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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1880

573 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 29

Miners' Meetings

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 April 1880 · page 3

Reports of Borehole, Wallsend, and Co-operative miners' meetings, held on Saturday, will be found on the fourth page of this day's issue…

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Miners' Aggregate Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 April 1880 · page 3

ONE of the results of the delegate meeting on Saturday, is that an aggregate meeting of miners is convened for this morning, at 10 o'clock, at the Cemetery Hill, Wallsend…

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Miners' Meetings. Borehole

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 April 1880 · page 4

THE above miners' meeting was held on Saturday night, at Mr. J. Williams' Assembly Rooms, Hamilton. Mr. J. Duke in the chair. Minutes of previous…

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Wrratah Coal Co

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 April 1880 · page 3

THE Waratah Coal Company (says Saturday's Echo) propose to pay a dividend of 10s, to write off the book value of the mine £3327, leaving a balance to be…

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Miners' Aggregate Meeting. a Strike Decided Upon

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 2

A FURTHER important Aggregate meeting of the coal miners of the district was held yesterday at Wallsend, to resolve upon a final decision in respect to the recent…

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The Wallsend Miners' decide to bring out their Tools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 4

THE Wallsend Miners met in Harris' Hall, last evening, to consider whether or not they should take their tools out. After some discussion a motion was made…

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Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 April 1880 · page 2

A MEETING of the above miners was held yesterday afternoon on the green adjoining the Athletic Ground, Mr. A. Wild in the chair, when the following motions were unanimously…

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The Miners' Aggregate Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 April 1880 · page 2

IN consequence of a pressure of election advertisements, we have been compelled to hold over a leader on the above, in type, besides many other…

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Correspondence Selling Price of Coal. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 April 1880 · page 2

SIR,—I wish to correct an error of no small magnitude made by your reporter in reporting my remarks at Aggregate Meeting on Monday, which appears in to-day's issue…

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The Miners' Aggregate Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 April 1880 · page 2

THE four resolutions submitted at the Miners' Aggregate Meeting held at Wallsend on Monday last, and unanimously adopted, namely,—…

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The Price of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 April 1880 · page 3

WE are informed that on Tuesday 27th inst., an agreement was entered into by three of the Non-Associated mines to advance the price of their coal temporarily…

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Correspondence Work at Ferndale Colliery. (To Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 April 1880 · page 2

SIR,—I perceive in to-days issue of your paper an advertisement stating that firemen, topmen, wheelers, waterbailers, drivers, and screenmen are [?] took place in 1872, I…

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Miners' Meetings Borehole Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 April 1880 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was held in Williams' Assembly Rooms, Hamilton, yesterday (Thursday) morning, at 11 o'clock. There was a large…

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The Miners' Lock-out

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1880 · page 4

DOUBTLESS all classes of the community, affected by the unhappy dispute between the coal proprietors and their workmen, will be looking forward…

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Original Poetry. the Two Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1880 · page 2

"In the midst of life we are in death." Two miners went down through the dark coal pit, In the early morn as the sun arose;…

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Correspondence the Miners' Hewing Rate. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1880 · page 5

SIR,—Would you allow me a small space in your journal, to point out were you are wrong in your leader, of Thursday. You say that the masters should prove by…

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Strike at Singleton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 May 1880 · page 2

As an advertisement in another column states, the miners of the New Park Colliery (Rix's Creek), Singleton, are out on strike against a proposed reduction of 30…

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Miners' Aggregate Meeting

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

THE general meeting of miners, convened for Saturday last, took place at half-past 11 o'clock, on Griffith's Flat, Lambton. The day was remarkably fine, and there…

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Miners' Meetings Borehole Lodge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 May 1880 · page 2

A MEETING of the above was held on Saturday night, at Mr. J. Williams' Miners' Exchange, Hamilton, Mr. J. Duke in the chair…

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The Price of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1880 · page 2

RUMOURS were afloat yesterday as to the price coal was to be sold at by the non-associated collieries, in consequence of the associated miners being…

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