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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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Miners' Meeting. GLEBE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 June 1893 · page 6

THE regular monthly meeting of the members of the Glebe Lodge was held in Simpson's Hall on Monday night. Mr. John Lloyd occupied the chair,…

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Miners' Aggregate Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 June 1893 · page 4

THE miners' lodges in the district have decided to accept the recommendation of the delegate board, and hold an aggregate meeting in the Lambton Park on Saturday next,…

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Price of Coal in Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 June 1893 · page 6

WITH reference to the recent interview between the coal importers and the Premier of Victoria, the following letters have been sent to the Melbourne…

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Gold for London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 June 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Gold is still flowing in large quantities into the Bank of England. £2,000,000 is expected to be received this week…

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Fatal Accident in the Wallsend Colliery. The Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 June 1893 · page 3

AN inquest was held yesterday at the Criterion Hotel, Nelson-street, Plattsburg, before the district coroner, touching the death of…

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Coal Contracts for Railway Service. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 June 1893 · page 5

MR. SCHEY gave notice of the following question for to-morrow:—To ask the Treasurer will he lay upon the table of the House a return showing the coal contracts for the…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Wednesday. Mount Morgan Gold Crushings

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 June 1893 · page 5

The Mount Morgan gold crushings for the month of May amounted to 5200 tons, which yielded 10,600oz gold. RETRENCHMENT…

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Northern Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 4

A MEETING of the Northern miners was held at Teralba on Wednesday, with the object of considering the proposed co-operative scheme. Mr. James Curley, miners' general secretary,…

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Miners' Aggregate Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 5

AN aggregate meeting of the miners of the Hunter River District will be held on the Lambton Park at 11 o'clock to-morrow forenoon to consider co-operative schemes…

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Stockton Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 8

THE quarterly meeting of the above lodge was held on Wednesday night, Mr. J. Leitch, local chairman, presiding. The minutes were first read, received, and…

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Miners' Meeting. GRETA

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 3

THE monthly meeting of the Greta miners was held on Tuesday night, Mr. J. Thompson in the chair. The minutes of the previous…

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Coal in New Mexico

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 2

A FOREIGN Office report for the year 1892 on the trade of the consular district of Galveston states that coalmining is one of the most important…

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Miners' Risks. Fatal Accident at Duckenfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 8

A FATAL accident occurred yesterday morning about 10 o'clock through a fall of coal in Brown's No. 2 Tunnel Shaft heading section to Benjamin Miller, a resident of Plattsburg…

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Western Australia. Perth, Thursday. MINING

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 5

Advices received from Yilgarn state that is new discoveries of gold are reported, but a large number of men are constantly leaving in the new find. Definite news is expected…

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The Maritime Trouble. The S.S. Norkoowa. Coal-trimmers Waiting her Arrival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 5

ABOUT a quarter to 12 o'clock last night a steamer supposed to be the Norkoowa from Melbourne with the non-union crew on board was off the port, but stood away again…

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Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Thursday, June 8. Coal Contracts for the Railways. Colonel Spalding on Sick Leave. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 5

THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m., and read messages from the Governor convoying his assent to the Lunacy Bill and the Vine Diseases Bill…

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The Western Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1893 · page 8

ON Wednesday night the notices given, by the proprietors at the Lithgow and Hermitage pits ceased, and work there was suspended, as the men declined to accept the…

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Pacific Co-operative Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1893 · page 5

IN another column appears the prospectus of the Pacific Co-operative Steam Coal Co., Limited, which is being formed for the purpose of purchasing the right, title, and interest…

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Mining Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1893 · page 12

MINING matters in this district were again very quiet during the week. Work on the whole was slack at the collieries, the only pits which worked…

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Co-operation in Coal-mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 June 1893 · page 4

To the outside world it will appear strange that the executive of the Hunter River Miners' Association should have convened an aggregate…

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