Miners' Annual Demonstration
THE Miners' Annual. Demonstration will take place on the Athletic Club's ground, Wallsend, to-day. Special train arrangements have been made, and the admission…
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Mining & the mines, 1884
299 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 15
Select Poetry. Better Than Gold
BETTER than grandeur, better than gold Than rank and titles a thousandfold, Is a healthy body and a mind at case, And simple pleasures that always please…
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The first annual demonstration of the coal miners, leagued under the Hunter River District Coal Miners' association, was held at Wallsend on Saturday, and was…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—Mr. Steele, warden at Hill End, telegraphs to the Minister of Mines as follows:-" I have examined 2cwt, of specimens obtained by Bond and…
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THE usual monthly meeting of the Wallsend miners was held in the Wallsend School of Arts on Friday evening last; Mr. J. Baird in the chair. After the minutes of previous…
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THOSE who take an interest in the prosperity of the coal trade must have been pleased at the speeches made by the miners' representatives at the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—300,000 sovereign have been landed from the R. M. S. Mirzapore…
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ARMIDALE, Wednesday.—A cake of refined gold weighing 170 onces from 254 tons of stone from the Elsanora mine, has been brought to Armidale…
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AFTER fifteen years the shareholders in the Bay of Islands Coal Company, New Zealand, have been forced to arrive at the conclusion that their…
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A VERY serious accident happened on Tuesday to a miner named John Tweed, working in the Rose of Denmark mine, Eaglehawk. Tweed was walking along…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Miners of the Newcastle District. Ballarat Courier, March 5th, 1884
AMONG the many prosperous industries of New South Wales none have so rapidly grown into importance as that of coal mining, the chief seat of which is Newcastle…
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NEW YORK, Saturday.—News has been received of a disastrous explosion at a mine at Pochantas, West Virginia, in which 150 miners were killed…
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THE following is the twenty-second report of Check Inspectors at A.A. Co.'s Collieries, Newcastle:— We started at the Hamilton pit, with…
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A disastrous colliery explosion occurred a few days ago at Penygraig, in the Rhondda Valley, resulting in the loss of 15 lives, a large number of horses also…
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IT certainly must have been an amusing night to have seen our not exactly turtlefed aldermen deciding upon the merits and demerits of the plants of the new…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A serious accident has occurred in the Golden Stream Stream Company's mine, Avoca, by an inburst of sand and water, which broke into…
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WE (Illawarra Mercury) learn that the largest coalmining concern yet formed in connection with Illawarra has just been floated in Sydney. The capital…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Twenty-two thousand ounces of gold have been received by the Queensland National Bank from the Gymp[?]e goldfields…
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MINUTES of a quarterly delegate meeting held at Newcastle on Thursday, April 2nd, 18.4 Lodges represented—Borohole, Wallsend,…
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In connection with the very rich discoveries of gold that have recently been made at Gympic, Queensland, and the great impetus which that field has in consequence received, we are informed that the…
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