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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1883

269 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 14

Railway Rates for Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 June 1883 · page 3

A DEPUTATION introduced by Mr. F. J. Gibbs, M.L.A., Messrs. W. Martin and A. Harber, waited upon the Minister for Works on Friday, to ask that no increase…

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Dreadful Mining Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 June 1883 · page 3

A TELEGRAPH to the Echo informs us that a shocking accident happened in the Unicorn mine, Eaglehawk, near Sandhurst, on Tuesday evening. The signal was given to haul the cage to the surface, when the…

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Mining Intelligence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 June 1883 · page 4

THE Silver Valley Mining Co., at Herberton, are getting out almost pure silver. It will go about 2000 ounces to the ton. THE CHANCES OF MINING.—A BIG NUGET.—…

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Wallsend Miners

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

A MEETING of the Wallsend miners [?] held on Friday evening; James Baird[?] the chair, who called upon the secret[?] (F. Craig) to read the minutes of previo[?]…

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Borehole Miners

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

THE quarterly meeting of the above was held in Williams' Assembly Rooms, on Saturday evening last, Mr. R. Baker in the chair.—The miners of meetings held during…

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The Export of Coal From the Port of Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 July 1883 · page 2

IN our yesterday's issue we published a return of coal exported during the half-year ending June 30th, and also of the revenue collected at the Custom…

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Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 July 1883 · page 3

[?] Co-operative Company's miners' meeting was [?] on Saturday evening last, Mr. W. Hogg in the [?] The Chairman called upon the Secretary to [?] the minutes of last meeting which were…

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Colliery Matters at Illawarra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 7

THE output of the Mount Keira and Mount Pleasant collieries during the past month amounted in the aggregate to about 18,000 tons of coal, being the largest quantity yet sent out from those collieries…

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Tasmanian Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 3

THE following is a portion of the report of a Board appointed by the Tasmanian Government to inquire into the probable traffic on and receipts from the proposed…

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Miners' Delegate Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 8

MINUTES of a quarterly delegate meeting, held at Lambton, on Thursday, July 5th, 1883. Lodges represented: Borehole, Wallsend, Lambton, New Lambton, Back…

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Mining Intelligence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 4

LAST quarter's gold yield in Victoria 192,397oz. 105,065oz. went home. From the export returns of the Northern Territory, it is shown that for the four months ending April 30,…

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Victorian Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 July 1883 · page 3

A TRIAL of Lal Lal pat at compressed brown coal was made at Ballarat (says the Courier) on Saturday afternoon to us certain its capacity as a steam-making fuel suitable for locomotive engines on the Victorian…

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Help for the Miners' Widows and Orphans

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 July 1883 · page 2

IT has been a long-established custom among the miners of this district, when a fellow workman is killed in the pit, to lay that pit idle half a day to attend…

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The Miners Union and the Poor Printer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 July 1883 · page 3

THE Colonial Printers' Art Journal which in future will come out as The Industrial News, says:—It seems it toss-up whether of all the wurrikin men," miners or printers are the greatest sticklers for…

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Original Correspondence. Help for Miners' Widows and Orphans. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 July 1883 · page 4

Sir,—Your leader on the above subject, as published in one of last week's issue, cannot but have been read otherwise than with interest. And sooner or later the miners…

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Original Correspondence. the Miners' Union and the Poor Printer. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 July 1883 · page 2

SIR,—In your issue of Friday last appeared a comment on the above subject, taken from The Colonial Printers Art Journal; and judging this as a sample of the brain power productions of that once brilliant…

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TELEGRAMS. Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 July 1883 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—At the yearly meeting of the Vale of Clwydd Coal Company, a dividend of 20 per cent. per annum was declared, and it was resolved to increase…

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Newcastle Coal Mining Co., Limited

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 July 1883 · page 2

THE half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Newcastle Coal Mining Company (Limited), was held is the head office of the company, Scott-street, on Tuesday. Mr…

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Queensland Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 July 1883 · page 2

A TRUCKFULL of coal from the Queensland Coal Company's mine, Howard, was brought up yesterday for shipment to Brisbane (says the News of the 12th instant)…

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Miners for Wallaroo

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 July 1883 · page 2

A LATE English paper states that "a number of Cornish, and Welsh miners have just been dispatched per Glen Osmond and Oriana, having been engaged by Mr. R. Piper for the proprietors of the Wallaroo…

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