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Mining & the mines, 1890

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Mining

Evening News · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 2
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The manager of the Baker's Creek Gold-mining Co. reported by telegram: 63 tons stone crashed for a return of gold 120oz 13dwt. Broken HILL., Wednesday.—Mr. Warren the…

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Relief for Miners' Widows

The Australian Star · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--An offer was made by the A. A. Co. in November last for the relief of the widows and orphans of the men killed in the Hamilton pit disaster. It…

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The Barrier Mines. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 7

BROKENVILL, Thursday.--A party has just returned from the Rutland marble Hux property with the information that the lode, consisting of good marble admirably suitable for fluxing…

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Opening of the Young Wallsend Colliery. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 5

NEWCASTLE Monday.--The official opening of the Young Wallsend Coal Company's colliery, near Teralba, 11½ miles from Newcastle, took place to-day. A large number of…

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The Colliery Disaster. Rescue Work Abandoned. LONDON, March 19

The Australian Star · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 5

The work of searching for the miners who were entombed in the Morfa colliery, Glamorganshire, and who are still missing, has how been abandoned, all chance of…

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Labor Movement. End of the Miners' Strike

Evening News · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 4

LONDON, March 20.—It is stated that the strike of the coalminers has come to an end, the coalowners having yielded the terms of the men in an amended form…

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The Miners' Demonstration. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 8

At a meeting of the miners of Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery, last night, attention was called to the neglect of the Miners' General Committee of Management in not having made arrangements for the…

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Victorian Brown Coal. Report on Experiments and Tests. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Premier has received the report from the Government geologist and the Government analyst upon some recent tests of Gippsland brown coal…

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Mining at Castle Rag. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 7

Sir,--I have noticed in recent issues or your valuable journal letters adversely commenting upon the merits of this field. The first letter is headed the "Intricacies of Mining," by J…

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Trades and Labor Council. Car and Coachbuilders v. Carpenters and Joiners. Wharf Laborers' Difficulty. Coalcliff Miners' Strike

The Australian Star · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 8

THE usual weekly meeting of the Trades and Labor Council was held in the Trades Hall last evening, the president, Mr. P. J. Brennan, in the chair. There were…

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Yesterday's Cables. The Labor Movement. Expected Failure of Gas Supply. Stoppage of Works. Dear Coal in London

Evening News · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 6

LONDON, March 19.—The colliers' strike is expected to benefit the Durham and Northumberland colliers. Many of the Liverpool strikers are resuming work. No…

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The Labor Struggle. Threatened Engineers' Strike. Saturday Half Holiday Demanded. Concession to the Miners. End of the Strike. LONDON, March 20

The Australian Star · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 6

The engineers employed at the various collieries and ironworks on the banks of the rivers Tyne and Wear, in the counties of Northumberland and Durham, are stubborn…

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Great Strike of Coal Miners

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 664

We learn by cable from our London correspondent that an immense strike of coal miners has occurred. The colliery proprietors having failed to reply to terms proposed by the Miners'…

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The Bright Smile Gold- Mining Co

The Australian Star · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 2

THE prospectus of the Bright Smile Gold- mining Co., being formed to work the Kimberly claim on the Thames goldfields, New Zealand, is published. The syndicate holds…

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Gold-mining in New Zealand. London, March 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 11

The scheme for re-forming the Glenrock Gold-mining Company with a capital of £315,000, for the purpose of absorbing the Premier Gold-mining Company, New…

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The Welsh Colliery Disaster

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 13

LONDON, March 13.—The fire in the Morfa Colliery, Cardiff, has now been extinguished. Eighty-seven lives were lost by the explosion…

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The Glenrock Mine

Evening News · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 4

LONDON, March 20.—The scheme for reforming the Glenrock Gold-mining Company, with, a capital of £315,000, for the purpose of absorbing the Premier…

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The Coalcliff Miners

Evening News · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 5

In connection with the offer made to the miners by the directors of the Coalcliff Co., Mr. T. J. Houghton on Friday received the following letter from. J. B. Nicholson, miners' secretary:…

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Mining

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 20

PEAK HILL.—The late rains have improved matters in this district, enabling alluvial miners to do a good deal of washing. We learn that on the gully M'Donald and party are still on good…

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