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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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American Gold Bonds

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

LONDON, Thursday.—The Standard states that America is trying to sell ten million 4 per cent. gold bonds in London at 116…

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Mining Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 12

MR. R. T. LITTON, London, secretary the Melbourne Geological Society Australasia, has received from Mr. W. Marsh, of Broken Hill, a sample…

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The Gartlee Miners' Case. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 5

THE Gartlee appeal case did not come on in the Full Court to-day as anticipated…

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The Wreck of the Federal. Shifted Further in Shore. Short of Provisions and Coal. A Message from the Captain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 5

The steamer Federal, which was driven ashore at the northern breakwater on Wednesday night, shifted further in shore yesterday. She lies on a sandy bottom about 400…

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Burwood Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 March 1893 · page 7

A SPECIAL meeting of the Burwood Miners was held at the Albert Victor Hotel on Saturday morning. Mr. M. Minto occupied the chair, and there…

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The Minmi Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 5

The Duckenfield tunnel has not worked since Wednesday, its being flooded stopping the hauling of sets. It is now all right again, but as the firm's railway to Hexham is still…

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Thornton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 5

Thornton Colliery, which was recently taken up by Messrs. H. Evans, C. Turner, J. Sneddon, and others, is flooded. The above gentlemen re-opened the pit some time…

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The Southern Collieries. Wollongong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 3

WHEN paying the hands at Mount Kembla Colliery last week the man ager informed the men on daily wages that at the expiration of 14 days a…

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A Rich Coal Bed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 3

SOME time ago the Argentine Government forwarded to the assayer at the Buenos Ayres Mint, for analysis, it small sample of coal from a seam…

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A New Zealand Coal Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 4

LONDON, Saturday.—The Greymouth and Port Elizabeth (N.Z.) Railway and Coal Company has been registered, with a capital of £200,000…

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The Coal Mines Bill. Conference of Representatives. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 March 1893 · page 4

MR. ADAM COOK, president, and Mr. James Curley, secretary of the Northern miners, were in Sydney to-day. This afternoon they had a conference with other representatives…

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Miners' Meetings. Burwood

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 March 1893 · page 7

A SPECIAL meeting of the Burwood miners was held at the Albert Victor Hotel yesterday afternoon. Mr. M. Minto occupied the chair, and there…

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Mine Managers' Reports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 March 1893 · page 3

THE Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Limited, report for week ending March 8 :—M'Culloch's new shaft has been sunk and timbered 16ft during…

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The Helensburg Dispute. The Council Visits the Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 March 1893 · page 8

THE Council of Arbitration—Dr. Garran, Mr. Kethel, and Mr. Brennan—together with the clerk of awards, on Tuesday visited the Metropolitan mine at Helensburg for the…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Wednesday. Mount Lyell Mining Co

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 March 1893 · page 4

At a meeting of the Mount Lyell: Mining Co. to-day, it was agreed to re-construct, the capital to be £900,000. The shareholders of the old company to receive 150,000 shares…

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Parliament Legislative Assembly. The Newcastle Commonage Question. The Coal Mines Bill. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 5

ON the motion for the adjournment last night. Mr. KELLY said he would like to know of the Government would like to know…

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Coal Mines Regulation Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 4

THE bill for laying down fresh regulations in connection with the coal-mining industry of New South Wales is now in progress through the Legislature. That such an important…

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The Southern Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 12

EVERYWHERE in the Illawarra district says the Bulli Times[?]) there is a feeling of uneasiness with respect to future developments at several of the…

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Miners' Meeting. Stockton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 3

THE quarterly meeting of the above lodge was held on Thursday night; Mr. John Leitch, local chairman, presiding. A large number of minutes of the last…

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The Stockton Colliery. a Probable Prosecution

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 4

MR. MACKENZIE, the Examiner of Coalfields, was in Newcastle yesterday, and it is stated that as the Government officials were down the Stockton colliery yesterday morning, legal,…

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