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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 6 of 7

To the Editor of the Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 September 1858 · page 3

"Every vice sits III upon man, bat no vice worse then pride." Vicar Gilpin. Sir,—I perceive by the Times of the 4th inst. that the " Traveller has again desconded. I…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 September 1858 · page 3

Sir,—I should feel glad if Mr. Mullins McGirr would straightway explain, as he should have dona at the onset, how, in hit opinion, I have made overtures to ,the friends…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 September 1858 · page 3

SIR,—While bearing cheerful testimony to the general accuracy of your information on such matters, I am anxious to contradict a paragraph which appeared in your issue of the 4th…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 September 1858 · page 3

SIR,—I cannot comply with Mr. McCann's wish of stating my own opinion of the manner in which that gentleman has tried to obtain the attendance of Catholic Children at the…

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Original Correspondents. We do not [?] ourselves with the spin[?] or our correspondents. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Prees and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 September 1858 · page 3

Sir—With reference to a communication which appeared in the Times to-day respecting a charged of violent entry at midnight into the Post office at Wellington, with one of the…

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

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 September 1858 · page 3

Sir,—My attention has just been called to Mr. Trowren's letter in your paperanent Pound-keepers generally, and the one at Peel in particular, whose business it is only, to disprove…

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The Electoral Bill. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 20 September 1858 · page 3

Sir,—There scorns to be a pretty general impression Amongst all classes that the Electoral Bill is doomed to be either thrown out on the second reading or otherwise so mutilated in its…

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WELLINGTON. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. "The Other Party."

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 20 September 1858 · page 3

SIR.—Will you do me the favor to correct a typographical error which appears in the last word of my letter of Wednesday's issue. "If you refer to the manuscript letter, you will see…

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Original Correspondents. We do not identify [?] with the [?] of our Correspondents. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 20 September 1858 · page 3

SIR.—Noticing a letter in your issue of the 5th inst, signed Veritas" in which the write states that one hundred and adventy five head of cattle the property of mr. McGennis were no…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press one Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 September 1858 · page 3

"Upon, what most doth this our Ceaser feed, That he is grown be great?"-Shaksper. SIR.—It is related that " Harmonides, a flute player at the Olympic games, in order to…

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Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and [?] Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 September 1858 · page 3

SIR.—In your issue of Saturday last a letter was published signed T.A. Cummings, upon which with your permission, I should like to make a few observance…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 October 1858 · page 3

Dear Sir.—I perceive that the Orange Correspondent of the Bathurst Times has done me a great injustice in his report of my remarks after the Temperance Lecture, on the evening…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 October 1858 · page 3

SIR.—Mr. Trewren in his letter in Saturday's Free Press is exceedingly ind[?] that his voracity should be called in question, and his wit unappreciated. He hesitates not to public…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 October 1858 · page 3

[Dear Sir,—The following conversation was overheard not far from Orange, and I send it (as completely as I can recall it to my memory), for publication, hoping it will [?] the…

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Original Correspondent. We do not [?] ourselves with the opinions of our Correspondents. To the Editor of te Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 October 1858 · page 3

SIR.—Observing in your last Saturday's issue an account of a Sea Monitor now exhibiting in Bathurst, from the description given by the paper, I am led to believe that it is the…

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The Fitzroy Gold Field

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 October 1858 · page 2

The intelligence which has reached the metropolis by the City of Sydney, is precisely of the nature which we anticipated from the commencement. The Sydney Morning Herald, in its…

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The Cause of a Gold Fever in New South Wales

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 October 1858 · page 4

Why has the report of the discovery of a fresh gold-field at Port Curtis thrown our Sydney neighbours into such a violent paroxysm of the gold fever? This was…

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To the Editor of Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 October 1858 · page 3

Dear Sir,—The Orange Correspondent of the Bathurst Times owes the a great spite or he has an antipathy against the Temperance Cause which he wishes to make public, and…

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Original Correspondence. Payment of Representatives. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 October 1858 · page 2

SIR,—As this it a question upon which opinions arc very much divied and (in reference to the great body of the people) Say it is a question upon which public opinion is but in differently formed, a few remarks on the question may not be decomed out of play by you or the generality of your readers. I will…

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The Fitz Roy Gold-field

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 October 1858 · page 3

The following letter addressed to the Registrar-General by Mr. Commissioner Wiseman will be read with interest:—Mount Athelstan, September 29th, 1858…

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