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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1895

1,038 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 45 of 52

Parliament. Wednesday, 23Rd October. Legislative Assembly. Outside Work by Civil Servants. Restriction of Coloured Labour. Ventilation of Coal Mines. Federation. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 October 1895 · page 5

THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. GOULD, in reply to Mr. AFFLECK, said that some hotelkeepers had been…

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Parliament. Thursday, 24Th October. Legislative Assembly. Royalties on Alienated Coal Lands. Electoral Law Amendment Bill. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 5

THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. REID, is reply to Mr. GORMLY, said that the question of the transfer of the…

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Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1895 · page 12

THIS district is now passing through what may be termed another crisis in the coal trade. As anticipated, the further reduction of 4d per ton…

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The Mining Situation. Miners' Delegate Meeting. All Further Reductions to be Resisted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1895 · page 5

A SPECIAL meeting of the delegates from the various lodges in the Miners' Association was held in the Trades Hall yesterday, for the purpose of taking into consideration the…

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Summons Division. Larceny of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1895 · page 2

Thomas Clarke, 16 years of age, George Williams, 12 years, and Richard Williams, 14 years, were proceeded against by Senior constable Mears, charged with larceny of…

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The Crisis in the Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 October 1895 · page 4

THE local coal trade, bad though its condition has been for a long time past, is now approaching an acute and critical stage. Both employers…

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The Mining Situation. a Conference of Citizens

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1895 · page 5

IN the Chamber of Commerce room, Scott-street, last night, a conference took place between a large number of the business men of the city and the members of Parliament for…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Monday. Sale of a Mining Property

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1895 · page 5

The directors of the Rose and Shamrock Company, Kalgoorlie, have received an offer to purchase the mine for £35,000, and the shareholders have empowered them to accept…

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The Westralian Goldfields. Exodus from Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1895 · page 5

FOR the past 18 months men have been leaving this district for the West Australian goldfields at a rate estimated at between 20 and 40 a week, but it was not until last night…

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The Victorian Mining Industry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 October 1895 · page 6

THE attraction of the Western Australian goldfields are (writes the Melbourne Argus) certainly not increasing. Happily the same cannot be…

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The Coal Trade an Important Opinion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 October 1895 · page 7

MR. W. A. HUTCHINSON, who, as chairman of the board of directors of the Hetton Colliery Company, is largely interested in mining in this…

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Parliament. Tuesday, 29Th October. Legislative Assembly. Accident to the Speaker. Persons Engaged in Coal-mining. The Rofe case. Public Service Bill. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 October 1895 · page 5

THE House met at 4 30 p m, when the Clerk (Mr. F. W. Webb) read a letter from the Speaker, announcing that be had met with an accident, having dislocated his left elbow…

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The Mining Situation. Withdrawal of the Cardiff Reduction

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 October 1895 · page 5

THE 14 days' notice given to the Cardiff Miners' of a reduction in the hewing rate to 2s 2d per ton expired yesterday, and in accordance with the recommendation of the…

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Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company. Half-yearly Meeting. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 October 1895 · page 5

THE half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Co, Limited, was held at the Chamber of Commerce to-day. There was a large attendance…

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The Victorian Coal Industry. Aggregate Meeting of Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 October 1895 · page 7

AN aggregate meeting of miners was held at Korumburra, in Victoria, on Monday, when there were between 400 and 500 miners from the various…

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Miners' Risks. Accident at Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 October 1895 · page 5

AN accident occurred yesterday morning in the Wallsend Colliery, whereby a miner named William Dunlop sustained serious injuries to the left side of his chest and a…

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Sydney Harbour Collieries. Appeal to the Land Court Dismissed. An Important Decision. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 October 1895 · page 3

THE Land Appeal Court to-day delivered its reserved judgment in the matter of the Sydney Harbour Colliery Company. In this matter the…

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The Transvaal Goldfields. a Millionaire's Narrow Escape. Attempt to Jump His Claims

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 October 1895 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.—Mr. J. B. Robinson, a well-known mining investor in the Transvaal, who holds a great number of claims on the Rand…

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The Sydney Harbour Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 November 1895 · page 4

THE result of the appeal of the Sydney Collieries Company against the decision of the Metropolitan Land Board upon its application for a lease of an…

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New Lambton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 November 1895 · page 5

Yesterday had been fixed for drawing the cavils at the New Lambton Colliery, but when the men turned up for that purpose they were informed by Mr. J. Thomas,…

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