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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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Stockton Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1893 · page 5

AT a special meeting of the Stockton miners Mr. J. Leitch, the local chairman, presiding, the report was road of the six special inspectors who had examined the mine, and upon the…

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Accident at the Stockton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1893 · page 5

YESTERDAY a carpenter named G. T. Lee, employed at the colliery at Stockton, met with at severe accident, by which one of his legs was badly broken. The injured man…

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Cardiff, Barry, and Penarth Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1893 · page 4

Official statements have just been issued showing the trade last year at the Bute, Barry, and Swansea Docks. During the year the coal and coke shipments from Cardiff, Barry, and Penarth amounted to the…

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Alleged Robbery of Gold. a Boy Charged. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1893 · page 5

THOMAS O'LEARY, a boy about 15. was charged before the Water Police Bench this morning with the theft of 6½oz of gold, the property of the Australian Drug Co. The…

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Browns' Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 8

FOR the ensuing pay the Duckenfield Colliery has worked 8 days, Browns' No. 2 tunnel 3 days, and No. 4 tunnel 2 days. The new screens have got to work all right, but…

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Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 8

THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held on Wednesday evening, Mr. M. Gray in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting and a…

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Mining Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 12

[?]HE Glen Taggart goldfield (S.A.), which has found employment principally unprofitable for a good many [?]en, is severely condemned by some…

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Miners' Meetings. Duckenfield and Back Creek

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 3

THE Duckenfield and Back Creek miners held their usual monthly meeting on Wednesday evening in Mr. T. Sharp's Hall, Mimi, Mr. J. M. Gray presiding…

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Correspondence. Coal Mines Regulation Bill. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 April 1893 · page 8

SIR,—I see that J.R. asked for a small space in your paper as to the above, and I think for all practical purposes it would have been better…

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Dynamite in Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 April 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Twelve pounds of dynamite have been discovered on board a collier named the Baunmor. The boat was on her way from San…

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Mr. A. Brown and Miners' Strikes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 April 1893 · page 7

The following letter signed by F. W. Bniney has been published by the Sydney morning papers:—In the course of his speech on the Newcastle…

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Correspondence. the Stockton Mine. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 April 1893 · page 6

SIR,—The fining of the manager of the above colliery, as reported in your columns this morning, leaves this matter in statu quo. The position of…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. MINING

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 April 1893 · page 5

MINING matters' at Billamere and Mount Drysdale, two miles west of Billamere, are much improving, especially at the latter place, the diggers now putting through…

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Colliery Items. South Waratah

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1893 · page 5

EVER since South Waratah pit has been opened out it has been the custom with the company to run a trolly morning and evening to and from the colliery for the convenience…

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Explosion in a Mine

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

LONDON, Sunday.—News has been received of a terrible colliery explosion which took place at the Shamokf Colliery, Pennsylvania (U.S.). An…

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Durham Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 April 1893 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—Owing to the depression in the coal trade 10,000 miners, who were employed at the Durham collieries are unemployed. The employers are enforcing a…

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Broken Hill Mining. Development at Block 10. Broken Hill

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

A DEVELOPMENT of considerable interest has occurred in the deep level of the Block 10 mine which may lead to most important results in the near future. From the south…

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Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers. Inaugural Meeting. ADELAIDE, Tuesday Midnight

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

THE inaugural meeting of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers was held in the Exhibition Building to-night. Dr. Campbell occupied the chair in the absence of…

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The Northern Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1893 · page 8

A MEETING of miners employed in the Northern pit was held at Teralba on Tuesday evening, with the object of discussing the action of the management in giving the men…

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The Greta Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1893 · page 8

AT a meeting of the miners on Tuesday night, Mr. J. Thompson in the chair, Mr. J. Connelly (delegate) tendered his resignation as the lodge's representative at the delegate…

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