The Patriotic Fund and Miners' Miseries
A VERY excellent idea has been suggested to us by an esteemed correspondent, that an opportunity has been afforded through the late unhappy disasters at Lithgow of…
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Mining & the mines, 1886
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CORRESPONDENCE. Lithgow Valley Colliery Disaster. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—It was with great sorrow on Tuesday morning I read the brief account of the second disaster at Lithgow Valley colliery, although not much…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Mines Regulation. House of Commons, March 3
MR. A. O'CONNOR rose to move the second reading of the Coal Mine8 Regulation Act (1872) Amendment Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Home Markets. Coal
THE persistence of the cold weather has had a good effect upon the markets for coal. The continued purchases on domestic account have greatly reduced…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Telegrams. New South Wales Sydney, Monday. The Kimberley Goldfields
The steamer Menmuir left on Saturday with a party of 36, well equipped with money and necessaries, for the new goldfields at Kimberley…
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Operations in the Lithgow mine are very rapidly progressing. All the stoppings in the main heading were bricked off last night at 9 o'clock. Every other…
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THE following expression of thanks from the directors to Mr. T. P. Moody, M.E. (who is well known in the Waratah district), his officers, and…
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The miners held a meeting on the Recreation Reserve yesterday afternoon. There was a large attendance, Mr. H. Agnew in the chair…
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At the half yearly meeting of the Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company, held to-day, the following report was submitted:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambton Colliery. Proposal to Import Miners. LONDON
The directors of the Scottish Australian Company are prepared to send miners to the Lambton Colliery, to fill the places of those on strike…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hidden Star Gold Mining Com, Limited, Temora
THE newly-appointed manager, Mr. Thomas Elsbury, reports, 19th April 1886:—I took charge of your mine to-day. On the surface are about 80 tons of stone, in which I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest District News. Plattsburg. Colliery Accident
AN accident occurred at the Cooperative Colliery last evening, whereby Thomas Britton sustained a very serious fracture of his leg below the knee. From what I…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Inquest at Wallsend. The Colliery Accident
THE adjourned inquest touching the death of William Walter Wills, a boy who was accidentally killed at the Wallsend Colliery on Wednesday, the 21st inst., was resumed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lymington-wallsend Coal Co
THE first half-yearly meeting of the Lymington-Wallsend Coal Company was held in Sydney on Wednesday. Mr. Thomas Cowlisbaw in the chair. The report stated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Brookstown Mine. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—I notice in your issue of Saturday last a report of a special delegate meeting of the miners to consider the position of the Brookstown miners, at which a motion was…
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THE usual monthly meeting of the Wallsend miners was held in Harris's Assembly Rooms on Friday evening. In the absence of the chairman, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident in the Duke Consols Mine. Two Miners Buried by a Fall of Earth
AT about 9 o'clock on Wednesday mornings an accident happened in the mine of the Duke Consoles No. 4 Tribute party, Timor, Victoria, by which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Sunday. The Lambton Mine
The Sunday Times says:—"We do not believe that the Scottish-Australian Mining Company, which owns the Lambton mine, will send out British miners to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria. Melbourne, Saturday. Gold in Western Australia
A letter has been received by the Hon James Munro from Winginah, West Australia. It states that great excitement exists in the newly discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kimberley Goldfields
MR. C. E. DEELEY, of the firm of Adcock Brothers and Co., merchants Palmerston and Derby, and stationed at the latter place, gives some…
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