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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

1,640 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 80 of 82

Gold Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 4

FROM the large finds of alluvial and reef gold now being found at Coolgardie and other places in West Australia, it is very evident that for many years to come the gold-mining…

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The Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 5

A special meeting of the Lambton miners was hold last night in Baker's Hall; Mr. D. Mason in the chair. The deputation who had waited on the…

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The Greta Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 5

The adjourned meeting of Tuesday of the Greta Miners' Lodge was held on Wednesday. evening, Mr. W. Jackson in the chair. The chairman called on the delegate, Mr…

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The Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 5

A special meeting of the Wallsend miners was held in the hall of the Wallsend School of Arts on Wednesday evening, Mr. R. Punton in the chair. There was a very large…

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The Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 5

A special meeting of the Co-operative miners was held in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute yesterday afternoon to consider the district business. Mr. H. Delargie was in…

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The South Waratah Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 5

A special meeting of the Waratah Miners' Lodge was held at Adamstown last night. The meeting was called for the purpose of dealing with the minutes of the delegate…

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The Seaham Miners. West Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 5

The Seaham miners to-night rejected unanimously the recommendation of the delegate board to accept the A.A. Company's terms. The meeting looked with disfavour…

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Correspondence. the Crisis in the Coal Trade. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 8

SIR,—The crisis has come on us at last, and that with a vengeance. It has been very popular of late to blame the high price of coal, the high…

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The Coal Trade. the Position of the A.A. COMPANY. The Action of Other Proprietors

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 5

THERE were no fresh developments yesterday in the coal trade, and beyond a little unusual activity at the various shipping offices there was nothing to denote the presence of the…

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The West Australian Goldfields. News from Bailey's Reward Claim Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 5

JORDAN, Lyon, and party have arrived at Southern Cross from Bailey's Reward claim, bringing 7600oz of gold. They state that the new discovery at Bailey's South was made at…

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A New Zealand Coal Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 3

ARRANGEMENTS have just been completed to work the Kawakawa (N.Z.) coal mine, which was recently closed, upon the tributing system. A number of well tried miners have…

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Gold-mining at Croydon

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. Davis, who is interested in mining in Queensland, is at present in London, with the object of arranging for an…

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The New Lambton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 5

The New Lambton miners, who have been suspended by the Miners' Association for accepting less than district prices, have received no notice of a further reduction from the…

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The Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 5

The Glebe miners held a special meeting in Simpson's Hall, Merewether, on Thursday, Mr. John Lloyd presiding. The hall was crowded with members…

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The Borehole Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 5

The Borehole miners met yesterday, at Mrs. Love's Hotel, Adamstown. There was a large attendance. The meeting was called for the purpose of dealing with the question…

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Cornish Copper Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 7

OUR Barraba correspondent writes:—The party of smelters sent up by the company about three weeks ago to convert the ore at bank from the above mine into regneus…

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The Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 5

It is understood that the deputation appointed at the special meeting of the Wallsend miners on Wednesday evening interviewed Mr. Ross, the manager, on Thursday…

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The Greta Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 5

The miners' secretary has not received any reply as yet from the colliery manager in answer to the deputation which interviewed him on the dirt and yardage question,…

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Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 11

THE miners will have one more pay to draw this year, and to all appearances it will be some time before many of them have a second one. The state of…

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The Sea Pit Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 5

The Sea Pit Miners held a meeting at the Merewether Hotel on Thursday. Mr. Joseph Halliday occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance…

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