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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
1,038 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 48 of 52
WHEN the end of the year 1880 came the coal trade of Newcastle was so slack that the Wallsend Colliery decided to reduce the selling price to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT is difficult to arrive at any conclusion as to the intentions of New Lambton Company. It has been denied that operations are suspended at the colliery for a time, and asserted…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE monthly meeting of the West Wallsend miners was held in Sharp's Hall on Friday last. The principal business was to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FOR some time past the financing of private enterprises in South Africa has been a matter of almost universal importance. The excitement connected…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE committee consisting of the Mayors of the district and the members of the Merchants' Association appointed by the recent municipal conference hold at Plattsburg to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday.—Considerable excitement prevails in the London Stock Exchange owing to eight brokers having defaulted in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SPECIAL meeting of the Wallsend Miners' Lodge was held on Monday evening in the Wallend School of Arts, Mr. W. Wills in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE well-known geologist, the Rev. Father Curran, has been interviewed with regard to the working of the coal seams under Sydney. He stated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE complications over the Richmond Vale Estate, at Maitland, which have formed the subject of several actions at law in Victoria, have been further…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE deputation appointed by the municipal conference to interview the colliery propristors and endeavour to bring them together commenced their duties yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE salt water struck in the bore at Hampton Plains was pumped from last Monday to Saturday without stopping, end 38,000 gallons per diem has been taken out without…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Speaker took the chair at 4.30 p.m., and announced the Vice-regal assent to the Newcastle Pasturage Reserve Acts Amendment Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MAN named Fitzpatrick has confessed to the directors of the Angipenn Treasure goldmine that one of the prospectors named Rogers sailed the mine. He states that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Lake View crushing for the past two weeks gives a return of 463oz of gold from 151 tons of stone, or exactly 3oz to the ton. Mr. Shand has secured for flotation in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE year 1883 was a good one so far as the coal trade was concerned, and on the whole work went on smoothly and constantly. In February Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →J.H.B., WICKHAM.— (1) The water difficulty is not settled at Coolgardie or Kalgoorlie. It is reported that a good flow of salt water has been…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →As a result of a move on the part of several of the Sea pit miners during the past week to form a lodge, a meeting was convened and held on Saturday morning, at which a very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE coal trade of Newcastle continued to prosper throughout 1884, and the work of floating new companies proceeded with increased vigour…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE highly satisfactory manner in which, amid fierce competition for trade and employment, the coal trade in many districts of the old country is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SPECIAL meeting was held in the hall of the Wallsend School of Arts, Messrs. J. Curley, general secretary, R. Sleath, and D. Watkins, Ms.P., were…
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