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

Mining & the mines, 1879

47 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 3

Goldfields at Barrington

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 May 1879 · page 10

NOTHING succeeds like success, and Gill, Irvine, and party’s Mountain Maid puts everything in these parts in the shade so far; but there are a few other claims around. The…

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The Boorook Silver-mines

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 7 May 1879 · page 4

Mr. Lamont Young (associate R.S.M.), acting under instructions from the department of mines, has visited the Boorook silver-mines,…

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Re-arrest of Weiberg, the Avoca Gold Robber

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 27 May 1879 · page 4

THE intelligence that the notorious robber of the bullion-room of the P. and O. Company's steamship Avoca had been recaptured was received with great incredulity yesterday…

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MINING If the Police Paddock

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 June 1879 · page 2

WEDNESDAY was the day for receiving applications for claims in the Police Paddock, and, accordingly, at an early hour the front of the Warden’s office presented quite a busy appearance. It had been…

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Mining in the Police Paddock

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 18 June 1879 · page 2

Is accordance with a telegram which we mentioned in our last as having been sent from the Department of Mines to Mr. Warden Robinson, to the effect that parties mining in the Police Paddock would be…

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The Case of Wieberg and the Gold Robbery

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 18 June 1879 · page 3

THE life which Martin Welhorg lived during the period which elapsed from the time of his escape from inspector Secretan and detectives Mahoney and Duncan until his ultimate…

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Mining in the Police Paddock

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 June 1879 · page 2

THE rush to this place is quietly subsiding, and bids fair to be, ere long, mere matter of history. On the fancy line there are twenty shafts filled up, and six claims at work, and of these latter there are only…

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Mining in the Police Paddock

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 25 June 1879 · page 2

THERE is nothing of any importance to chronicle with reference to the police paddock. The number of applications up to last evening amounted to forty-three, and of these twenty-two have knocked off…

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Select Poetry. the Cost of Coal

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 2 July 1879 · page 4

WHAT ! Gone! Is he really gone ? Shell I never behold him more ? Ne’er hear again his manly tread On the bricks of our cottage floor;…

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Mining in the Police Paddock

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 2 July 1879 · page 2

FIFTEEN partios, representing thirty men, arc all who are at present at work in the police paddock. Gray and party have cut out the lead on which they sunk, as far ns the line of demarcation at the…

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The Joadja Kerosene-mine

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 2

To any one interested in the industrial progress of this country, a visit to the Joadja kerosene-mine would prove highly interesting. The works are distant about seventeen or eighteen miles from the…

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Mining. the Police Paddock

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 2

THIS rush still affords work to about the same number of men, namely, thirty. Yesterday Wallace and party washed a few loads of dirt, which at a rough estimate looked to yield about ten or twelve penny,…

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Diseases in Sheep Acts Amendment Act of 1878. Stock Branch. Department of Mines, Sydney, 27th June, 1879

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 July 1879 · page 4

THE following regulations, made by his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, in accordance with the provisions of the abovenamed Act, and in lieu of…

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Hidden Gold

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 July 1879 · page 4

MATERIALS for an exciting novel might be found in the case of Orme v. Shipton, which was recently heard on appeal before the Lords Justices. The…

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The Gold Robbery Case

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 July 1879 · page 6

THE prosecution of Martin Weiberg, upon the charge of stealing 5000 sovereigns from the s.s. Avoca, and of Joseph Pearce for being an accessory after the fact, was brought to a…

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Mining in the Police Paddock

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 2 August 1879 · page 2

WHATEVER interest—excitement we cannot properly term it—attached at one time to the throwing open of the police paddock for mining purposes seems now to have died out., from the simple fact, perhaps,…

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Riots Among the Coal-miners

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 20 August 1879 · page 2

THE relations which have existed for some time paint among the coal-miners of the Hunter River district who favour the vend scheme, and those of them who are content to work independently of it, have been…

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Riots Among the Coal-miners

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 August 1879 · page 6

ON Monday morning miners, whose number has been variously estimated at from 1000 to 1500, went to the Old Lambton Colliery armed with firearms, sticks, and stones, for…

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Riots Among the Coal Miners. Newcastle

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 August 1879 · page 2

THE relations which have existed for some time past among the coal miners of the Hunter River district who favour the read scheme, and those of them who are content to…

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Biots Among the Coal-miners

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 6

OUR reporter, who went up to Newcastle with the military force on Monday night, found on arrival at Lambton that the disturbance had not been of so serious a character as it had been supposed in…

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