1880 · page 2

THE arrival of our files by the late mails has placed us in possession of some important and interesting information, which we hasten to lay before our…

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Fatal Colliery Explosion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1880 · page 4

ON Wednesday evening, a serious explosion occurred at the Trencherbone Pit of the Plodden line, belonging to Messrs. Scoweroft and Sons, Kearsley,…

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Hamilton. Borehole Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1880 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting was held at Mr. J. Williams' Assembly Room on Tuesday last, Mr. J. Somerville in the chair. The chairman said the meeting had been…

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Newcastle Coal Company v. J. and A. Brown

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 February 1880 · page 2

The case of the Newcastle Coal Company v. J. and A. Brown, commenced this afternoon before Judge Manning, and is likely to occupy the Court the whole of…

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[From Our Correspondents.] The Newcastle Coal Co Breach of Contract Case. SYDNEY, Thursday, 5.45 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 February 1880 · page 2

The action for breach of contract, in not supplying fifty coal waggons at £75 each, commenced this afternoon before Sir William Manning and a jury of four,…

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The Coal Trade. No. III

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 4

IN our two last articles on this subject, we endeavoured to show why a falling-off in the export of coal from the port of Newcastle had taken place last…

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Newcastle Coal Company v. J. & A. Brown

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 5

In the Supreme Court, to-day, the defendants in this case consented to a verdict of £850, and costs between attorney and client…

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