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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1889

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Miners' Meetings. Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1889 · page 7

THE monthly meeting of the above miners was held in the Horticultural Hall on Monday evening. Mr. William Hogg was in the chair…

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Queensland Miners. a Duty on New South Wales Coal. Brisbane, Tuesday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1889 · page 5

AT a mass meeting of miners at Maryborough, yesterday, it was decided to ask the Government to place a prohibition duty on New South Wales coal…

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Mining News. Crookwell

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1889 · page 4

Mining matters about Markdale and Binda are looking up, and gold can now be soon in some of the stone on the surface. As the Markdale Company's battery is working, a practical test will…

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Miners' Risk. An Accident at Minmi

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1889 · page 5

ANOTHER of those unforeseen accidents that the mining class are subjected to happened at Minmi yesterday morning. While a young man named John Pritchard was wedging a…

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Stockton School of Arts. Coal and Gas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1889 · page 8

MR. W. M. FOOTE gave his popular lecture on "Coal and Gas Making and Gas Saving" on Monday night, and went into minute details concerning the formation of coal,…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Tuesday Night. the Moonta Mines Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1889 · page 5

A mass meeting of miners was held at Moonta yesterday to hear the report of the Victorian delegates from the Australian Miners' Association who had interviewed the…

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Parliament. Tuesday, May 28, 1889. Legislative Assembly. Lieutenant Hammond. Telegraph Extension. Slack from Collieries. The Buttner Case. Railways and Rains. The Newcastle Line. SYDNEY, Tuesday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1889 · page 5

THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m. LIEUTENANT HAMMOND. In reply to a question, Sir HENRY PARKES said that Lieutenant Hammond was not on the…

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Great Colliery Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—All the members of the Westphalian collieries strike committee have been arrested. LONDON, Tuesday.—The strike committee…

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Miners' Meetings. Linwood Miners. Election of Checkweighman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1889 · page 3

A MEETING of the Linwood miners was held on Tuesday night at the colliery, to consider the checkweighman case. Mr. R. Mason, the former checkweighman,…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] The German Colliery Strikes. Further Arrests

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1889 · page 5

BERLIN, Monday.—In addition to the President of the Strikes Committee in Westphalia, who has been arrested for having used seditious language, and vehemently…

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Mining News. Sunny Corner

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1889 · page 4

Sunny Corner Silver-mining Company, Limited.—The secretary (Francis W. King) reports that during the week ended 25th instant, four cupola furnaces have worked about four and a half weeks…

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Correspondence the Wallsend Miners' Case. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1889 · page 6

SIR,—The explanatory paragraph in last Friday's issue, bearing on the above case, must be highly satisfactory to those that are aware of the facts of the case. Being…

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Lock-out at the South Wallsend Colliery. an Insurance Proposal. Men Refuse to Submit. Thirty Men Dismissed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1889 · page 8

LAST week the South Wallsend Coal Company issued a manifesto to its employees engaged in sinking a new shaft at Cardiff, stating that, after the end of the week, the…

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Great Loss at Lithgow. The Zig-Zag Bridge Washed Away.—All the Mines Closed. LITHGOW

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1889 · page 7

The rainfall since Friday has been the heaviest known for 20 years. Up to 9 o'clock yesterday morning 10.58in. were registered, and the fall during the day brings it up to…

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The Transvaal Gold Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 May 1889 · page 2

WHEN the last mail left matters were about as bad as they could be in the gold-mining markets of Johannesburg and Kimberley, South Africa. Things do not appear to have…

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Bonang Gold-mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 May 1889 · page 4

Mining Manager writes:—May 28: Since last crushing, of 120 tons, giving 150oz gold, another 30 tons have been crushed, yielding 68oz, making a total of 213oz free gold deposited with Commercial…

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Miners' Meetings. Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 May 1889 · page 3

THE monthly meeting of the above miners was held on Wednesday evening in Ralph's Druids' Hall; Mr. D. Mason in the chair. There was a good attendance…

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Re South Wallsend Miners' Insurance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 May 1889 · page 5

THE undersigned begs to state that the Insurance Company represented by him is in no way connected with the difficulty re insurance at the South Wallsend mine.—WM…

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South Australia. the Moonta Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 May 1889 · page 6

Messrs. Burton and Spence, the Victorian delegates, returned from Moonta on Wednesday night. They proceed to Melbourne on Thursday by express. They have…

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Mining News. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 May 1889 · page 4

A cash offer has been made by a syndicate of local capitalists to purchase Block 6 of the South Broken Hill mine. The leasehold of this block lies between Block 5, recently floated into an…

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