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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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THE other day Messrs. Campbell and Nicholson, Ms.P. for the Illawarra district, wrote to the Railway Commissioiners asking them to receive a deputation from Illawarra…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. W. DONNELLY has received a telegram from Mr. W. S. Baker, of Moonanbrook, stating that a very rich specimen of gold had been found in the Lady Mary Claim, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GRETA at the present time is an incorporated town with a population within its municipal boundaries of about 1700 people. From the account of the distress existing among them,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TO-MORROW morning Messrs. Dowel, M.P., and Creer will leave Sydney for Lithgow, where they will be interviewed by men desirous of going away to the goldfields…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE reduction of 1s per ton in the price of Newcastle coal has not, so far, had much effect in stimulating demand from San Francisco. Mr. J. W…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DURING the early part of this week some excitement was caused by a number of men being set at work to dig up the ground in the vicinity of Mrs. Macquarie's Chair in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—In connection with the colliery strike, disturbances of a serious nature have occurred in Wales, the miners who continued…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Goon reports are being received from Coolgardie. Cashman's find at the 45-Mile Station appears to be good. The man who brings the news has seen men who handled a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE strike of coal-miners in England has already lasted much longer than the public imagined it would. On June 30th a meeting of colliery proprietors was held in London, at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY afternoon William Hope, a miner residing at Adamstown, met with a serious accident in the Newcastle A pit. A middle shot had just been fired, and Hope was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Tuesday morning a young man named Desmond, employed at the Hetton Colliery as a wheeler and living at Stockton with his father, John Desmond, a well-known miner,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—In consebuence of the riotous behaviour of the coal miners on strike at Ebbw Vale, in South Wales, 200 soldiers have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Cardiff Colliery, where a dispute exists, has been let on tribute to Messrs. W. Murry and W. Doughie. There are at present 20 miners employed getting coal. It is stated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. GEORGE HOGG has leased the New Lambton Colliery from the proprietors. During the present week Mr. Hogg has had a few men employed timbering, and, it is stated,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Duckenfield and Back Creek lodge of miners held their monthly meeting on Thursday evening in Sharp's Hall. Mr. J. M. Gray presided. There was a good…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A SPECIAL meeting Of the shareholders in the Leigh's Creak Coal-mining Company was held in Adelaide on Monday evening, there being 183 shareholders present. It will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DURING the past week the Wallsend Colliery has not turned a wheel, so that the prospects for the next pay is anything but encouraging. The Co-operative Colliery has worked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was h[?]ld on Wednesday evening in Banker's Hall, Mr. D. Mason in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FOR the pay yesterday some of the collieries in the district worked well, but the majority only had half-time. Stockton as usual worked full time,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →LONDON, Friday.—Serious disturbances again occurred at Ebbw Vale, Wales, between the miners on strike and those who remained at work…
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