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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1892

1,106 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 46 of 56

The Belgian Miners' Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 October 1892 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The strike of miners in the Borinage district, Belgium, for higher wages, is extending, and 5000 men are now out…

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A Colliery Owner Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 October 1892 · page 3

AT Pontypool Police Court, Rees Emanuel, part owner of the Glannantddno Colliery, Monmouthshire, was summoned for violations of the…

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The West Wallsend Colliery Work Resumed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 October 1892 · page 8

WORK was resumed in the West Wallsend Colliery yesterday morning, the management having obtained the services of four nonunion enginemen to take the places of those…

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Meeting of Colliery Proprietors. the New Agreement. Proposed Amendments

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 October 1892 · page 8

THE Associated Colliery Proprietors have now completed the task of drafting a new agreement, to take the place of the present one at the beginning of the coming year. They…

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Correspondence. Falls in Coal Mines. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 October 1892 · page 5

SIR,—Although the miners have to work under many unjustifiable disadvantages through the legislative defects in the present Coal Mines' Regulation Act, it is very…

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Minmi Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 October 1892 · page 5

THE adjoined quarterly meeting was held on Wednesday evening," Mr. J. Bothwell presiding. The first business was the reading of the…

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The French Miners' Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 October 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.—As the result of an interpellation in the French Chamber of Deputies, M. Loubert, the Premier, has offered to personally arbitrate in the Carqueux…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade. The Associated Proprietors. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 October 1892 · page 4

A REPRESENTATIVE Of the Newcastle Herald to-day had interviews with several of the leading Northern colliery proprietors in Sydney, and the result of the conversations…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. the Sydney Coal Delivery Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 October 1892 · page 5

IN the, summons division of the Central Police Court to-day, Mr. James W. Evans, Inspector of Weights and Mensures, proceeded against Henry Wiggins for a breach…

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District News. Wallsend. Colliery Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 October 1892 · page 7

THE work at the Wallsend Colliery does not appear to make any rapid strides towards improvement. This fortnight the men will have three days' work for the pay, or five…

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Miners' Meetings. Sea Pit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 October 1892 · page 6

THE regular monthly meeting of the members of the above lodge was held at the Merewether Hotel on Tuesday night last. Mr. Joseph Haliday occupied the chair, and there was a…

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Accident to a Coal Train. Traffic Blocked

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 October 1892 · page 5

AT 14 minutes to 7 o'clock yesterday morning an accident occurred on the railway near the mortuary station, by which the traffic was blocked until half-past 8 o'clock on the…

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Cablegrams. a Miners' Strike in France. an Amicable Termination

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 October 1892 · page 5

PARIS, Friday:—The strike of miners at Carignan, which has been proceeding many weeks, has terminated satisfactorily. The strike arose from the…

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Original Poetry. "The Little Girl Who Once Was Mine." (Ballade.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 October 1892 · page 10

A FAIRY cottage I recall, With slumb'rous sound of waving wheat, And scent of roses 'gainst the wall, Where never tempest seemed to beat,…

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Broken Hill Strike. Condition of the Various Mines. The Furnaces Beginning to Work. Rumours of the Strike being Declared Off. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 October 1892 · page 5

ARRANGEMENTS were completed in Melbourne to-day for the British mine, whereby 40 miners were engaged, and all necessary arrangements signed. These men will be sent…

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Miners' Meetings. WALLSEND

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 October 1892 · page 3

THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held in the hall of the School of Arts on Friday evening. There was a large attendance, and…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. the Lithgow Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 October 1892 · page 5

AN aggregate meeting of the Western miners was held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Lithgow, to receive the report of the delegates who waited on the mine owners recently in…

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Stockton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 October 1892 · page 5

A SPECIAL meeting of this lodge was held last night, Mr. W. Snedden in the chair, acting for Mr. John Leitch, local chairman, who was attending a meeting elsewhere. The…

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Miners' Meetings. BOREHOLE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 October 1892 · page 3

THE regular monthly meeting of the above lodge was held at the Merewether Hotel on Saturday night last; Mr. John Harvey occupied the chair,…

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The French Miners' Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 October 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Saturday.—The miners on strike at Carmaux, France, threaten that they will not accept an adverse decision should such be given in arbitration against them…

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