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Mining & the mines, 1879

1,141 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 58

The Coal Vend Question at Newcastle. [By Electric Telegraph.] Newcastle

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 August 1879 · page 3

There is great excitement in the district to-day. Shortly after 2 a.m. the Coonanbara arrived with 120 military aboard and 50 police, the artillery being under Captain Murray and police in charge…

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Latest Telegrams. Latest from the Coal Mines

Evening News · Thursday 21 August 1879 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—The Lambton pit worked to-day as usual. Tho short-working scheme comes into operation for the district next Monday. Three men belonging to Raspberry Gully, making in…

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Disturbances Among the Coal Miners. (From Our Special Reporter.) Lambton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 August 1879 · page 5

In consequence of reports by telegraph received in Sydney on Monday respecting serious disturbances at Lambton, it was determined by the Government to dispatch by special steamer a strong force composed of…

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All Quiet at the Mines

Evening News · Thursday 21 August 1879 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—All is quiet at the mines, and work is proceeding as before…

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The Coal Vend Question at Newcastle. Newcastle

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 August 1879 · page 3

The Lambton miners were at work all day, and also those at the other collieries in the district. The Anvil Creek miners are reported as locked- out. The special delegate meeting has decided…

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Coolangoolook Goldfield

Evening News · Thursday 21 August 1879 · page 2

BULADELAH, Wednesday.—Splendid prospects are being obtained at the Coolangoolook Mountain Maid Claim, and the stone is estimated to yield 56oz to the ton. The Wonder Reef looks…

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Disturbances Amongst the Coal Miners. (From Our Special Reporter.) Lambton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 August 1879 · page 6

Though the services of the military and the police sent from Sydney have not been required to quell any disturbance, their presence has had a good moral effect, and the expedition with which they were sent here…

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Latest Telegrams. The Newcastle Mining Difficulty

Evening News · Friday 22 August 1879 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Friday.—The miners' convention meets on Saturday for important business. There is no change in the aspect of affairs, and the work at the mines proceeds as before…

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Withdrawal of Gold From the Bank of England

Evening News · Friday 22 August 1879 · page 2

LODON, August 20.—There was a large withdrawal of gold for the United States from the Bank of England to-day.—REUTER…

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Withdrawal of Gold From the Bank of England. London, August 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 August 1879 · page 5

There was a large withdrawal of gold for the United States from the Bank of England to-day…

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Riots Amongst Coal Miners at Newcastle

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 9

MONDAY.— Since the adjourned aggregate meeting held by the miners on Thursday last, with the object of effecting an amicable arrangement with the Lambton men and getting them…

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Mines and Mining. Mining Items. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 23

A very rich lode of copper has been discovered within 30 miles of Terrara, and specimens already tested give as a result fully 75 per cent, of pure metal. The miners at Bald Hills are doing well. The claim…

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Coal-mining on the Hunter

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 304

The mining disputes in the Newcastle district have advanced a stage. For some time past it has been growing more and more probable as the months passed by that that…

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Gold-Mining in Queensland in 1878

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 312

The report of the Mines Department for last "year (says the Week) indicates that the industry especially under its care has to some extent shared in the general depression. The yield of gold in 1877 was 373,266 ounces. Last year it…

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Disturbances Amongst the Coal Miners. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 8

A SPECIAL meeting of minors was held on Friday, when the chairman stated that the meeting had been called through the vend manager sending in his roport, by which it appeared that to August 2 the…

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Disturbances Amongst the Coal Miners of the Hunter. Newcastle, August 18

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 310

The unsettled state of feeling amongst the miners that has prevailed in the district since the vend scheme first came into operation up to the present time has at length culminated in a scene of open disorder that any…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 4

Star of Peace G. M. Co. (Limited).—Mining manager's report:—"Hill End, 21st August. 755-feet level: Drive north from the shaft. "We areo now in 72 feet with this drive. The ground we have gone through has changed…

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The Coal Trade

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 8

There is at present an apparently irreconcilable difference between the masters restisting the vend and the association insisting on it. The miners assert that trade is so dull that the whole. district will suffer,…

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Conference of Miners' Delegates

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 9

LONDON, August 14.—An important conference of delegates, representing 200,000 miners, was held to-day, at Manchester, when it was resolved to adopt every means for the…

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Mining Items

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 312

Messrs, Mclhado and Curtis report the yield from the Band and Albion Consols Gold-mining Company for last week:—From quartz, 184oz.; from alluvial, 80 oz.: total, 264 oz…

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