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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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THE Speaker took the chair at half past 4 o'clock. QUESTIONS. The COLONIAL SECRETARY, in answer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Speaker took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. QUESTIONS. The COLONIAL SECRETARY, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As an event has to be weighed by' its consequence, the discovery of coal at Newcastle in June, 1796, by the fishermen resulted in nothing being…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR SYDNEY SMITH, the Minister for Mines, is expected to arrive in Newcastle by the midday train from Sydney to-day. This evening, at the Masonic Hall, he will present…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE United States Alaskan territory lies to the west of the Klondyke, divided from it by the 140th W. meridian. Writing on the subject of the Goldfields of Alaska, Mr. O. H…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A CIRCULAR has been issued from the Northumberland (England) Miners' Association, giving the results of the voting on the resolutions adopted at the council meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. SYDNEY SMITH, the Minister for Mines, arrived in Newcastle yesterday by the mid-day train from Sydney, accompanied by Mr. J. Balnksby, M.L.C., and Messrs. Dick…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Merrie England from New Guinea brought two sick passengers named Benson and Urawford. The latter, who was unconscious, is a Victorian native. Sir William…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE order issued by the Home Secretary in December last upon the use of explosives in British mines has been revoked by an order dated June 4, to become operative un January…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE meeting of this class for practice took place in Simpson's hall on Thursday evening, and was well attended. Dr. Wm. Clarke, attended, and previous to commencing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE proposal to establish a permanent fund for, among other matters, the relief of the widows, children, and dependents of miners who have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE ceremony of unveiling the memorial gate posts erected at the entrance to a proposed park opposite the council chambers, Stockton, to perpetuate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT the invitation of the Minister for Mines a number of representatives of the mining industry assembled at the council chambers on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THERE is nothing new r[?]pecting Dudley Colliery other than that [?]e mine worked two days last week. The m[?]rs were at work yesterday and are emplo[?]d again to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It has been clearly proved by the Rev. W. B. Clarke (with whom the writer has had many interviews concerning Australian geology) that there…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The coal shipments from the dyke for the week ended at 6 a m. yesterday amounted to 48.859 tons as against 44,966 for the corresponding week of 1896, and showing an increase of 3891 tons in favour of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Geologically speaking, the delta of the Hunter by its coal deposits lying so near the surface and sinking so far down into the bowels of the earth, is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our Hunter River coal fields being hundreds of feet thick prove that very many thousands of years ago the lowest bed once formed a land…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE B.M.S. Moana, which left Sydney at 4 o'clock this afternoon for San Francisco, had on board 135 boxes, each of which contained 5000 sovereigns, representing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OWEN M'MANNUS, who returned from Wood-lark by the last trip of the Ivanhoe died to-day, age 34. He was a native of Rosscommon, Ireland, and was well known in West…
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