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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1864

12 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

The Burrangong Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 20 January 1864 · page 4

THIS gold-field contains a larger area of auriferous ground than, perhaps, any other in the colony. The rushes have already extended to a distance of sixteen miles north of Young, and of…

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Local & General Intelligence. the Gundagai Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Saturday 2 April 1864 · page 2

MARCH 30TH.--Although little has been said, and less written, about the new gold-field at Gundagai, there cannot be the remotest doubt but that it is destined to become one of the most auriferous…

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Gundagai Gold-field. To the Editor of the Herald and Chronicle

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 16 April 1864 · page 5

SIR,—Would you permit me, through your columns, to give a word of caution to parties who may think of leaving their homes to come to this gold-field. I think the correspondent of the Yass Courier ought…

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Local & General Intelligence Gundagai Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 20 April 1864 · page 2

APRIL 18. -- Gundagai has for several years past been not only exceedingly quiet, but almost destitute of anything like commercial excitement or bustle. Within the last three months, however, a…

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Gold Found Fourteen Miles From the Mongatapu

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 April 1864 · page 3

For a day or two past a report has been current that auriferous ground has been discovered within a short distance of Nelson, and last evening a gentleman, returned from…

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The New Zealand Gold-fields. Dunedin, April 30

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 21 May 1864 · page 3

NEITHER the Buller nor the Coromandel diggings excited, when first reported upon, half the amount of interest which is now taken in the alleged discovery of a payable…

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The Wentworth Gold-fields

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 4 June 1864 · page 4

HAVE this day (May 27) visited these gold-fields and I am much pleased with the prospect. It is [?]uite evident to me that the Wentworth, at the present moment, is the most prosperous gold-field in…

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Local & General Intelligence a Visit to the Gundagai Goldfield

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 8 June 1864 · page 2

As most of our renders are aware, the township of Gundagai is situated on the north and south sides of the Murrumbidgee River, on the line of the Great Southern Road,and the fatal effect of the…

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A Visit to the Gundagai Gold-field

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 11 June 1864 · page 2

As most of our readers are aware, the township of Gundagai is situated on the north and south sides of the Murrambidgee River, on the line of the great southern road, and the…

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The Gold Escort

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 28 September 1864 · page 2

THE GOLD ESCORT:—The escort leaving for Sydney to-day will take down from Goulburn 67 ozs. 6 [?]. 4 grs. of gold. SEIZURE OF GOODS BY VICTORIA.—The war…

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Gold at Boree, Near Wagga Wagga

The Yass Courier · Saturday 22 October 1864 · page 3

A GENTLEMAN, writing from Wagga Wagga on the 14th instant, says: -- "There has been groat opposition here to the so-called Boree "shicer," and a few of the old stagers made up their minds they…

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To the Gold-fields South.—a New Song. Air—the Minstrel Boy

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 28 December 1864 · page 4

To the Gold-fields South D—lgl—sh has gone; At the long-bow great they'll find him ! With tongue like steam-whistle, shrill and long, And his broken rail slung behind him…

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