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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 March 1893 · page 4

Mr. HENRY DODDS, chairman of the Central Company, and Mr. Thomas Walker, representative of the Sydney shareholders on the board of directors, arrived here on Saturday…

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Parliament Legislative Assembly. Cost of High Schools. The Tariff. Mining on Private Property Bill. The Commonage. The Estimates. Sweeping Reductions Proposed. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 March 1893 · page 5

AFTER our report of the proceedings in the Assembly concluded this morning when the House was considering the Council's amendments in the Electoral Bill progress was…

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Correspondence. Mr. Fegan and the Coal Mines Bill. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1893 · page 3

SIR,—In your issue of Wednesday Mr. E. Flynn appears to be deeply concerned about the actions of Mr. J. L. Fegan, M.P.,…

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Correspondence. Coal Mines Bill and Mr. Flynn. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 6

SIR,—I make it a rule not to reply to statements or insinuations put forth by anonymous scrawlers; consequently, I decline to notice the spit of "Spot," further than to…

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Mine Managers' Reports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 7

THE Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Limited, report for week ending 15th March: M'Culloch's new haft east sunk and timbered 15ft; total depth, 183ft. No. 2 level,…

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The Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 8

THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held in the hall of the Plattsburg Mechanics' Institute last evening. Mr. Moss was in the chair…

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Mining Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 12

MR. A. E. GLOVER, assayer of Melbourne, has treated for Mr. Corcoran, from the Murchison goldfield, West Australia, some specimens, viz.:—One…

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Wood Instead of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 6

THE Victorian Minister for Railways was informed by a deputation from the North-Eastern Municipal Association that a great saving could be effected annually by the…

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Test of Leigh's Creek Coal. Total Failure

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 8

IN order to test the Leigh's Creek coal, as against Newcastle coal, trials were made in one of the stationary boilers in the smith's shop, Islington, on January 20 and January…

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The Burwood Miners. Deputation to the Directors. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 5

A DEPUTATION consisting of the Newcastle miners' district officers (Messrs. Cook, Curley, and M'Fadyen), and Messrs. Thomson and Jury, representing the Burwood miners, had…

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The Southern Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 March 1893 · page 6

THERE is little, if anything, fresh to report on the mining situation (says the Bulli Times). It is now accepted as a foregone conclusion that a strike…

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Correspondence. Coal Mines' Regulation Bill. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 March 1893 · page 3

SIR,—Allow me a small space in your columns for a word or two on the above. In reading over yours of the 18th, I see by it that the bill has got…

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Mine Managers' Reports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 March 1893 · page 6

THE Broken Hill Proprietary, Block 10 Company, Limited, report for week ending 18th March.—Campbell's shaft sunk 7ft; total, 96ft below 715ft level…

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Miners' Meetings. Sea Pit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 March 1893 · page 7

THE quarterly meeting of the members of the above lodge was held at the Merewether Hotel on Thursday night. Mr. Joseph Haliday occupied…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. Gold Discovered

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 March 1893 · page 5

A TELEGRAM from Albury states that a rich discovery of gold is reported to have taken place on Wodonga Park, which is of a sandy formation. Some prospectors made the…

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The Greta Collieries

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

GRETA and Anvil Creek Collieries each worked six days for the fortnight ending on Saturday, and both collieries have excellent prospects of work…

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Correspondence. Mr. Fegan and the Coal Mines Bill. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 March 1893 · page 7

SIR,—Just a few lines in reply to a Mr. Franklin, of Wickham. This gentleman, in his letter dated 22nd inst., wanders considerably from the…

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The Stockton Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 March 1893 · page 4

THE charge brought yesterday in the Police Court by the Examiner of Coalfields against the manager of the Stockton mine was, evidently, from the want of any solid defence,…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

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

THERE is little new to report at the Junction. The carbonate stopes at the back of the 150ft level at Brown's shaft show some very good faces, and about 100 tons weekly are still…

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Correspondence. Coal in San Francisco. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 March 1893 · page 3

SIR,—I am sending you a piece of news I got out of the newspaper Iron. I have seen something of it before, but as this affects your district as well…

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