Interviewing the Colliery Proprietors. SYDNEY
Canon Selwyn, and Mr. J. Creer, M.L.A., interviewed several coal proprietors, with reference to the strike to-day. They were accompanied by Mr. Brunker, M.L.A., but,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1888
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Sympathy of the Broken Hill Miners. Broken Hill
At a meeting of the Broken Hill branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association it was resolved that a levy should be made on the minors there, with the view of helping the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Taranganba Gold Mine. SYDNEY
THE Chairman, Mr. E. Vickery, and Mr. John Keep, a director of the Taraganba Gold Mine, are now on a visit to that property, and have wired the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kawa Kawa Colliery. to the Editor
SIR,—As an old colonial hand, I have been much interested in the news which I have seen in the Herald and Advocate, which our manager, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Coal Supply
In connection with the proposed purchase of the Rix's Creek Colliery by the Government, we are informed that it is intended that each locomotive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney and the Southern Mines
The Water and Sewerage Department estimate that the supply of coal on hand will keep their engines at Crown-street and Botany going for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Crisis and the Victorian Assembly
THE importance of the unhappy dispute now existing between the Newcastle coal proprietors and their workmen may be judged from the fact that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bonang Gold-mining Company
MESSRS. JAMES FLETCHER AND CO., legal managers for the above company, report having received the following satisfactory information from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Southern Collieries
Fresh hands are being put on at the various Southern collieries every day. Some men from Newcastle have started work during the week. The harbour is full of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lambton Miners
A meeting of the above miners was held in the Park yesterday morning. Our correspondent was present to take notes, but a resolution, at the instigation of the delegates,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Queensland Coal
Lewis Thomas, of the Aberdare colliery, has received an order from the British India-Company for all the coal obtainable from the mines. The Ipswich mines are very busy,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' Average Pay
A great amount of capital has been made by certain sections of the community out of the bogus pay-sheets published in the Sydney press as a true statement of the average…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Small Mines
Great activity is apparent in the small coal-mines near Maitland. Lighters are now daily taking in large quantities of coal from Four-mile Creek, Thornleigh and Bloomfield…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →More Southern Coal
An important discovery of coal has been made near Picton, on the Southern line—a large area, comprising about 2500 acres of land, having been secured by a Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A New Zealand Coal Company
THE Westport (New Zealand) Coal Company have declared a dividend of 2½per cent. for 1887. The directors report that the Westport mine was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Metropolitan Coal Company of Sydney
THE second annual general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yesterday (July 26) at the Cannon-street Hotel, the Right Hon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Coal—No Water—No Gas
At the last meeting of the Parramatta Council the contractor for supplying coal to the waterworks notified that he would be unable to supply coal at his contract prices…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company
We learn that several of the shareholders of the Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company are conferring among themselves, with a view to holding a meeting for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Strike The Miners' Delegate Board. Supposed Favourable Negotiations
THE miners' delegates held their adjourned meeting at Tattersall's Hotel, Blane-street, yesterday. The meeting was held with closed doors, and all intelligence of what had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Brookstown Mine
With reference to the ceasing of work at the Brookstown mine, Mr. Snedden wrote to the Delegate Board as follows: "To the Hunter River…
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