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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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Floods in Queensland. the Country Under Water. Numerous Drowning Fatalities. A Colliery Swamped. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 February 1893 · page 5

THE postal authorities state that intelligence has been received that a portion of the Queensland railway line between Ipswich and Toowoomba is under water, and that the…

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A Queensland Colliery Flooded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1893 · page 3

LATER particulars concerning the dreadful colliery disaster which occurred at Ipswich (Q.) about noon on Saturday, bring news of the death of…

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Accident at a Ballarat Mine. a Steam Pipe Bursts. MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1893 · page 5

AN alarming mining accident occurred at Ballarat this morning at the Sir Henry Loch mind. Shifts were being changed, when a steam-pipe connected with the engine burst,…

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The Welsh Coal Miners. Reduction in Wages

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 February 1893 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—The Welsh coal miners have renewed the proposal to the employers to accept portion of the reduction in wages…

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Broken Hill Mining. Work at the Junction Mine. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 February 1893 · page 5

AT the Junction mine the men working in the carbonate stopes at the back of the 150ft and 200ft levels in Brown's shaft have been temporarily removed to the sulphite the stopes at…

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A Progressive Goldfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 February 1893 · page 4

THE figures relative to the output of gold from the Johannesburg fields, in the Transvaal, are interesting additions to the literature of gold-mining. The officially declared…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1893 · page 5

AT the New Broken Hill Extended mine the volume of water carrying in at the shaft is increasing, and the pump has now to deal with something like 70,000 gallons per diem…

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The Southern Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 8

FOLLOWING in rapid succession the reductions at South Clifton and Kembla (says the Bulli and Clifton Times), it is not to be wondered at that the notification of a reduction in the…

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Miners' Meeting. Stockton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 5

THE regular monthly mooting of this lodge was held last night, Mr. John Leitch, local chairman, presiding. The minutes of the last ordinary and of…

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Exhaustion of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 3

SIR ROBERT BALL, Professor of Astronomy, lately delivered in London a lecture to young people, who more than filled the theatre of the Royal…

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The Proposed Coal Trust

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 4

A GENERAL meeting of the shareholders in the Burwood Coal Mining Company will be held in Sydney to-day to consider the proposal made by the coal trust promoters to…

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The Large Cargo Steamers and the Newcastle Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 4

The enormous cargo steamers at present tramping the ocean in any direction that a freight is to be obtained, are playing up with the sailing fleet of merchantmen to an extent that surprises all persons…

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(From Sydney and Melbourne Papers.) Gold Currency in Russia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.—Prom St. Petersburg it is reported that the Czar has resolved upon instituting a gold currency, and of negotiating with…

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Parliament Legislative Assembly. Cost of Last General Election. The Conspiracy Laws. Dining-room Cars. Land Resumed for Railway Purposes. The Queensland Floods. Mining on Private Property. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 5

AFTER our report of the proceedings in the Assembly last night bad concluded, the consideration of the Mining on Private Property Bill in committee was continued, and at 2.30…

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The Coal Trust. Burwood Coal Mining Company. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1893 · page 5

THE adjourned general meeting of the share holders of the Burwood Coal Mining Company was held to-day at the Chamber of Commerce. There was a large attendance,…

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Victory Gold-mining Co. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1893 · page 5

AN application was made to Mr. Justice Manning in Chambers this morning on behalf of Charles James Buckland and others, shareholders in the Victory Gold-mining…

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Mine Managers' Reports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1893 · page 2

THE Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Limited.—Report for week ending 1st February:— M'Culloch's shaft, No. 2 level, south-west drive extended 3ft; total, 437ft; work at…

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A Tasmanian Tin Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1893 · page 12

THE newly-arrived manager of the Brookstead Proprietary (Tin), Tasmania (Mr. J. B. Tonner), writes to the Hobart agent as follows:—'A…

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Mining Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1893 · page 12

THE old boom-time practice of dealing in mining scrip forfeited for non-payment of calls has been revived at Ballarat. At the last meeting of the…

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Select Poetry. Gold and Silver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1893 · page 10

ALONG her father's field they strayed, All flecked with cowslips yellow, A little, dainty, gold-haired maid, A sturdy nine-year fellow…

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