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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1885

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Termination of Miners' Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1885 · page 4

WESTPORT, N.Z., Friday.—The miners' strike is at an end, The men have started work pending a settlement of the question by arbitration…

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Termination of Westport Miners' Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1885 · page 4

WE are glad to be able to report that Mr. James Curley, the Miners' General Secretary, has received an official telegram from the secretary of the Westport Miners'…

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Are Miners One-eyed Men?

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 February 1885 · page 2

IN many a column of small type of almost unintelligible jargon delivered on the stump or elsewhere, the sons of Pluto, some of whose mental calibre is…

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Miners' Demonstration

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 February 1885 · page 2

At a committee meeting of the above, held yesterday, in reference to a communication from Mr. R. C. Luscombe, M.L.A., stating that the Government had declined to grant a public holiday on March 5th,…

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Gold Discovery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 February 1885 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—There has been a discovery of gold in an iron mine near Mount Hope…

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Two Miners Killed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 February 1885 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Two miners, Henry Heive and John Holborn, were buried alive by a fall of earth at the Pegleg Lead Mine, Eaglehawk, Victoria…

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Gold Excitement at Mount Hope

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 February 1885 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—There is great excitement in the neighbourhood of Mount Hope. anent the late gold discovery…

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Gold and Silver Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 March 1885 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Gold has been discovered at Pye's Creek, Fmmnaville, on Crane and party's silver lode. There is no alluvial gold fund at Mount…

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Public Holiday for the Miners' Demonstration

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 March 1885 · page 4

AT the request of the miners' delegates, application was made to the Acting-Colonial Secretary to proclaim a General Holiday for the City of…

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The Miners' Demonstration and a Public Holiday

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 March 1885 · page 5

THE following letter has been handed to us for publication:— "Colonial Secretary's Office, "Sydney, 28th February, 1885…

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Miners' Demonstration

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1885 · page 5

IN consequence of the Miners' Demonstration at Lambton lo-day this office will be closed from one until seven o'clock…

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The Miners' Demonstration

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1885 · page 4

ALL of our readers will know that the Hunter River Coal Miners' Association celebrate their annual demonstration in the Recreation Reserve, Lambton, to-day. If…

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Miners' Demonstration

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 March 1885 · page 2

YESTERDAY the members of the Hunter River Coal Miners' Association held their annual demonstration in the Lambton Recreation Reserve. The weather, which at…

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Wallsend Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 8

The following is the Check Inspectors' Report for March 3, 1885:—Engine bank intake, 34-780 cubic feet per minute. Lambton heading first split 15-480 cubic feet per…

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District News. Wallsend and Plattsburg. Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 7

A MEETING of the Wallsend miners was held on Wednesday evening, Mr. J. Baird in the chair. The Secretary (Mr. F. Craig) read…

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Correspondence. the Miners' Demonstration. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 8

SIR,—Mr. Melville, at the miners' demonstration yesterday, stated that the Government would have granted a holiday for the occasion had they understood…

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The Sydney Press and Mr. Dalley's Insult to the Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 March 1885 · page 3

THE Press of Sydney with the exception of the Morning Herald, take Mr. Dalley very severely to task for his recent wanton insult to the miners of…

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Fearful Colliery Explosion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 March 1885 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday.—At a colliery explosion in Austria 120 lives were lost…

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More Coal Discoveries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 March 1885 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Coal has been discovered in the locality of North Adelaide…

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The Minister for Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 March 1885 · page 3

WE understand that the Minister for Mines, who had contemplated an extensive tour through the back blocks of New South Wales, for which all arrangements had been…

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