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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1891

1,077 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 48 of 54

Greta. Colliery News

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 November 1891 · page 7

The pay on Friday amounted to £1280 for five and three-quarter days, and the pit has worked three and a-half days during the past…

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The Maitland Colliery. End of the Lock-Out

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 November 1891 · page 5

THE lock-out in the Maitland Colliery, which has now existed for 11 weeks, was terminated on Friday, the management agreeing to the terms of the miners. The dispute arose…

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South Australia. Closing of Wallaroo Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 November 1891 · page 6

Following upon the notice to close the Wallaroo smelters, the directors have intimated that it has become necessary to suspend operations at the…

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The Reduction in the Selling Price of Coal. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 November 1891 · page 8

Sir,—The proposed reduction in the selling price of coal has already received some attention through the columns of your paper. But no one hitherto has been bold enough to…

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Mine Managers' Reports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 November 1891 · page 5

Bonang Gold-mining Company, Limited.—The mine manager reports under date Nov. 12th: Since my last report nothing startling has taken place at the mine. The reef continues…

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The Price of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 November 1891 · page 4

THE subject of the threatened redaction of the price of coal from the Associated Collieries is naturally exciting the most intense interest in the northern district. On the 1st…

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The Selling Price of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 November 1891 · page 4

THE Associated Colliery proprietors meet in the Wallsend Coal Company's office, Sydney, to-day. The principal business to be dealt with is the request of the delegate board of…

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French Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 November 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Ten thousand additional miners in the north of France have struck work. In order to prevent any disorder, the gendarmes have been called out…

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The Associated Collieries. Meeting Postponed SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 November 1891 · page 5

THE meeting of the Associated Colliery Proprietors, convened for to-day, to consider the request by the Miners' Association for a conference to discuss, the proposed reduction in…

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The Broken Hill Proprietary Mine. a New System of Quarrying. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 November 1891 · page 5

The principal discussion here is an innovation of the Proprietary directors in quarrying away the upper portion of the mine. Already there is a large crack in the…

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Correspondence Technical Education Examinations. Coal Mining. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 November 1891 · page 8

SIR,—Being in Newcastle yesterday, I saw a notice outside the School of Arts, intimating costmining students that the annual examination will be…

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The Lambton Miners' Lodge. Special Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 November 1891 · page 8

A SPECIAL meeting of the Lambton miners was held in Baker's Hall, Lambton, last evening, for the purpose of considering the weighbridge question and the discharge of…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Wednesday. the Moonta Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 November 1891 · page 5

At a meeting of the Moonts miners this morning £85 were received from the Trades and Labour Council, and £500 was promised from Broken Hill. A new conciliation…

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The Reduction of Coal. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 November 1891 · page 8

Sir,—Will you allow me space for a word or two on the above. I may say at the beginning that I do not see the need for a reduction at present,…

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Terrible Colliery Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 8

A VIOLENT explosion occurred in the Richardson Colliery, belonging to the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, at Glen Carbon,…

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Stockton Colliery Employees' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 8

A SPECIAL, meeting of those employed at the Stockton colliery was hold last night for the purpose of receiving a letter from Doctor Bon[?]fic, late medical officer to the Stockton…

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The Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 4

THE proposed meeting of the Associated Proprietors which had been convened for Tuesday last, to consider the request of the Miners' Association…

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Miners' Risks. Another Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 5

YESTERDAY morning about 8 o'clock a fatal accident occurred at the Wallsend Colliery to a miner named Thomas Parkes, an old resident of Wallsend, although recently…

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The Burwood Extended Colliery. Settlement of the Dispate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 5

ON Wednesday afternoon a conference with respect to the dispute existing in the Burwood Extended Colliery was held between Mr. Foster Brown and Mr. Wilson Rennie,…

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The Western Miners. Strike at Hartley Vale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 5

MR. THOMAS DIX, the general secretary of the Miners' Association, has received a letter from the secretary of the Western miners. The communication states that the miners…

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