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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1880

573 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 29

Reduction in the Selling and Hewing Prices of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 4

By an advertisement in another column from the Associated Colleries, it will be seen that that body have resolved to reduce the selling price of coal; on…

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The Proposed Reduction in the Selling Price of Coal and in Miners' Wages at Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1880 · page 2

IN our issue of the 20th instant an advertisement appears signed by Mr. BINNEY (Secretary to the Northern Coal Sales Association), stating that…

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Gold Mining Leases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1880 · page 2

THE Government Gazette of the 19th inst. contains, amongst others, a list of applications for gold mining leases approved of, in the Hunter districts…

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Plattsburg. Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1880 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was held on Tuesday evening for the purpose of hearing the minutes of the late conference read; Mr. W. Hogg in the…

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District News. Wallsend. Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1880 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was held on Tuesday for the consideration of the minutes passed at the conference on Saturday last. Mr. J. Gibson…

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Victorian Mining Statistics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1880 · page 2

WE are in receipt (from the Honorable Secretary for Mines) of the reports of Victorian Mining Surveyors and Registrars, for the quarter ended 31st December,…

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Ferndale Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1880 · page 5

THE following returns of coal, shipped from the above colliery, reached us after compilation of statement—To Adelaide, 433 tons; Launceston, 370; Richmond…

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Mining Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1880 · page 5

IN reference to the coming conference between the Associated Colliery Masters and the Officers and Delegates of the Coal Miners' Association, the Miners' General…

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The Proposed Reduction in the Selling Price of Coal and in Miners' Wages at Newcastle. No. II

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1880 · page 4

As the time approaches to put in force the proposed reduction in the selling price of coal, speculation becomes rife as to what action the miners and the…

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The Lambton Colliery's Medical Man. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1880 · page 8

SIR,—As your Lambton correspondent has inserted in your paper of March 20th a paragraph on the Lambton Colliery doctor question, I think the public ought to know…

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Borehole Miners' Monthly Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1880 · page 3

THE monthly meeting of the Borehole miners was held at Mr. Williams' Assembly Rooms, Hamilton, on Saturday night, Mr. John Sommerville in the chair…

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Appointment of Dr. A. E. Oscar Walker to the Greta and Anvil Creek Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1880 · page 2

THE sudden and unexpected appointment of Dr. Walker to the above, and his hurried departure from amongst us, has no doubt caused much surprise and…

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Prosecutions Under the Mines Regulation Act. CADMAN V. JORDAN

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1880 · page 4

THIS was an information preferred before the magistrates at Tredegar (Mon). on the 4th inst., by Mr. Cadman, Her Majesty's Inspector of Mines for the…

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Sydney Gold Cup. Tuesday, Recd. 7 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 March 1880 · page 2

The following are still left in the Cup; to be run for to-morrow: Sweetmeat, Martindale, Suwarrow, Columbus, Secundus, Dean, Petrea, Strathearn, Falmouth,…

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Dreadful Colliery Explosion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 April 1880 · page 4

AN explosion of gas occurred on the 21st January, at the Lady, Fair Pit of the Leycott colliery belonging to the Crewe Coal and Iron Company, near…

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Proposed Reduction in the Selling Price of Coal, and Miners Wages. No. III

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1880 · page 4

THE conference, to be held between the Associated Proprietors and the Miners' Delegates, on Saturday next, the 10th inst., will, perhaps, be one of the…

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Superiority of Swamp Coal for Generating Steam. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1880 · page 8

SIR,—I understand there has been a little "chaff" in the vicinity of the coal offices to-day. The matter arose, I believe, as follows. The steamer…

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Borehole Miners' Special Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1880 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the Borehole Miners was held at Williams' Assembly Rooms, Hamilton, yesterday at 10 a.m., for the purpose of receiving a report from the…

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Mining in the Kempsey District. Central Kempsey

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1880 · page 2

This place bids fair shortly to become the centre of a very important mining district. Antimony is being worked successfully twenty miles to the north-west,…

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Superiority of Swamp Coal for Generating Steam. (To the Editor of the Newcastle Herald.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 April 1880 · page 4

SIR,—Allow me to say a few words in reference to remarks made by Mr. I. Martin, in Saturday's issue, about swamp coal, or coal which has been…

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