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

Mining & the mines, 1877

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

Murder at the Hodgkinson Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 January 1877 · page 4

As the Criminal Sessions of the Northern Queensland Supreme Court, held on 10th December, before his Honor Mr. Instice Shephard, Ebenezer Gibson was indicted for having, on…

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Peelwood Copper-mines

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 11 April 1877 · page 4

NOT seeing any news from these mines for some time past, I now send you a slight account of the movements and goings on. Easter Monday was celebration by a cricket match,…

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A Coal-pit on Fire

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 18 April 1877 · page 4

A Most disastrous fire occurred at Messrs. Roscoe and Lord's Stonehill, Colliery, Worsley Road, Farnmouth, near Boston, on Jan. 23, by which seventeen lives were…

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Report of the Mines Department

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 7

BEFORE his retirement from office Mr. John Lucas had the satisfaction of prefixing his ministerial memorandom to the report of the department of mines for 1876 by Mr. Harrie…

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Crookwell and Where Gold Field

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 3

CROOKWELL AND WHEEO GOLD FIELD.—The following has been proclaimed a goldfield:—County of King, parishen of Crookwell, Wheeo, Winduella, and Grabben Gullen, The gold-fields on crown…

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Gold at Tirranna

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 June 1877 · page 4

For two or three weeks lately eight men have been fossicking at Tirranna on land the property of Mr. P. Dignam, situated not far from the church in a small creek and on its banks;…

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The Perils of the Gold Fields. How to Escape Them

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 26 June 1877 · page 4

IF all who leave the coast for the gold-fields could understand what they must encounter in the way of exposure, privation, and the diseases growing out of these causes, the first easier inquiry of each…

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Inundation of the Tynewydd Colliery

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 30 June 1877 · page 8

IN the middle of April all England was moved with trembling suspense for the lives of nine working miners who were imprisoned by an inundation in the Tynewydd colliery…

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Tuesday. Mining Appeal

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 10 November 1877 · page 2

George Wallace, appellant, and Thomas Smith, respondent. Mr. Scarvell for appellant. Mr. Cooper, instructed by Mr. Freestone, for respondent…

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Purchase of Land on Goldfields

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 November 1877 · page 4

GREAT complaints exist at the present time amongst the gold miners on account of the alienation of lands on goldfields. By the 8th section of the Crown Lands Alienation Act,…

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Peelwood Copper-mines

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 28 November 1877 · page 4

It is some time since I saw any report of these mines in your issue and I have jotted down a few items. Sad to say, the place is fast on the decline in place of advancing in a flourishing condition…

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Mining Telephone

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 December 1877 · page 3

Mr. C. Thureau F.G.S. has prepared plans of a mining telephone, which is to be tested in the Adventure and Advance Company's shaft,…

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Emu Creek, Tyagong. and Burr a N Gong Gold-fields

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 8 December 1877 · page 3

THE following report on the Emu Creek, Tyagong, and Burrangong Gold-fields, forwarded to the Department of Mines, has been handed to us (Herald) for publication ;…

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"Newcastle Herald & Miners' Advocate." August 28th, 1877. in the City

The Burrowa News · Saturday 29 December 1877 · page 3

I yesterday visited the Consulting Rooms of Professor Rosenthal at the Metropolitan Hotel, for the purpose of seeing and believing some of the…

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"Newcastle Herald & Miners' Advocate," September 8th, 1877. the Seeing Eye and Hearing Ear

The Burrowa News · Saturday 29 December 1877 · page 3

A few issues age we recorded some remarkable cures to eyes and ears effected by Professor Rosenthal, who is at present in this city, and yesterday [?]…

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