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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1881

304 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 16

Railway Rates on Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 February 1881 · page 2

MR. S. C. BROWN introduced a deputation to the Minister for Works on Friday consisting of several proprietors of brickmaking establishment at…

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Visit of the Minister for Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 February 1881 · page 2

THE Hon. Ezekial Baker, Minister for Mines, will pay a visit of inspection to the Newcastle district to-day. Accompanied by Mr. Mackenzie,…

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Important to Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1881 · page 2

MR. WARDEN SHARPE, in giving his decision in a case of disputed possession on Thursday last said—"I cannot too strongly impress upon miners that if there…

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The National Miners' Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1881 · page 2

THE attention of the, Mother Country and of other parts of the world has lately been drawn to the constrained relationships existing in many parts of…

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Visit of the Minister for Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1881 · page 2

IN our yesterday's issue we alluded to the visit of the Hon. E. A Baker, Minister for Mines, to this district. Yesterday morning, accompanied by Mr. Mackenzie, Examiner…

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The Lucknow Goldfields

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1881 · page 2

WE (Western independent) have been favoured with most valuable information respecting the almost unparalleled richness of the vein of gold being worked in…

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The Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1881 · page 3

THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held in the Protestant Hall on Monday evening last; Mr. C. Jones in the chair…

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Latest News from the Gold-fields TEMORA

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 March 1881 · page 2

Wednesday.—The escort leaves to-morrow morning. Several stockbrokers are here trying to get properties to float…

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The Illawarra Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 March 1881 · page 2

MOUNT KEIRA and Coal-Cliff worked pretty steadily last week, but very little was done at Mount Pleasant or Bulli during the same time. Notice has been given that a…

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Mining Intelligence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 March 1881 · page 4

THE North Glanmire, Gympie, has crushed 400 tons of stone for a yield of 967 ounces of gold. A 100oz patch was struck in the same claim after the…

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The Burrum (Queensland) Coal Field

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 March 1881 · page 2

THE Maryborough correspondent of the Brisbane Telegraph writing on February 22, says:—"There has lately been some correspondence in the local papers on the…

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Coal Riots in Nebraska

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1881 · page 4

OMAHA, Dec. 9, 1880.—The present severe cold weather, continuing since early in November, with the thermometer ranging from twenty degrees…

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TELEGRAMS. Latest News from Mount Browne Goldfields

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1881 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—The latest news from Mount Browne is re-assuring. Of 500 of population, only about 20 are getting gold. The wash-dirt from the…

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[From the Sydney Papers.] Valuable Gold Discovery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1881 · page 2

TEMORA, Tuesday.—An important and evidently valuable discovery was made this morning in Barnett and Coyles' claim, at the head of the old surface workings of…

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Latest News from the Gold-fields

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 4

TEMORA, Thursday.—Cycle and Barnet state that they are getting rich specimens in the cement. Several shares in rich claims changed…

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The Lancashire Miners' Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 5

A LARGE gang of miners from Wigan district visited the Earl of Lathom's collieries at Skelmersdale on January 20, and induced the men employed there to leave…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1881 · page 3

THE following letter appears in the Colonial Register (published in London) [?] January 15th-addresseed to the editor: ("Sir—I observe that in your last…

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The Miners' Strike in Lancashire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1881 · page 4

ON Tuesday afternoon a riot took place at the pits of the Wharton Hall Coal Company, Little Halton, five miles from Bolton. A meeting of 4,000…

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[From the Sydney Papers.] Temora Gold field

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 March 1881 · page 2

TEMORA, Monday.—Magnificent specimens were shown to-day from Possum Power reef, near Woodstown; gold thickly studding the quartz…

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A Newspaper of Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 March 1881 · page 2

AN American contemporary, the San Francisco Call, may justly be considered a "valuable medium" by its readers. For months past its…

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