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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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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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The Newcastle Coal Company and the Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1893 · page 5

A DEPUTATION from the Glebe Miners' Lodge waited on Mr. Stewart Keightley, the general manager of the Newcastle Coal Company, yesterday afternoon, with reference to the…

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The Southern Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1893 · page 7

MOUNT KEIRA Colliery on Saturday loaded the schooner Isabelle, and Mount Pleasant the Garron. On Thursday the brigantine Stanley took…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1893 · page 5

AT the New North the machinery is now fairly started, and pumping operations were commenced this morning. The Proprietary Co, have fixed a small pump adjacent to the…

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The Wallsend Colliery. Half-Yearly Report

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1893 · page 7

THE report of the Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company for the half-year ended December 31, 1892, states that business during the half-year was not…

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The Weighing of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1893 · page 8

DURING the sitting of the Weight AND Measures Board on Monday, Mr. Herbert Raymond, general merchant, trading as H. Raymond and Co., in Sydney, gave some…

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Wallsend District Mining Hospital

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1893 · page 3

A MEETING of the provisional committee was held in the Wallsend Council-chambers on Monday evening. Present: Messrs. A. Ross, H…

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Meeting of the Greta Miners. Considering the Directors' Letter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1893 · page 8

A MEETING of the members of the Greta Miners' Lodge was held last evening for the purpose of considering the letter received from the board of directors with reference to…

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CABLEGRAMS. Mining Accident in Wales. Seven Men Killed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—A terrible mining accident is reported from Aberdare, in the south of Wales. A number of miners were engaged in sinking a…

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A Coal-mining Village

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1893 · page 8

A MODEL village is being built for the miners of the Bolsover Colliery, near Chesterfield, England, by the Duke of Portland, at the suggestion of the…

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Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1893 · page 3

A SPECIAL general meeting of the members of the above lodge was held on Tuesday night. Mr. John Lloyd occupied the chair…

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Correspondence. the Miners' Association. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1893 · page 7

SIR,—In your issue of to-day appears a letter purporting to be written by a "Northern Miner." It would have been more judicious on his part had…

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Waratah Coal Company. Extraordinary Meeting. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1893 · page 5

AN extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the Waratah Coal Company was held to-day, when the following resolutions were carried with a proviso that the purchase should be…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1893 · page 5

THE South mine overhead tram is now complete, and measures, from the plat at hauling shaft to the railway line, 210ft. A double set of rails is laid, and trucking commenced…

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Stockton Coal Company, Limited. Half-Yearly Meeting. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1893 · page 8

THE twentieth half-yearly general meeting the Stockton Coal Company, Limited, was held to-day, at the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Thos. Cowlishaw in the chair. The…

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CABLEGRAMS. Terrible Mining Disaster. Explosion in a Colliery. One Hundred and Thirty Miners Reported Killed Threatening Attitude of Relatives

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 January 1893 · page 4

BUDA-PESTH, Wednesday.—A terrible colliery disaster is reported from Toplitz. The explosion of firedamp occurred at a time when a large…

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Miners' Meeting at Greta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 January 1893 · page 7

A MINERS' meeting was hold on Wednesday night in Page's Hall, Mr. J. Spinks in the chair. The deputation which, with the…

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Burwood Coal-mining Company, Limited. Half-Yearly Meeting. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1893 · page 5

THE 17th half-yearly meeting of the Burwood Coal-mining Company, was held this morning at the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Thomas Cowlishaw, chairman of…

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Miners' Meeting. Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1893 · page 8

A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was held last evening in Baker's Hall, Mr. M. Gray in the chair. The delegate (Mr. W. Kerr) read and…

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Mining Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1893 · page 12

NEGOTIATIONS are proceeding between the New South Wales commissioners and Mr. Edward Aldridge, of Broken Hill, for exhibiting at the World's…

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