The Prospects of the Coal Trade for 1881
BEING on the threshold of a new year, a fitting opportunity offers to review the history of the coal trade during the past eight years, with all its…
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Mining & the mines, 1881
304 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 16
Mining Adventure at Temora
THE Temora Herald records the following incident:—On Sunday morning the whole township was thrown into a state of intense excitement by the news that some men had…
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ON New Year's Day last, whilst purchasing some fruit from a stall at the Newcastle Railway Station, and whilst being served, the fair vendor gave vent to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Correspondence the Coal Trade. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—The calamity which you have predicted in your prophetic leaders for the past two years, when dealing with the coal question, has, in spite of your…
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A MEETING of the miners employed at the Newcastle C.M. Co.'s Colliery was held in the Protestant Hall on Monday evening last, Mr. C. Jones in the chair. The…
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MINUTES of a Quarterly Delegate meeting held at Lambton, on Thursday, January 6th, 1881. Lodges represented: Borehole, Wallsend, Lambton, Co-operative, New…
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BRAIDWOOD, Wednesday.—The monthly gold escort left to-day in care of Inspector Keegan. The amount of the Bank of Now South Wales was 51oz., 11dwt. 8gr., the…
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THE export of coal from the Port of Newcastle, is shown by the following copy of the official returns, supplied us by the several collieries. No returns have been…
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THE Tomora Herald, of the 5th instant observes with regard to the gold interest there:—"Making reasonable allowance for the holidays, the news from our mines…
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A FATAL accident occurred early on Tuesday morning at the Prince of Wales Company's mine, Mia Mia, near Muckleford (the M. A. Mail reports),…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence the Coal Trade. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—I enclose a clipping from the Sydney Echo of the 7th inst., being a few remarks from the editor of that journal bearing upon the present position of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Lambton Miners and 4s. 6D. Per Ton. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—At the Delegate meeting held on Thursday last a motion was passed recommending us miners in the district to demand 4s 6d per ton as a howing rate…
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I BEG to offer you a proposition upon the important matter of Capital and Labour, the co-operation of which is the life of the district; and since it is…
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In our issue of yesterday, at the request of Mr. J. JACKSON, Shipping Manager of the Lambton Company, we published from the Echo of Friday…
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WE would refer our readers to another column, in which will be found the Colonial Treasurer's reply yesterday to Mr. James Fletcher, M.L.A., relative to the…
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THE price of coal is lower now (says the Melbourne Argus) that it has ever been before in this city. Coal is now advertised for sale at prices ranging from 22s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence the Coal Trade. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—"Them's just my sentiments." Such was the mighty exclamation of one, who, when tired of saying his prayers, wrote them on paper, pinned them to his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence the Lambton Miners and "Wallsend Miner." (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR.—I wish, with your permission, to contradict a few statements made by "A Minor," Wallsend, in your issue of the 11th inst. He states the last little…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Correspondence the Echo, the Miners, and the Newcastle Coal Trade. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—In your issue of Tuesday appears a clipping from the Sydney Echo, purporting to be editorial remarks on the Newcastle coal trade. The…
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SPEAKING at a banquet recently, Mr. Alex. Stuart, M.L.A., spoke on the above subject thus (as reported in the Illawarra Mercury):—…
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