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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1867

6 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Dreadful Colliery Explosion. Twenty-four Persons Killed. (From the Daily Telegraph, November 2nd.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1867 · page 4

AN explosion of a very deplorable character is reported fro Newcastle. About nine miles from that town there is a village named Chestes-le-street, and very near to the village is the penton Colliery, owned…

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Dreadful Colliery Explosion. Twenty-four Persons Killed. (From the Daily Telegraph, November 2nd.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1867 · page 4

AN explosion of a very deplorable character is reportcd from Newcastle. About nine miles from that town there is a village nemed Chestes-le-street, and very near to the village is the Ponton colliery, owned…

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Arrival of the English Mail. News to January 6Th. Dreadful Colliery Explosions—300 Killed—160 "Widows and 350 Orphans Left Destitute. the Tropical Department of the Crustal Palace Destroyed by Fire. Fenian Arrests—no Outbreak on the 1St January. (From the Herald.) Adelaide, Monday, 10 a.m

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1867 · page 3

THE mail steamer Alexandra, Cnptnln Brown, arrived off Gelneig, at 6 p.m. on the 10th, after a passage of 113 hours from the Sound. The dowaward trip was done in ninety-six hours. The Avoca arrived at the…

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Arrival of the English Mail, News to January 6Th. Dreadful Colliery Explosions—300 Killed—160 Widows and 350 Orphans Left Destitute. the Tropical Department of the Crrstal Palace Destroyed by Fire. Fenian Arrests—no Outbreak on the 1St January. (From the Herald.) Adelaide, Monday, 10 a.m

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1867 · page 3

THE mail steamer Alexandra, Captain Brown, arrived off Glenelg, at 6 p.m. on the 10th, after a passage of 113 hours from the Sound. The downward trip was done in ninety-six hours. The Av[?]a arrived at the…

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The Murder of the Rockhampton Gold Escort

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 26 November 1867 · page 2

THE Brisbane Courier of the 12th instant contains the following telegram from Rockhampton with reference to the murder of the troopers forming the escort from thence to Clermont:—…

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The Murder of the Rockhampton Gold Escort

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 26 November 1867 · page 2

THE Brisbane Courier of the 12th instant contains the following telegram from Rockhampton with reference to the murder of the troopers forming the escort from thence to Clermont…

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