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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1887

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Gold Mining in Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 February 1887 · page 5

A company is being formed to work the North Cornish Gold Mine, Dayles-ford, Victoria. The capital is £1,50,000…

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The Bulli Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 February 1887 · page 6

THE Bulli correspondent of the S. M. Herald telegraphed on Saturday:—The Bulli Company's steamer Merksworth brought seven new pit hands from Sydney…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 February 1887 · page 3

THE usual monthly meeting of the above was held in Mr. Harris Hall on Friday evening last, Mr. Jas. Bawd in the chair…

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Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1887 · page 3

The above miners held their us[?] monthly meeting on Monday evening in Simpson's Hall. There was a very air' attendance of miners. Mr. W. B. Harrison…

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CORRESPONDENCE. Protection.—Will it be a Gain or Loss to the Coal Miner? (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1887 · page 3

SIR,—In the address of Sir Henry Parkes to the electors of St. Leonards, Sir Henry appeals to the miners to aid him in upholding his Freetrade ban…

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Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 February 1887 · page 7

THE monthly meeting of the above miners was held in Ralph's Druids' Hall on Wednesday evening, Mr. H. Hanlon in the chair…

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Illawarra Miners' Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 February 1887 · page 8

THE Daily Telegraph's Wollongong correspondent wires on Wednesday as follows:—It was freely circulated to-day that the Bulli and Mount Kembla miners had taken…

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Miners!

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 4

IF you want strong pit boots or real good boots and shoes for your wives and children very cheap, do not forget to call at Joshua Smith's, next Beale and Co.'s,…

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The Inverell Diamond Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 10

THE Government Geologist has furnished to the Under-Secretary for Mines the following report on the diamond-bearing formations in the…

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Miners!

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1887 · page 5

IF you want strong pit boots or real good boots and shoes for your wives and children very cheap, do not forget to call at Joshua Smith's, next Beale and Co.'s,…

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The Great Gold Secret. Chapter I.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1887 · page 2

I'm a gold-digger—that's about what I am. You wouldn't take me for an Englishman, would you, now? No, nor yet any one else that knows me ;…

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Miners' Annual Demonstration

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 February 1887 · page 5

MINSTERS of Demonstration Committee held at Tattersall's Hotel, Newcastle, February 12th, all the members present except Mr. M'Dougall. Mr. D. Rees in the chair…

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The Great Gold Secret. Chapter Ii

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 February 1887 · page 2

ONE afternoon, when we'd got well down among the lower ranges, we were just looking about for a place to camp (for the Spaniard who had got hurt…

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Terrible Fall Down a Coal Pit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 February 1887 · page 3

BETWEEN 9 and 10 o'clock p.m. on December 30, a shocking accident took place at the Houghton Main Colliery, near Darfield, about seven miles from…

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Ferndale Colliery Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1887 · page 3

WE have been requested by Mr. George Hewison, secretary Ferndale Colliery Company, to disabuse the public mind of a false impression…

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Breaches of the Mining Regulations. Heavy Fines Imposed. Cases in Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1887 · page 6

AT the Newcastle Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. James Mair, P.M., and Mr. G. C. Martin, J.P., two eases of infringement of the coal…

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Public Meeting at Kimberley. Miners' Want the Law Altered. Petition to the Government

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1887 · page 6

A LARGELY attended representative meeting was held in front of Mr. M'Phee's butchering establishment, Hall's Creek, Kimberley diggings, on…

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Queensland Gold-Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 February 1887 · page 5

The Central Gold mining Company, Charters Towers, Queensland, has been registered, with a capital of £300,000…

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Burwood Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 February 1887 · page 5

THE above miners held their usual monthly general meeting on Friday evening in Mr. Griffiths' Albert Victor Hotel. Bulwood, Mr. E. Chappel in the chair…

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Colliery Explosion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 February 1887 · page 5

A disastrous colliery explosion has taken place in the Rhondda Valley, in Wales, by which 26 miners were killed…

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