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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1896

1,413 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 38 of 71

Burwood Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1896 · page 5

The Burwood Miners' Lodge met at 11.30 yesterday at Mrs. Love's Hotel, Adamstown, for the purpose of receiving strike pay. After the meeting was opened, a member…

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Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1896 · page 12

MATTERS are becoming unsettled in so far as the strike is concerned, the district being divided on the question of resuming work on the old terms…

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Sea Pit and Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1896 · page 5

The Globe miners held a special meeting yesterday in Simpson's Hall, when strike pay was distributed to each member to the amount of 6s…

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Wallsend Mining Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1896 · page 5

Work at the co-operative Colliery is steadily increasing, the average output at the present time being about 150 tons daily. At Mr. Sneddon's colliery there is a double…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. the Firing of Coal Cargoes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1896 · page 5

Mr. W. T . Dick. M.P. yesterday brought under the notice of M. Brunker the desirability of incorporating in the proposed Navigation Act Amendment Bill provision for…

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Mr. Watkins, M.p., on Reform of the Coal Mines Bill. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 June 1896 · page 8

SIR,—Your impression of the 5th instant brings the fact under notice that we have still got what are (by courtesy) termed, "Labour members" in the House, and that…

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New Lambton Colliery. The 16yd Bord Question

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 June 1896 · page 8

THE New Lambton minors held a special meeting at Mrs. Love's hotel; Adamstown, on Saturday night, for the purpose of considering a letter from Mr. Errington, the…

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The English Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 June 1896 · page 4

Mr. Thomas Rateliffe Ellis, secretary to the English Federated Coalowners, writing on the subject of the question at issue between the coalowners and the miners'…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Sunday. a Gold Reef Struck

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 June 1896 · page 5

A gold-bearing quartz reef has been struck at Darlimurla, on the road to Mirboo, in Gippsland, in the heart of the coal country. Assays give promising results…

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The Strike. Miners Anxious for Work. Awaiting the Proprietors' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 June 1896 · page 5

THE majority of the miners of the district now join in the general hope that something will eventuate at to-morrow's meeting of colliery proprietors by which the…

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The Attitude of the Miners' Leaders and Delegates. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 June 1896 · page 5

Sir,—Having read all the various correspondence of the strike of coal miners, I would sincerely ask those gentlemen a few questions. 1st. Is it not a fact that several…

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Correspondence. the New Coal Mines Bill. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 June 1896 · page 3

SIR,—From the beginning of the wretched wrangle over the Coal Mines Bill to the present, some 10 years have elapsed, and still the farcical struggle…

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The Gartlee Miners. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 June 1896 · page 5

Sir,—In justice to the Gartlee miners that are financial members of the association I beg to contradict a statement that I saw in the Newcastle Herald, as made by Mr. Hancock,…

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The Colliery Proprietors. a Meeting To-day. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 June 1896 · page 5

IT is understood that the colliery proprietors will meet to-morrow to consider the communication received by Mr. F. W. Binney from Mr. James Curley; but it is stated, as…

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Mining Laws Amendment Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 June 1896 · page 4

FOR many years past the conviction has been general that greater facilities should be given for prospecting for minerals on lands held by private…

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Two Cargoes of Southern Coal Wollongong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 June 1896 · page 5

Orders have been received here to load two more large sailing ships now in Sydney Harbour. They were to have been loaded at Newcastle, but owing to the strike the…

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Gold Mining in Sudest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 June 1896 · page 4

For a number of years past the islands adjacent to New Guinea have attracted the attention of gold-miners, and many hitherto unsuccessful attempts have been…

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The Mining Position

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 June 1896 · page 4

OWING to the reticence of the colliery proprietors with regard to the terms upon which they are prepared to recommence work at their pits the…

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Opinion in Mining Centres

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 June 1896 · page 5

In the mining centres (writes a suburban correspondent) the result of the meeting of the coal proprietors is the chief topic of conversation, but on account of the public…

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Parliament. Wednesday, June 17. Legislative Assembly. The Proposed Denman Reservoir. Factories Bill. Parkes Family Grant Bill. Coal Mines Regulation Bill. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 June 1896 · page 5

THE Speaker took the chair at 4.30 p m. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. YOUNG said he could not say until he received a report on the subject whether…

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