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

Mining & the mines, 1875

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Southern Gold-fields Election

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 6 January 1875 · page 2

ON Saturday evening Mr. H. Copeland, one of the candidates for the representation of this electorate, addressed, -a meeting at Minter’s Criterion Hotel. The meeting was well attended,…

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Southern Gold-fields’ Election. Mr. Baker’s Meeting

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 9 January 1875 · page 2

ON Thursday evening last, Mr. E. A. Baker a dressed a public meeting at Minter’s Criterion Hotel. There was a good attendance and the meeting was very orderly…

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Peelwood Copper Mines. (From our Correspondent.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1875 · page 2

THE weather is intensely hot, the thermometer being 100 in the shade; and the smoke from the bush fires lies all over the place like a great fog. Occasionally the sky is overcast with clouds, and…

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A Rumpus Over a Selection. Grenfell Police Court. (From the Mining Record.) Monday, January 25th, 1875. (Before R. M. Vaughn, Esq., J.p.) Assault

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 3 February 1875 · page 2

John Read, John Murphy, and Richard Simmons were brought up in custody of. Sergeant charged with committing a violent assault, on the evening of the 23rd instant. at Mount…

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Peelwood Copper Mines. (From our Correspondent.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1875 · page 3

SINCE my last we have been visited with, most refreshing showers: and the weather, upon the whole, is much cooler. The farmers and graziers are looking forward with hopes of yet having a…

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Rich Find of Gold

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 17 March 1875 · page 4

A reef of quartz uncommonly rich in gold has been recently struck (reports the Orange Advocate) near Ophir, about a hundred yards from the spot…

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Peak Downs Copper-mines

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 7

THE special correspondent of the Evening News, after visiting the above mines, writes:— The Peak Downs Copper-mine is…

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Palmer River Gold-fields

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 7 April 1875 · page 4

THE Cooktown Herald of March 13th says:—There was a rumour of a now rush a few days ago, but having no tangible evidence to speak authoritatively of it, we refrained from…

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Chinese Life on the Victorian Gold-fields

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 24 April 1875 · page 7

New South Wales, fortunately for its European population, has been but slightly invaded by the Mongolian hordes, attracted to Australia by the gold discoveries…

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[?]Collieries and Ironworks in China

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 19 May 1875 · page 4

MR. HENDERSON, who has passed about thirty years in China, and who is now in England, has been commissioned by the mandarins in charge of the arsenals of…

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AMUSING. (From On Babies and Ladders,) on Coal

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 19 May 1875 · page 4

DID you ever hear that Coal is a hard substance found in mines, cellars, beefsteaks, and Wales ? It is dark in colour like niggers or old harness, but it burns better than…

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Fatal Colliery Explosion

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 7 July 1875 · page 4

FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—A terrible explosion occurred on April 30, at the Bunker's Hill Colliery, North Staffordshire, belonging to Messrs. Williams, Rigby, and…

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Peelwood Copper Mines. (From our Correspondent.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 July 1875 · page 2

ON Monday, the 19th instant, the M.U. Independent Order of Oddfellows, of the Loyal Star of Peelwood Lodge, held their anniversary dinner in the Oddfellows’ Hall at 6.30 p.m. To say that…

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Gold at Warri

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 August 1875 · page 4

GOLD AT WARRI.—Sinco the company of Sydney coputaliate, who during the miring manis were golog to do such great ching in gold-waahing at Warri, sudnely atandoned thole gront enterprice, after…

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The New Mining Bill. Important Changes Proposed. a Court of Mines and a Judge to Be Appointed

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 2

THE new Mining Bill which has been framed by the Minister for Mines, and which will probably be laid upon the table of the House in the course of a few days, in order to admit of full…

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Discovery of Gold Near Parkes

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 2

THE following information, which is contained in correspondence from the Warden at Parkes to the Mining Department in Sydney, confirms the truth of the recent reported discovery of…

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The First Discovery of Gold in New South Wales

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 3

THE question of who was the first discoverer of gold in New South Wales, although often debated, has never, until recently, received a satisfactory solution, and never, we believe,…

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The Palmer River Goldfields

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 1 September 1875 · page 2

In a late issue we (Cooktown Herald of August 7th intimated that Mr. Love, the manager of she palmer Quarts Crashing Company, who arrived lately amongst us…

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Crown Lands Regulations. (Continued.) Conditional Purchase Is Gold-fields. Applications

The Yass Courier · Friday 3 September 1875 · page 4

35. Applications for the conditional purchase of unimproved lands within proclaimed gold-fields, and not being within arous excepted by special proclamation nor occupied for gold-mining…

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Currawang Copper Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 23 September 1875 · page 4

THE Phoenix copper-mine having changed hands, and in consequence a total change having taken place in the management, it was found with regret that Mr. Williams, who for the last two years had…

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