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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
1,038 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 44 of 52
A SPROIAL meeting of the Plattsburg Council was hold on Tuesday evening for the purpose of considering the present, aspect of the coal trade and the means of averting future…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the Assembly, after our report concluded last night, the House continued the consideration of the Public Service Bill in committee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE usual monthly meeting of the committee of management of the Wallsend Hospital was held on Wednesday evening. Present: Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Captain W. Wakeham, of the ship Lowther Castle, writing from Valparaiso, under date July 26, refers in a flattering manner to the way his cargo of coal and tallow was stowed at this port. He says, "I…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DURING the week the coal trade has been about up to the average of the last three months, and there is but little prospect of any improvement for…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A SPECIAL meeting of the Wallsend Miners' Lodge was held last night in the Wallsend School of Arts, to consider the delegate minutes. Mr. William Wills occupied the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MR. EDDEN has given notice in the Assembly to ask the Colonial Treasurer on Tuesday— (1) The names of the coal companies supplying the Railway Commissioners with coal?…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OUR Adamstown correspondent writes:—In mining centres the proposed reduction in the present starvation rates which miners are working under is being earnestly debated,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TINDALL's South has crushed 9 tons for 18oz, stone obtained from the shaft close to Tindall's boundary. The result is taken as proving that gold was lost in the last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE miners employed in the Cardiff Colliery have received 14 days' notice of a further reduction of 4d per ton in their hewing rates. Yesterday a deputation waited on the manager…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MOST of the gold discoveries have been accidental. In 1857 an Indian searching for his strayed donkeys found the Eldorado of Guiana which Sir Walter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Globe miners held a special meeting in Simpson's Hall on Monday evening, presided over by Mr. R. Wells. The delegate minute to allow the Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—The data which were recently forwarded to Mr. Gillies, the Agent-General, relative to the Victorian mines, are considered too…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE action of several collieries in following the lead of the proprietors of the Co-operative mine in further reducing the already low wages of the miners has most certainly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—On reading Mr. W. E. Abbott's letter in your issue of to-day I could not help thinking that he is one of those persons who are prejudiced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. M. C. Cowlishaw, writing to a [?] temporary with regard to the coal [?] says:—At the beginning of this year it [?] thought advisable to reduce the selling [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE miners employed in the Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery, hearing that there was a probability of a further reduction in the howing rates in consequence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the Legislative Council to-night Dr. Garran, in reply to Mr. Hoskins, said that the following fees for members and secretary of the Royal Commission on the working of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE state of the coal-mining industry in New South Wales is such as to cause grave concern to all engaged in it, and to the communities near which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A CRUSHING of nine tone of stone from Tindal's South has returned 18oz of gold. The stone came from the same lode as Tindal's, and within a few feet of Tindal's shaft…
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