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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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South Australia. Adelaide, Monday. MINING

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 February 1893 · page 5

The bullion smelted at Block 14 mine will in future be shipped to England direct from Port Pirie. UNEMPLOYED FARM HANDS…

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Proposed Stoppage of British Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 March 1893 · page 4

IT is stated by cablegram that at a meeting of delegates from the coal-miners' unions of Great Britain it was agreed to counsel a national stoppage of coal mines, with a view…

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Mine Managers' Reports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 March 1893 · page 7

THE Broken Hill Proprietary, Block 10, Company, Limited, report for week ending 18th February :—Campbell's shaft sunk 15ft, total 780ft. No…

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Miners' Meetings. Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 March 1893 · page 8

A SPEOLAL meeting of the Wallsend miners was held in the hall of the School of Arts on Monday evening; Mr. R. Punton being in the chair…

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The British Coal Trade. a National Stoppage Agreed To

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 March 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—A meeting of delegates from the Coalminers' Unions throughout Great Britain has agreed to counsel a national stoppage of coal…

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The Stockton Colliery. Government Inspection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 March 1893 · page 8

Mu. MACKENZIE, the Examiner of Coalfields, with Messrs. J. Dixon and W. Humble, closely inspected the Stockton Colliery yesterday. They proceeded to…

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Miners' Meeting. Glebe

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 March 1893 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the Globe miners, called for the purpose of considering the business done at the last delegate meeting, was held on…

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British Coal Shipments

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 March 1893 · page 4

The official figures of the year's coal shipments have now been published. The export from Newcastle-on-Tyne has fallen-off some 120,000 tons, that from Sunderland about 500,000 tons, and from…

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Brown's Collieries. Important Improvements

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 5

SINCE leaving the Colliery Proprietors' Association the firm of Messrs. J. and A. Brown have greatly increased their trade in coal, and now their pits stand at the head of…

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Miners' Meetings. Seaham

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 8

THE usual monthly meeting of the Seaham minors was held in Sharp's Hall on Wednesday evening, Mr. David Reid presiding. The minutes of the previous meeting were…

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Miners' Meeting. Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 6

THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held on Wednesday evening in Baker's Druids' Hall. Mr. M. Gray was in the chair…

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Miners' Risks. Accident at Minmi

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 8

YESTERDAY afternoon a miner named Robert Critchett was taken to the hospital from Minmi, and the medical superintendent found upon examination that he was suffering from…

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The Miners' Association. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 8

Sir,—Allow me to say a few words in your columns in reply to Mr. J. Curley, general secretary of the above association, and let me say, to begin with, that I congratulate him…

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The English Coal Trade. Proposed Stoppage Rejected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.—A meeting of delegates representing 250,000 minors employed in England and Wales held a meeting to-day for the…

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The Helensburg Mining Dispute. Before the Arbitration Court. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 5

THE Court of Arbitration sat again this morning, and took evidence regarding the dispute referred to them between the Metropolitan Coal Company and the miners in their…

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The Miners' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 March 1893 · page 11

THERE is no union in the world perhaps (writes Mr. D. R. Watkins) that has fought more earnestly for the protection of labour than the Miners'…

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Mining Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 March 1893 · page 12

OH finds of tin and gold are reported mom Rocky Point, about 30 miles [?]th of Strahan (Vic.), but nothing finite is known as to the character…

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The West Wallsend Colliery Cessation of Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 March 1893 · page 5

THE unwelcome news that the colliery would be stopped for three weeks or so was made known to-day at the office while the pay was being given out. The reason assigned is that…

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The Japanese Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 March 1893 · page 9

A Good business was done in the coal trade from Moji (Japan) last year. A report by the Meamuir says :—' During last year the coal exported from…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Friday. Coal on Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 March 1893 · page 5

All the coal heaps at the mouth of Leigh's Crock coal mine are on fire and burning fiercely. The fire was not checked in the first instance, all the men being on contract…

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