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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1858

135 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 4 of 7

Carcoar. Hahs. V. Snowden—stealing Turreys. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 23 June 1858 · page 3

SIR—A most partial and inaccurate report of the above case appears in your columns to to-day, and were it not for the atrictures contained in your leader, and the improper motives attributed…

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Original Correspondence. We do not identify ourselves with the opinions of our Correspondents. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 23 June 1858 · page 3

SIR—In your leader of Saturday, headed, "Register! Register!! Register !!! "you observe (referring to the manner the Electoral Rolls are taken), " The collectors being necos…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 26 June 1858 · page 3

SIR.—I am anxious to call your attention to a case to the most [?] inhumanity which in an experience of colonial life of very considerable duration I have never seen equalled…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 26 June 1858 · page 3

SIR.—There are but very few of your readers who will be surprised to learn that the names of those two great statesmen, Mr. Lse and Mr. Suttor, are to be found on the division list of…

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Original Correspondence. We do not identity ourselves with the opinions of our Correspondents. Are the Upper Chambers in Our Parliament Necessary—and If They Are, on What Principle Should They Be Established? To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 26 June 1858 · page 3

SIR.—I think thoro are fow people nowadays but will readily admit that the experience which we have had of the action of the Upper Chambers in our Australian Parliaments does not…

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Discovery of Gold on Vancouver's Island

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 June 1858 · page 2

By the arrival at this port, yesterday of the schooner Wild Pigeon Captain Jones, we hare been put in possession of late and highly interesting intelligence from the gold-fields of the…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 June 1858 · page 3

SIR,—In my last communication I stated that the report of the case Habu v. Snowden which appeared in your columns of the 19th inst., was partial and incorrect. This has drawn forth a…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 June 1858 · page 3

SIR—Now that the Chinese Question is creating more than an ordinary interest, when a "Tartar arrives"—a "Mongolian mixture," and all that sort of thing, are as…

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Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Joursal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 June 1858 · page 3

SIR,—You will much oblige if you will permit me through an early impression of your journal. to say to the public of Bathurst, and to the friends and members of the School of Arts in particular,…

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To the [?] of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 July 1858 · page 3

Sri,—In a paragraph in jour publication of last Wednesday, you intimate that I had consented to deliver a course of lectures to the Members of the Bathurst School of Arts at a…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 July 1858 · page 3

Sir,—In your last Saturday issue appeared what is termed a protest against my conduct as chairman at a public meeting, held for taking into consideration the conduct of two of our…

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To the Editor of Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 July 1858 · page 3

SIR-Perceiving in your issue of Saturday the 3rd inst., a letter signed Roxburgh, charging Mr. Richard Colbran with falsehood in reference to a statement of his respecting the part Mr…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and 'Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 July 1858 · page 3

SIR—In your copy or a paper which I sent to you for insertion, namely—What are the duties which a representatives owes to his constituents make me say in one portion of the…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 July 1858 · page 2

SIR—Your contributor on the Chinese Question remarks, that I did not vote at all, consequently that I am indifferent about the question. Having been in my place in the House…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 July 1858 · page 3

Sir,—Having observed a paragraph in your piper in the effect that "several cases of mortality among the newly arrival chinese, on the Lower Turon have taken place," and that the…

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Original Correspondence. We do not identify ourselves with the opinions of our Correspondents. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free and Mining Journal. '

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 July 1858 · page 2

SIR—Those who study tho history of the human family will discover that man is a creature of extremes. It ia particularly observable in subjects of great importance, whether…

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Original Correspondent. To the Editor of the Bathurst Fret Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 July 1858 · page 2

DBAR SIR, — An advertisement appeares our issue of the 10th inst, in reference to our Agricultural Association , which must have sound its war into your appear without…

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The Western Gold Fields

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 July 1858 · page 2

SELDOM does a number of this journal go forth to the world that we are not called upon to announce the discovery in this neighbourhood of some new gold-field…

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Original Correspondence. We do not identify ourselves with the opinions of our Correspondents. the Cabbage Blight. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 July 1858 · page 2

SIR—Having read a paragraph in your last issue, referring to the failure of the experiment recommended by the Revd. Father Bleasdile for the cure of the blight in cabbages, I am…

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The Wentworth Gold Mines

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 21 July 1858 · page 2

Having recently returned from a trip to the westward I am induced to pen a few words as to the altered state of the Wentworth Gold Mines. Some six months since it presented…

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