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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1862

6 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Appalling Colliery Accident. Death of Two Hundred and Fifteen Persons. (From the Home News.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 March 1862 · page 3

WHILE all cheerful English households have been adding to their cheerfulness by heaping up the fires that make a pleasant contrast to the cold outside, a terrible tragedy has…

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The Lachlan Gold-fields

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 8 April 1862 · page 3

THE escort takes down 8367 ozs. 5 dwts, 6 grs, in gold and £500 in cash, leaving in the camp 3500 ozs. gold and £2000 cash. Of this quantity, 1000 ozs. were left over from…

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The Lachlan Gold-fields. Monday morning

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 15 April 1862 · page 2

The escort takes 8702 ounces of gold, and £3376 cash. All the gold and money deposited at the camp is taken by this escort. Our next returns will show the produce…

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Strike of the A. A. Company's Miners. (From the Herald.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 6 May 1862 · page 3

APRIL 26.—I forwarded you a telegram last, evening, announcing that the miners employed by the A. A. Company have brought up their tools. The majority had an…

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Original Correspondence. Our columns are open to all writers who refrain from the use of virulent language or personalities; but we are not responsible for opinions expresed. Gold Field on the Richmond. to the Editor of the Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 20 May 1862 · page 3

SIR,—Having seen a notice of the "New Gold-field' on the Richmond River, in your journal of the 6th instant, extracted from the HERALD, I have taken the liberty of claiming a corner in your next issue…

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Gold Escort and Mail Robbery. Orange Tuesday, 5 p.m

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 June 1862 · page 2

BETWEEN four and five o'clock, on Saturday evening, the Escort from the Lachlan arrived at a creek near Mr. Clements', forty-five miles from Orange, when they saw two…

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