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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1881

304 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 16

Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 January 1881 · page 3

The following is a detailed report of the meeting referred to in our issue of Saturday last:— A special meeting of the above miners…

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Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 January 1881 · page 2

LOAD after load of our jolly miners (says the Temora Herald) are returning with the heat of their travels and brimfull of health and good humour. Sydney and…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 January 1881 · page 3

SIR,—It is not easy to find anything new to say on this coal trade question. Your articles from time to time have been exhaustive, and your…

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Correspondence the Lambton Miners and "Miner." (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 January 1881 · page 3

SIR,—Permit me through the columns of your widely-circulated journal, to reply to the erroneous assertions made by one who signs himself. "Miner,"…

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The Lancashire Coal Miners' Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1881 · page 2

LONDON, January 17.—The coal miners' strike in Lancashire is extending to other districts, and a serious riot has taken place…

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Co-operative Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1881 · page 2

WE have received a letter signed "Fair Play," respecting the working of the above colliery. The writer has given a name, but as we know of no such…

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Exhibition Letters. The great Wool display—White wool and Yellow Gold—What might have been bought with £8000—Lost opportunities — Brinsmead's pianos—Their numerious improvements—Extraordinary honours — Singing Pianos

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1881 · page 3

THE exhibition on Carlton heights, has this week broken out in a sudden eruption of wool. Wool, wool, everywhere In the main avenue, the…

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Mr. Alex. Stuart on the Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 January 1881 · page 2

AT a banquet recently given in the Illawarra district, in responding to "the Coal Trade," Mr. STUART referred very pointedly to the ruinous…

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Glebe Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 January 1881 · page 4

THE Usual monthly meeting of the, above miners was held in the Protestant Hall, on Monday evening last Mr. Thomas McCree in the chair. The minutes of last…

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Milburn Creek Copper Mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 January 1881 · page 3

THE following particulars respecting the above item (withdrawn from the Estimates on Wednesday night) are taken from the Sydney Echo:—A…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 January 1881 · page 3

SIR,—I see in your issue of to-day a long rumbling letter signed "j. McW.", purporting to be a reply to a letter which appeared in your valuable…

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Competition in the Coal Trade. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 January 1881 · page 3

SIR,—The battle of competition so long dreaded by some, and prayed for by others, has now commenced in real earnest. Cheap coal is the cry…

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Coal at Berrima

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 January 1881 · page 2

ON Thursday morning, a deputation, consisting of Mr. Meyers, M.L.A., Mr. W. Davis, and Mr. Wilshire, waited upon the Hon. Minister for Works, to lay…

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Newcastle Coal Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1881 · page 2

THE half-yearly ordinary general meeting of this company is announced to take place to-day at noon, in the office of the company, Scott-street, when the report…

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Newcastle Coal Mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 January 1881 · page 3

THE usual half yearly meeting of the above company was held at the head offices, Scott-street, yesterday, the Chairman of the Board of Directors (Mr. F…

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The Coal Boom

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 January 1881 · page 4

THE San Francisco Journal of Commerce, Nov. 25, says:—The Late advance in coal took almost everybody by surprise. Few or none, expected…

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Correspondence Co-operative Colliery. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 January 1881 · page 3

SIR,—There is a ballad which I have heard often sung, the chorus of which I give, "Bear goodwill to all men, 'tis easy if you try, and always do to others as…

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Work at the Coal Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 January 1881 · page 4

Philadelphia, Dec. 2, 1880.—The plan of operations at the anthractie coal mines for the present month has not yet been determined, and it is…

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Crushed in a Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 January 1881 · page 4

Carbondale, Pa., Dec. 7, 1880.—William Dunston, employed in the Coalbrook mines for the last twelve years as a miner, was dangerously, if…

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Mining Intelligence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 January 1881 · page 5

THE Stannum Miner says:—A tin discovery, which bids fair to prove of considerable importance, has been made immediately across the Border,…

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