TELEGRAMS. Lambton Colliery Doctor
LAMBTON, Friday.—At the meeting of Lambton miners to-night, re taking a ballot for and against appointing Dr. Leacock as colliery doctor, no decision was…
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Mining & the mines, 1884
299 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 15
The Coal Discovery at Heathcote
SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Charles Harper, mining manager of the Cumberland Cast Iron Mining Company, came to Sydney this morning, bringing with him a sample of…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The report of Mr. C 8. Wilkinson, the geological surveyor, upon the coal measures in the Greta and Branxton districts, has been received by the…
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SYDNEY, Saturday, 8 p.m.—The directors, Government Geologist, and Press representatives returned from Heathcote this evening, where they have been…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Boring at the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company's selection, at Hoa hoote, Camp Creek, was continued after the directors and party had left…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The mining manager has returned to Sydney from the Cumberland Coal Company's bore at Heathcote, and reports having passed…
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THE following is a description by the reporter of the "S. D. Telegraph," of the boring operations at the Cumberland Coal and Icon Mining Co.'s selection at Heathcote:—The result of…
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A SPECIAL meeting was held by the Wallsend miners on Friday evening; Mr. J. Baird in the chair. The object of the meeting was to consider the report of the committee…
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THE news of the successful striking of a most valuable, and what promises to be a permanent and extensive, bed of coal at Heathcote, has given very general…
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A VERY large meeting of the above miners took place in Williams' large hall, Hamilton, last evening. Mr. David Reid occupied the chair, and the meeting was about…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The borings from the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company's late discovery at Heathcote, the 12ft seam of coal, are on exhibition at the Exchange,…
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HAVING brought this subject to that point at which the rapid modern development of the coal trade may be said to have commenced, and concerning which the literature…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Stone, yielding 15 ozs. of gold to the ton, has been discovered near Gladstone…
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WALLSEND, Friday.—The following telegram has been received by Mr. James Curley, Miners' Secretary:—"Miners on strike Westport Colliery; advertise paper;…
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A MEETING of the Wallsend miners was held on Friday evening, Mr. J. Baird in the chair. The secretary read the minutes of the last meeting,…
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BUDA PESTH, Sunday.—A terrible colliery explosion is reported as having occurred at Steyrddorp, a manufacturing town in North Hungary. Seventy…
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A meeting of the Co-operative miners was held on Friday evening, Mr. Houston in the chair. The secretary, Mr. Moss, rued the minutes of previous…
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THE decision of the Equity Judge in the case SNEDDON versus the Wallsend and Plattsburgh Municipalities can neither be satisfactory to the litigants themselves,…
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A MEETING of the Globe miners was held last Monday evening; Mr. W. Davis in the chair. Mr. Buxton, secretary, read the minutes of the previous meeting, which were confirmed. The…
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WE learn, from reliable authority, that the fire at the Greta pit, alarming as it was, has been thoroughly subdued, and that work will be resumed in a day or two…
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