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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1887

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Miners' Meetings

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 June 1887 · page 5

The usual monthly meeting of the miners took place last evening. Mr. Jas. Thompson occupied the chair. The minutes were read and confirmed…

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A Colliery Check-weighman and Non-union Men

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 June 1887 · page 8

AT the Durham (England) County Court," two miners named Andrew Halphin and Thomas Hunter were sued by Joseph Hogg, one of the…

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Queensland Gold-mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1887 · page 5

The prospectus of the Mount Shamrock Gold-mining Company, Queensland, with a capital of £280,000 has been issued…

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The Northumberland (England) Coal Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1887 · page 3

THE strike in the Northumberland coal trade, which has now lasted fourteen teen weeks, seems as far off a settlement as ever. A conference of delegates…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Tuesday. Queensland Gold Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1887 · page 5

One pound shares in the now Shamrock Gold Mining in Company, Queensland, are quoted at 7s premium…

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Violation of Colliery Rules

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1887 · page 5

AT the Wollongong Police Court before Mr. Turner, P.M., and Messrs. Parsons, Richards, and O'Donnel, Js.P., John M'Leish, miner, was…

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English Collieries Act Amendment Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1887 · page 11

AN exhaustive report by a Royal Commission appointed some time ago in England has been issued, and, on the lines of that report an amendment is about being made in the…

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Mount Morgan Gold-mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1887 · page 6

THE balance-sheet of the fount Morgan Gold-mining Company for the half-year ended 31st May has been published, and will be read at the…

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Correspondence Colliery Inspection. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1887 · page 3

"Long experience made him sage."—GAY. Sir,—Now that the Bulli disaster has been the means of arousing the coalminers through the Australian…

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The Shams of Mine Inspection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1887 · page 3

Mr. Abraham, M.P., incidentally alluded to the above subject, and made the following remarks:—I am sorry to have again to call attention…

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Coal Mining in England and Wales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 June 1887 · page 6

A HOME paper says:—The offer of the miners of Northumberland to refer the dispute to arbitration has been refused by the masters. A…

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Curiosities of Coal and Wine Due Petitions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 June 1887 · page 7

IN the course of the evidence given on this subject before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the 9th May, Mr. R. T. Wragg, solicitor,…

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The Scottish Australian Mining, Limited

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 June 1887 · page 6

THE ordinary half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this undertaking was hold on May 6, at the City Terminus Hotel, under the presidency…

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Queensland Opal Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1887 · page 5

A company has been formed, with a capital of £100,000, to work the opal mines in Queensland. Half the amount of the capital is to be raised…

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Burwood. Miners' Check Inspectors' Report. Burwood Colliery, June 3, 1887

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 June 1887 · page 6

Main Intake, North Side of Pit.— Anemometer registered 33,480 cubic feet per minute; thermometer registered 66 deg…

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Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 June 1887 · page 6

The quarterly meeting of the A.A. Company miners was held on Saturday evening last. The chair was occupied by Mr. J. Thompson…

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District News. Plattsburg. Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 June 1887 · page 6

THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute on Saturday evening, Mr. James Brady in the…

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Gold Ores

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1887 · page 5

Professor Cosmo Newbery and Mr. Vautin's process of extracting gold from ores by chlorination has boon patented, and a company to work the…

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Mining Venture

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1887 · page 5

Mr. Edward Langton, of Melbourne, has contracted, on behalf of Mr. Joseph Clarke, to sell a goldmining claim on his Island Block Estate,…

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District News. Wallsend. Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1887 · page 6

THE usual monthly meeting, of the above took place on Friday evening last in Harris' Hall; Mr. Chas. Johnston in the chair…

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