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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1883

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Vehicular Traffic in the Mining Townships

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1883 · page 2

IT may not yet be generally known throughout the district that the vehicular traffic hitherto existing between Newcastle and the townships of…

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Miners' Delegate Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1883 · page 8

MINUTES of a quarterly Delegate Meeting held at Lambton on Thursday, January 4th, 1883. Lodges represented: Borehole, Wallsend,…

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Original Correspondence. Christmas Holidays and the Miners. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1883 · page 5

SIR,—The representatives of the Miners' Association desire me to call your attention to certain allegations made in your issues of December 22nd and 28th, respecting the…

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Picnic to Co-operative Colliery Employees

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 January 1883 · page 3

ON Saturday last, the proprietary of the Co-operative Colliery gave the whole of their employees' wires and families a picnic in the racecourse paddock,…

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Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 January 1883 · page 2

THE above Miners held their quarterly meeting in Stoker's Hall, on Monday evening There was a large attendance. Mr. W. Kerr in the chair. The minutes of last…

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Colorado School of Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 January 1883 · page 1

THE following article on the status of the State School of Mines, Golden, is from the San Juan Prospector:— As the mining camps are now…

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The Yield of Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 January 1883 · page 3

A MATLANDR, who takes an interest in the progress of gold mining in Victoria, in Queensland, and in this colony, has handed is (Mercury) a Victorian journal, from…

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Original Correspondence. to Colliery Proprietors and Others Interested in the Coal Trade of Newcastle. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 January 1883 · page 3

SIR,—In case the above might be led astray as to the cause of the unsatisfactory way in which coal is at the present time being shipped, we—members of the…

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Wallsend Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1883 · page 8

THE monthly meeting of the above was held in Mr. Harris's hall on Monday evening last; Mr. J. Baird in the chair. The minutes of meetings held…

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Borehole Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1883 · page 2

THE regular monthly meeting of the above miners was held in Williams' Hall, on Saturday evening last; Mr. Samuel Donn in the chair. The minutes of the…

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The Glebe Colliery Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1883 · page 2

WE understand, on inquiry, from the Miners' General Secretary (Mr. Curley) that with respect to the Glebe miners' dispute, that the principal collieries in the…

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The Coal and Iron Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1883 · page 2

WE gather from the English papers by the late mails, the fact that the iron trade of the North of England has never been so uniformly good as…

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Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1883 · page 3

THE above miners met in Stoker's Hall on Wednesday evening; Mr. W. Kerr in the chair. The minutes of previous meeting were read and confirmed…

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The Colliery Disaster in Warwickshire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1883 · page 4

The covering placed over the mouth of the Baxterley coalpit after the explosion of May last, when over thirty persons met their death,…

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Mining News

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 4

Gympie mining items report that rich gold has been struck in the Golden Crown, and that good specimens have been obtained in sinking the Aureila, which…

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Wages in the Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 3

THE Clay Cross Colliery Company, Derbyshire, on Saturday offered their miners 11 per cent. advance, which will be accepted…

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Election of Colliery Doctor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1883 · page 2

A LARGELY-ATTENDED meeting of the miners and other employes of the Lambton Colliery was held in the Music Hall, on Thursday evening, Mr. W. Kerr in the…

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The Tararua Gold Robbery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1883 · page 3

IN explanation of the telegram (which appeared in Saturday's issue) relating to the discovery of an ingot of gold among the personal effects of the man…

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Mining News

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1883 · page 3

Mining is quite as prosperous as ever, and there are a large number of hands employed at Girilambone, on the Bogan, but still enquiries are made for more miners, smelters,…

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Ferndale Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1883 · page 2

THE monthly meeting of the Ferndale miners was held in Robinson's Room on Monday evening last, Mr. J. Bowditch in the chair. Minutes of all previous meetings…

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