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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1884

299 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 15

Correspondence the Glebe Colliery Dispute. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 October 1884 · page 3

SIR,—I see by your valuable paper of the 27th inst. a letter in reference to the Glebe colliery dispute, signed "A Glebe Miner," who state that he has had some years' experience in the Glebe colliery, and…

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Coal Miners Strike for Eight Hours

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 4

KIAMA, Friday.—100 men are on strike at the Bombo quarry, Kiama, for the eight hours system of labour…

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Accident at Katoomba Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Three loaded ships broke down on an incline at Katoomba colliery. They went down the valley 1300 feet, and smashed. No persons were…

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The Glebe Colliery Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 7

SAYS the Sydney .Daily Telegraph:—Trouble is brewing between the miners engaged in the Glebe Colliery, Newcastle, and their employers, and there…

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Correspondence the Glebe Colliery Dispute. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1884 · page 4

SIR,—As some of the orators, who ad- dressed the meeting of Glebe miners, held on Tuesday evening last, took the safe opportunity of slandering me behind my…

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The Glebe Colliery Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 November 1884 · page 3

OUR readers will be glad to learn that the threatened disruption between the Newcastle Coal Company and their workmen, has been happily averted, and a temporary…

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(From Our Own Correspondent.) The Hitton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 November 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At a meeting of the shareholders, held in the Exchange, to-day, Messrs. Hutchinson, Steele, Tighe, Elsden, and Fletcher were elected…

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Coal Timme[?] Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 November 1884 · page 3

The steamer[?]bra, chartered for an excursion trip 7 Raymond Terrace, left Newcastle at half-past 10, crowded with coal trimmer and their families, with their…

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TELEGRAMS. Mining News

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 November 1884 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Work has lately been started by W. J. Harris and party in the old "Lady Belmore" prospecting lease, which had been abandoned for some…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 November 1884 · page 3

A MEETING of the Wallsend miners was held on Friday evening, Mr. J. Baird in the chair. The Secretary, Mr. F. Craig, read the minutes of the last general meeting,…

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Medical Officer for Borehole Colliery. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 November 1884 · page 3

SIR,—On account of it having been reported that I have been using my influence on behalf of some of the candidates for the medical officer of the Borehole, I beg to contradict all such reports but for the…

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Mining News

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 November 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—Corcoran and party, of the Ph[?]nix Reef, Barmedman, have crushed thirty-six tons for 101oz. of smelted gold…

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Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 November 1884 · page 7

THE above miners held their monthly meeting in Stoker's Hall, on Wednesday evening last. There was a fair attendance; Sir. Thomas Smith in the chair. The minutes of last meeting were read and…

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Mining at Copeland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 November 1884 · page 4

COPELAND, Friday.—666oz, of gold have been obtained from seventy tons of stone from No. 1 East Mountain Maid claim, Copeland…

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Lambton Miners. Dispute Re the Jerry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 November 1884 · page 4

The adjourned meeting of the above was continued in Stoker's Hall on Thursday evening Mr. Thomas Smith in the chair. It was first decided that the ballot regarding Dr…

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District News. Wallsend and Platsburg. Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 November 1884 · page 7

The usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held in the Plattsburg Mechanics' Institute on Saturday, November 15; Mr. John Houston in the chair. The minutes…

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Discovery of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 November 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday —An important discovery of coal has been made in the Cumberland Coal and Iron Mining Co.'s mineral selection of 18,000 acres, at…

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The Ferndale Colliery Case. Harper and Another v. Brown and Others

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 November 1884 · page 3

IN the Supreme Court last Monday, his Honor the Primary Judge delivered judgment in the above suit, which had been heard in May last. The plaintiffs Harper and Bevan had been co-owners with Bingle…

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Photographing a Coal Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 November 1884 · page 4

The first attempt ever made to photograph the interior of a coal mine has been successfully carried out at Kochinoor Colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading Company, at…

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Coal Dust Bricks in France

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 November 1884 · page 4

The United States Commercial Agent at Nantes says that the coal dust, which was formerly rejected as worthless, is which was same in immense quantities in France in…

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