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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1894

1,402 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 50 of 71

Gold Discovery Up North. Alluvial Find near Marengo. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 August 1894 · page 5

THE Minister for Mines has received a report from the warden at Glen Innes to the effect that gold has been found by Smith and party three miles east of Marengo head station…

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The Back Creek Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 August 1894 · page 5

THE Back Creek minors held their monthly meeting on Wednesday evening in Wile's Hall, Mr. A. Snedden presiding. The secretary, Mr. R. Leighton, read the…

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The Scotch Miners' Strike. End Approaching

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 August 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The strike of Scotch coal miners, which has lasted several weeks, is now collapsing…

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Parliament. Thursday, August 30. Legislative Assembly. Coal Mines Bill. Reconstruction of Marine Board. Fegan on the Constitution. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 August 1894 · page 5

THE SPEAKER took the chair at 3 30 p.m. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. REID, in reply to Mr. EDDEN, for Mr. Schey, said that he would lay upon the…

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The Greta Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 September 1894 · page 5

THE latest information to hand re the Greta Colliery is to the effect that negotiations are still proceeding, which will probably not be concluded for some days. There can thus be…

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The Seaham Miners Grievance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 September 1894 · page 7

Ms. JAMES M'WILLIMS, of West Wallsend, writes: —" In your issue of the 18th inst. there appears a letter from the pen of Mr. James Curley in reply to mine of two days'…

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The British Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 September 1894 · page 12

A MEETING of the coalowners and miners comprising the Conciliation Board was held in London recently. After sitting for eight hours, they…

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The West Australian Goldfields. News of the Londonderry Mine. As Rich as Ever. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 September 1894 · page 5

WORK is proceeding quietly at the Londonderry Mine, and the shaft has been carried down over 78ft. The balance of the specimen stone that was lying in a log hut prior to the…

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The Scotch Miners' Strike. a Reduction Accepted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 September 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The strike of Scotch coal miners which has been proceeding for a considerable time past is now at an end, the majority of…

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The Corean War. Its Effect on the Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 September 1894 · page 5

ALTHOUGH shipping freights to Hongkong and the East generally have advanced since the outbreak of the war between China and Japan, there has been as yet very little…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Burwood Extended Coal Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 September 1894 · page 5

A MEETING of debenture holders in the Burwood Extended Coal Company, in liquidation, was held this afternoon for the purpose of considering matters generally connected with…

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Fatal Accident at East Greta Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 September 1894 · page 8

On Saturday morning John Gelder, a minor, 63 years of age, sustained fatal injuries at the East Greta Colliery. The victim had only been in the district a…

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The East Greta Colliery Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1894 · page 8

The adjourned inquest on the body of John Geldor, who was killed in the East Greta Colliery, was resumed by Mr. J. N. Brooks, District Coroner, at the West Maitland…

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Wretched State of Coal Freights

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1894 · page 4

A writer in an English exchange says :—"I do not know that coal freights were ever so bad as they are just now. Alike at the Welsh and North-Eastern ports there is a glut of tonnage arising from the…

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[From the Metropolitan Papers.] The Scotch Miners' Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1894 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday.—A riot occurred in Scotland yesterday in connection with the coal-miners' strike. About 1000 miners on strike in…

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Northern Institute of Mining Students

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1894 · page 3

AT the fortnightly meeting of the Northern Institute of Mining Students, held in the Technical School on Saturday (Mr. R. J. Jury presiding), Mr…

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Murdered by Blacks. a Newcastle Gold-Seeker's Supposed Fate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1894 · page 4

SOME months ago a man named John a Parry, of Merewether, left this city with a number of others for Coolgardie to try his luck on the goldfields. No word has been received…

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The Marble Bar Gold Find. a Story of the Discoverer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1894 · page 5

MR, ALEX. M'PHIE, one of the men reported to have struck rich gold at the Marble Bar, Western Australia, is the man who, some three years ago, brought Jo Jo, the white…

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The Borehole Colliery. Its Present Condition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 September 1894 · page 5

THE statement of a correspondent, published in yesterday's issue, to the effect that a number of the miners and others employed at the A.A. Company's Borehole Colliery are…

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The Abram Colliery, Maitland. Action for Damages. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 September 1894 · page 8

In No. 2 Jury Court to-day, before Judge Innes and a jury of four, the case of Smith v. Ralston was continued. Mr. H. E. Cohen and Mr. Hanbury…

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