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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1889

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Miners' Meeting. Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 October 1889 · page 5

A SPECIAL meeting of the Borehole Lodge was held last evening at the Mechanics' Institute. The attendance was much larger than has been for some time. Mr. J. Jennings…

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Miners' Delegate Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 October 1889 · page 6

MINUTEs of a quarterly delegate meeting held October 3rd, 1889. Lodges represented : Borehole, Wallsend, Lambton, Co-operative, Glebe, Back Creek and Duckenfield, Greta,…

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Black Mountain Gold-Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1889 · page 5

The mining manager reports under date, September 28.—"Mine looking well; 2ft of quartz in face of drive at 140ft level, with good show of gold through stone…

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Australian Mining News. the Barrier Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1889 · page 2

THE following quantities of silver lead ore have been dispatched during the past fortnight:—From the Pioneer Silver-mine, 15 trucks, value £1370; and Goat-hill…

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Fatal Colliery Explosion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1889 · page 10

A FATAL colliery explosion occurred at a pit worked by the Chell Colliery Company, Hanley, which, had the men been working at the time, might have been attended by…

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Miners' Delegate Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1889 · page 2

ADJOURNED delegate meeting, held at the Rouse Hotel, October 4th, 1899. All the lodges represented, with the district president and treasurer. Mr. Thomson was in the…

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Carelessness in Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1889 · page 10

THE report of Mr. Harold Thomas, the commissioner appointed by the Home-office to inquire into the circumstances attending an explosion by which twenty men and boys lost…

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Gold Export

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1889 · page 5

NEW YORK, Thursday.—A large quantity of gold is now being shipped hence to Europe…

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Big Colliery Strike. 10,000 Men Out

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—A strike of collieries has occurred in the district of Bolton, Lancashire, and ten thousand men have gone out…

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The Victorian Coal Commission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1889 · page 7

AT a meeting of the Victorian Coal Commission held the other day, Nathaniel Levi was examined, and stated that he was the holder of a lease covering 640 acres of coal…

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Bay of Islands Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The prospectus of the Ngkawau, Westport, Coal Company, with a capital of £100,000, will be issued shortly. Sir W. J. D. Jervois, G.C.M.G.,…

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South Australia. Mining Managers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1889 · page 2

In deciding a claim by Alex. Wild against the Great Matrix Ruby Company, in liquidation, at the local court, Judge Bundey held that where a mining manager was engaged on…

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Miners' Meeting. Lambton. Important Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 October 1889 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was held on Friday evening in Ralph's Druids Hall, Mr. D. Mason in the chair. The object of the meeting was to consider the…

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Australian Mining News. the Barrier Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1889 · page 6

NEWS having come through to the effect that Round Hills were selling at £150 in Melbourne, another inspection of the mine was made early on. Saturday morning. There…

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Miners' Risks. A.A. Co.'s No. 2 Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1889 · page 8

A MINER named John Young, who was employed in the A.A. Co.'s No. 2 pit, met with a very serious accident yesterday afternoon, and narrowly escaped being killed on the spot…

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Coal-Saving Invention

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The Agents-General for the various Australian colonies have received invitations to the present at a series of experiments to test the value of a process for…

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The Gippsland Coal Resources

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1889 · page 3

A DEPUTATION, representing the Great Mor-well Coal Company, waited on the Victorian Premier to ask him to construct a railway from a point on the Gippsland railway…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade and Protection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1889 · page 4

THE S. M. Herald has recently exhibited a touching solicitude for the welfare of the miners of Newcastle. That great organ of the importing…

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Latest Mining. The Round Hill Boom. MELBOURNE, Monday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1889 · page 8

Great excitement prevailed to-day over the recent Bound Hill boom. The shares were sold down to £9 12s. Mr. Fitzgerald Moore denies having authorised Mr. Dix to…

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The Coming Election. Mr. Curley Addresses the Electors. The Mining Regulation Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1889 · page 5

MR. JAMES CURLEY, the miners general secretary, who is going to contest the New-castle electorate on the Freetrade ticket, addressed a large assemblage of people from…

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