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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1887

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Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 October 1887 · page 8

IF you want good, strong pit boots, or cheap boots and shoes for your wives and children, do not fail to call at Joshua Smith's, opposite tram terminus, Hunter-st., Newcastle…

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Glebe. Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 October 1887 · page 3

The above miners held a special general meeting on Wednesday evening, in Simpson's Hall. The attendance was very small. Mr. John Lloyd was in the chair…

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Mining Companies

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 October 1887 · page 5

The New Zealand Antimony Mining Company has been floated privately, the mine having been taken over by a syndicate. The Amalgamated Blue…

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Sale of Mining Plant

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 October 1887 · page 4

IT will be seen from advertisement that Messrs. J. Creer and Son will sell at 11 o'clock to-morrow the whole of the mining plant at Dunkirk, New Lambton. The plant…

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The Coal Trade Between Australia and the East

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 October 1887 · page 8

THE following extracts from one of a series of articles by the Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, published in the S. M. Herald, should be of great interest…

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New Zealand Gold-mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 October 1887 · page 5

A gold-mine at Cromwell, Otago, has been sold to a syndicate…

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Fatal Colliery Explosion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 October 1887 · page 5

A FATAL colliery explosion occurred recently in Preston Grange Collieries, near Prestonpans, Midlothian. The miners have been on strike, and…

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The New Mining Bill. Important Deputation to the Minister for Mines. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 October 1887 · page 5

MR. FLETCHER introduced an important deputation of mineowners and managers to-day to the Minister for Mines, who received them in the…

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The New Mining Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 October 1887 · page 3

FULL particulars are given elsewhere by telegram of the important deputation of mine-owners and managers which waited in Sydney yesterday on Mr. Abigail, Minister for…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 October 1887 · page 3

The usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held in Mr. Harris's Assembly Rooms on Friday evening. In the absence of the chairman, Mr…

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Mining Companies

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 October 1887 · page 5

Messrs. Reid and Baird have sold to a syndicate the Monte Christo and Norton mines, near Cooktown (Q.), for £85,000, and have also registered…

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Duckenfield and Back Creek Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 October 1887 · page 3

MINUTES of special meeting of the Duckenfield and' Back Creek miners, hold on Oct. 10th, Mr. John Patrick in the chair:—…

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The New Mining Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 October 1887 · page 5

THE following is a copy of the alterations and additions proposed by the associated colliery-owners and managers' deputation which waited upon the Minister for Mines on Friday…

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Gold-mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 October 1887 · page 5

It is reported that the original Mount morgan Mining Company is to be floated in London with a capital of £5,000,000…

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Unearthing Hidden Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 October 1887 · page 6

A STRANGE discovery of a bag of gold has been made near Dublin. The Grand Canal Company have had men employed in cutting down trees along…

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District News. Wallsend. Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 October 1887 · page 2

THE adjourned .monthly meeting of Wallsend miners was held on Monday evening. Mr. Thomas Magee in the chair…

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Glebe and Burwood. Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 October 1887 · page 2

The above miners held their usual monthly meeting on Monday evening in Simpson's Hall. Mr. John Lloyd in the chair…

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A Romance of Gold-finding

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 October 1887 · page 3

THE following is an account of an 86oz. nugget of gold in a vineyard at Victoria:—"Mining Surveyor's Office, Stawell, October 15, 1887—Sir,—At…

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"Salting" of Gold Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 October 1887 · page 8

MAJOR BENSEKER writes as follows to an American paper:— "On one occasion I myself came near being victimised. I travelled to…

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Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 October 1887 · page 4

IF you want good, strong pit boots, or boots And shoes for your wives and children, do not fail to call at Joshua Smith's, opposite tram terminus, Hunter-st., Newcastle…

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