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

Mining & the mines, 1867

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Currawong Copper-mine. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 26 June 1867 · page 3

SIR,—In n report of the above mine published in your Saturday's issue, I preceive the lode is 12 inches instead of 12 feet. As this mistake may cause some misapprehension in the minds of some of…

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Emu Creek Gold-field. Court of Petty Sessions. -- JUNE 17. Before the Police Magistrate

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 26 June 1867 · page 2

STEALING FROM THE PERSON. -- James Cameron was charged with stealing from the person of Thomas McKenzie a silver lever watch, of the value of St., on the night of the 16th…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Saturday 29 June 1867 · page 2

JUNE 21. -- Three men, determined upon having a joke, frightened a good many out of their wits last Sunday evening. From the particulars that have reached me three boys, were near the company's…

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Emu Greek Gold-field. Court of Petty Se[?]sions. -- June 21. Before the Police Magistrate

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 3 July 1867 · page 2

OBSTRUCTING THE POLICE. -- A man named Green, on bail, was charged with having obstructed the police in the execution of their duty. The evidence not being sufficient the defendant was discharged…

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Emu Creek Gold-field. Court of Petty Sessions. -- June 26. Before the Police Magistrate

The Yass Courier · Saturday 6 July 1867 · page 2

THE STICKING-UP OF KELLY'S STORE. -- Charles Alfred Ramsay alias Billy Watkins and John James Grainger, for being accessories to the robbery of Kelly's store at the Ono Mile Gully on the 7th…

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Emu Creek Gold-field. Court of Petty SESSIONS.--July 2. Before the Police Magistrate

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 10 July 1867 · page 2

THE STICKING-UP OF KELLY'S STORE.-- The two men Ramsay and Grainger were brought up for final examination. His worship read the evidence of the witnesses…

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Fearful Scene in a Cornish Mine

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 13 July 1867 · page 7

A SAD accident occurred in North Levant Mine, St Just, on Monday. Two miners were stopping in the seventy-fathom level, going east, and knew that they approached…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 17 July 1867 · page 2

JULY 10.--The weather just now is clear and frosty. The Seven Mile is turning out golden. Another hole besides the prospectors' has been bottomed and…

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Blakney's Creek As a Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 24 July 1867 · page 2

AN intelligent correspondent supplies us with the following facts and observations with regard to this locality: -- Having myself been a digger continuously on…

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Emu Creek Gold-field. Court of Petty Sessions. Before the Police Magistrate

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 24 July 1867 · page 2

MONDAY, JULY 13. -- Eliza Coghlan, for being drunk, was fined 5s. or to be confined for twenty-four hours in the lockup. -- Jane Thompson, who had been taken in charge for protection, was…

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Emu Creek Gold-field. Court of Petty Sessions. -- JULY 24. Before the Police Magistrate

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 31 July 1867 · page 2

ASSAULT. -- Thomas Smith, charged with this offence, was discharged, the prosecutrix not appearing. EMBEZZLEMENT. -- A young man who was…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 7 August 1867 · page 2

AUGUST 1. -- The gold for the escort is made up, but no coach has arrived to take it down. It ought to have left here last Tuesday. When the coach from Bathurst arrives with the Sydney mail the escort…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 14 August 1867 · page 2

POLICE COURT.--On Monday, William and Susan Fowler were fined 5s. or twenty-four hours in the lockup, for being drunk and disorderly.--On Tuesday, Bridget Smith, alias Port Phillip Biddy…

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Blakney Creek As a Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Saturday 17 August 1867 · page 2

THE following communication from one of the prospecting party already mentioned, who had gone out to give Blakney Creek a trial as a gold-field, has been obligingly forwarded to us: --…

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Emu Creek Gold-field. Court of Pretty Sessions.--august 13. Before the Police Magistrate

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 21 August 1867 · page 2

I. Ormsby, charged with assaulting W. H. Townend. One witness. Samuel Asher corroborated the occurrence, which took place at the Great Eastern, on the night of the 20th July, where Ormsby used…

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Emu Greek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 28 August 1867 · page 2

AUGUST 22.--Last Sunday tho Rev. Mr. Pownall preached a sermon on "Infidelity" in the Princess Theatre to a very extensive audience. He took as his text: "I speak unto wise men: judge…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 4 September 1867 · page 2

September 2.—The escort left here on Tuesday with 3081 ozs. 16 dwts. 14 grs. gold, and 2501. in ensh from Grenfell, and 601 ozs. 1 dwt. 22 grs. gold from Forties…

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Better Than Gold

The Yass Courier · Saturday 7 September 1867 · page 4

Better than gold is the sweet reponse Of the sons of toil when their labours close : Better than gold is the poor man's sleep. And tho balm that drops on his slumbers deep…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Saturday 14 September 1867 · page 2

COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS. -- SEPTEMBER 7. Before the Police Magistrate. ASSAULT. -- Thomas Macalister was fined 5. for assaulting R. Armstrong…

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Emu Creek Gold-field. Mining Court.-- Wednesday, September 11. Before Messrs. F. Dalton. P.M, J. B. Wood, and G. O'M. Clarke

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 18 September 1867 · page 2

Edward Miller, appellant, and Frederick Fair- brother, respondent. This was an appeal from a decision made on the 10th July last. The appellant complained that the respondent had taken…

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