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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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Yield of Queensland Gold. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 5

THE yield of gold in the colony for the year is 602,758oz, an increase of 26,000oz upon the previous year, and it is expected that the increase will be augmented by 10,000oz or…

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CABLEGRAMS. Miners' Strike in Rhenish Prussia. One Thousand Men Dismissed. the Leaders Arrested

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 5

BERLIN, Sunday.—Further trouble is anticipated in connection with the recent strike of the miners in Rhenish Prussia owing to the masters refusing…

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The Miners' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1893 · page 4

AT the recent meeting of Wallsend miners, convened for the consideration of the question of the separation of that lodge from the Miners' Union,…

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Miners' Risks. Fatality at Burwood Extended

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1893 · page 5

YESTERDAY afternoon about 2 o'clock a minor named Theophilus Johns, age 44, was killed suddenly by a fall of side coal in the Burwood Extended Colliery. He was taking off the…

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The Mount Kembla Miners. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1893 · page 5

IN the the interview with the Mount Kembla miners about the reduction of the hewing rate, Mr. Vickery, chairman of the company, was asked to consent to refer the question to…

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Review of the Coal Trade. Outputs of the Colleries. a General Decrease

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1893 · page 5

AS anticipated the total outputs of the various collieries in the district for the year 1892 show in nearly all cases a heavy decrease as compared with the previous year. The…

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Parliament. Tuesday, 17Th January. Legislative Assembly. Woy Woy Platform. Explosion of Gas at Seaham Colliery. Newcastle Harbour Trust. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1893 · page 5

THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m., ANSWER TO QUESTIONS. Mr. SEE, in replay to Mr. STEVENSON, said thy number of railway tickets issued for Woy…

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Broken Hill Mining. The Work at Junction North. Method of Treatment. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1893 · page 5

WORK at Junction North having been pushed on, contrary to anticipations, fires were lighted in two reverberatory furnaces this morning. So far everything is going on…

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Wallsend. Colliery Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1893 · page 3

THE trade of the Wallsend Colliery has unfortunately taken a turn for the worse, as during the current week and for the greater part of last week the…

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Coal in Victoria. The Government Geologist's Report

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1893 · page 6

THE Government Geologist of Victoria, Mr. Murray, has furnished the Minister of Mines with a report on the prospects of finding coal and gold…

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The Coal Mines Bill and the Colliery Engineers. Deputation to the Minister for Mines. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1893 · page 5

A DEPUTATION from the Newcastle Colliery Engine-winders' Association was introduced to the Minister for Mines and Agriculture to-day by Messrs. Scott, Fegan, and Grahame,…

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The Coal Mines Regulation Bill. Mr. Sydney Smith's Amendments. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1893 · page 5

MR. SYDNEY SMITH, ex-Minister for Mines, has given notice of his intention to move several amendments and new clauses in the Coal Mines Regulation Bill. In clause 2 it…

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Victorian Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1893 · page 6

ON Tuesday the Railway Commissioners of Victoria were asked by a deputation from the Moe Coal Company to take a larger quantity of coal…

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Broken Hill Mining. Work at Junction North. Progress of the South Mine. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1893 · page 5

AT Junction North so far everything is going along smoothly and well, the furnaces working in a satisfactory manner. It is calculated from the large pile of…

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Accident at Greta Colliery. Very Narrow Escape. GRETA

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1893 · page 5

A MINER named Alfred Grimes, aged about 60, had a narrow escape from a sudden death at the Greta Colliery this afternoon. While at work a fall of the tops occurred,…

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Stockton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of this lodge was held on Thursday night to deal with delegate minutes and other matters. Correspondence was read from the…

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Mining Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 12

AN interesting report on the Batavia River rush, by Mr. Macdonald; warden of the Palmer goldfield, appears in the Brisbane Courier. He reached the spot…

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Wallsend. Mining Hospital

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 7

THE first annual meeting of the subscribers to the above for the election of officers &c., will be held on the 30th inst., in order that the institution may be started on a thoroughly…

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Greta. Colliery Affairs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 January 1893 · page 5

The trouble over the working of Greta Colliery, which was thought last week to be satisfactorily settled, has assumed a totally new phase, and it is within the bounds of…

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Correspondence. the Miners' Association. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 January 1893 · page 5

Sir,—For some time past it has been my opinion that our association has been on the decrease as a power to prevent injustices, or to cure them…

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