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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1894

1,402 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 66 of 71

Browns' Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 December 1894 · page 4

THE Duckenfield Colliery has worked all this week, and there is every chance of a full week. Back Creek has not been so fortunate, an there has not been a wheel turned since…

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Legislative Council. Coal Mines Regulation Bill

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

The PRESIDENT took the chair at 4.30 p.m. Mr. SIMPSON moved the adoption of the report from the committee of the whole upon the Coal Mines Regulation Bill…

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The Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 December 1894 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the Globe miners was held in Mr. Simpson's Hall on Monday evening. The attendance was fair, and Mr. J. Atkinson…

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Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 December 1894 · page 5

THE usual monthly meeting of the Lambton miners was held last evening, Mr. D.Mason in the chair. The minutes of the fortnightly committee…

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The Wallsend Miners. Deputation to the Manager

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 December 1894 · page 5

A SPECIAL meeting of the Wallsend miners was held in the hall of the Wallsend School of Arts yesterday afternoon. There was a largo attendance, several hundred being…

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The West Australian Gold-fields. Latest from Coolgardie. Rich Discovery near Perth. Coolgardie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 December 1894 · page 5

THE crosscut at Lindsey's is now 6ft in the lode, and the footwall has not been exposed. The bulk of a sample of 101b taken from the face crosscut has been treated and returned…

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The Victorian Contract for Newcastle Coal. Deputation to Ministers. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 December 1894 · page 4

A DEPUTATION from the Korumburrah and Jumbunna Coal Mining Companies waited on the Premier and Minister for Railways to-day to ask the Government to take steps…

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Legislative Council. Coal Mines Bill. Returned to the Assembly

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 December 1894 · page 5

The PRESIDENT took chair at 4.30 p.m. Mr. DAVIES gave notice that he would ask on Tuesday if a Mr. Goldstein, who was secretary of the Freetrade Council during the…

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The Seaham Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 December 1894 · page 8

A MEETING of the Seaham miners was held in Sharp's Hall on Wednesday evening, when a deputation was appointed to interview the manager re the men recently discharged for…

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The Greta Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 December 1894 · page 8

AT a meeting of Greta Miners' Lodge, held in North's Hall on Wednesday evening, Mr. J. Hanley in the chair, the question of payment for the skips left in the mine…

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Local Agreements in the Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 December 1894 · page 4

THE state of the coal-mining industry is, so far as the Newcastle district is concerned, one of transition at the present time. The old landmarks are…

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Miners' Risks. Accident at the Borehole Pit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 December 1894 · page 8

ON Tuesday night Patrick Lynch, a miner, residing on Hamilton Commonage, met with a painful accident while following his occupation in the Borehole pit. Lynch, who was…

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The Southern Coal Trade. Bellambi Harbour as the Port. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 December 1894 · page 5

THE committee recently appointed at a public meeting at Bulli to conduct an agitation to have Bellambi Harbour made the centre of the export trade waited upon the Minister…

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Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1894 · page 12

THE interesting interview with. Mr. Thomas Brown, manager of the Westport Coal Company, New Zealand published in our columns on Monday…

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The West Australian Goldfields. New Find. Coolgardie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1894 · page 5

SOME fine specimens have been brought in from a new find 55 miles north-east of Ninety Mile. The Golden Eagle mine has been purchased…

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The Coal Question in Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 December 1894 · page 4

THE determination of Mr. WILLIAMS, Victorian Minister for Railways, to enter into a contract with Melbourne importers for a supply of 180,000 tons…

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State of the Coal Trade. Proposed Further Reduction in Hewing Rates. Large Decrease at Wallarah

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 December 1894 · page 5

As anticipated, the beginning of the new year will see the present ruinous prices in the coal trade still further reduced, and already several of the larger collieries are giving the…

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Correspondence. Greta Colliery. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 December 1894 · page 7

SIR,—I fear I was wrong in anticipating a reply from Mr. M. C. Cowlishaw to my letter of recent date, and Mr. Cowlishaw has evidently come to the…

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The Sea Pit Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 December 1894 · page 5

THE Sea Pit miners met yesterday morning in the Merewether Hotel, and transacted formal business. A letter was read from Mr. Curlay, stating…

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Stealing Coal at San Francisco

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 December 1894 · page 4

Word is to hand from the San Francisco advising that the coal cargo of the ship Stockbridge, from this port having weighed out 96 tons short, Captain Paynter set to work to discover what had become of the…

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