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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1888

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Correspondence Mr. Yates' Colliery Case. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 March 1888 · page 3

SIR,—I beg space in your paper to complain of the way the Wallsend delegate conveyed the report, of the deputation who waited on myself, re the miners and the district prices…

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Wallsend Police Court. March 9, 1888. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) the Government Examiner of Coalfields Versus J. Y. Neilson As Agent of the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co. Second Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 March 1888 · page 7

THIS was a case in which the defendant was charged with a breach of the Coal-mines Regulation Act of 1876 (39 Victoria No. 31). Mr. W. H. Edmunds, instructed by Mr…

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Victorian Gold Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 March 1888 · page 5

The syndicate which was formed to purchase Rowe Brothers' goldmine at Fryerstown, Victoria, has withdrawn from the contract. Mr. James…

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Annual Demonstration of the Amalgamated Miners' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 March 1888 · page 6

ON Saturday the annual demonstration of the Miners' Amalgamated Association was held at Lambton. This yearly reunion is looked forward to…

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Wallsend Police Court. March 10, 1888. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.m.) the Government Examiner of Coalfields Versus J. Y. Neilson As Agent of the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co. Third Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 March 1888 · page 5

THE Court opened at 10 o'clock. Alexander Ross had been manager of Newcastle Coalmining Company's colliery for ten years. Had been sixteen years in the…

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Mr. Yates' Colliery Case. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1888 · page 7

SIR,—I wish to say a few words anent Mr. Curley's letter, published in your issue of the 10th inst., pretending to be an explanation or…

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A New Coal-mining-company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1888 · page 5

WE are glad to be able to announce that another new avenue of industry will shortly be opened in this district. We understand that Mr. John Jackson, the well-known…

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Glebeland. Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1888 · page 8

The above miners held a special general meeting on Monday evening last in Simpson's Hall. The attendance was very fair. Mr. John W. Lloyd occupied the chair…

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Burwood. Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1888 · page 6

The above miners held their usual monthly general meeting on Tuesday evening, in Mrs. Golding's Albert Victor Hotel. The attendance was…

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Higher Prices for Coal Expected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1888 · page 8

THE San Francisco Post says:—The price of the best quality of steam coal depends almost entirely upon the condition of the wheat market. In former days ships in England…

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Correspondence Wickham and Bullock Island Miners. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1888 · page 8

SIR,—I have been instructed by the members of W. and B.I. Lodge to respectfully ask you to publish the following copy of a letter which was sent by us to the Evening News…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Thursday. Mining Excitement at an End

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 March 1888 · page 5

The excitement over silver shares is quite dead here. VICTORIAN RAILWAY ASSOCIATION. The annual conference of the…

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Miners' Delegate Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1888 · page 2

MINUTES of a special delegate meeting held at Newcastle, on Friday, March 16th, 1888. Lodges represented: Borehole,…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1888 · page 11

THE Balarat Courier states: A sad and fatal accident occurred at the No. s shaft of the sulieman Pasha Company, Main-street a fine on Saturday…

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The Metropolitan Coal Company's Property

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1888 · page 7

MESSRS. GRESLEY LUKIN AND CO. report that on Wednesday, the 14th instant, the coal was struck at 1095ft. in the shaft of the Metropolitan Coal…

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District News. Hamilton. Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 March 1888 · page 7

The quarterly meeting of the Borehole lodge was held last Saturday evening. There was a large attendance, and Mr. A. Curry occupied the…

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South Waratah Miners. a Strike Probable

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 March 1888 · page 5

The above miners held a special meeting on Saturday night at Mrs. Love's Hotel, Adamstown. There was a large attendance, only about ten of the miners working at the…

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Fatal Riot at a Copper Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 March 1888 · page 8

SOME serious rioting has occurred at the Rio Tinto Mines Huclva, Spain, and in a collision between the troops and the rioters ten persons were…

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The South Waratah Colliery Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1888 · page 5

FROM the report which appears in another column it will be seen that the dispute between the management of the South Waratah Colliery and the miners has reached a crisis,…

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Hamilton Miners. Thirty-fourth Check-inspectors' report of the A.A. Company's collieries, Newcastle, N.S. Wales. Commenced this inspection March 7th, 1888

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1888 · page 3

We first visited Cope's heading, and the current of air passing was 10,300 cubic feet per minute. Below engine bank, 33,120 cubic feet per minute,…

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