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

Mining & the mines, 1894

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Mining Discoveries

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1894 · page 3

BRAIDWOOD, Monday.—A well-[?]quipped party of six started to-day on a prospecting tour to Yadborough Creek, a tributary of the upper part of the Clyde River, near the Pigeon House, where the…

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Gold Find on the Clyde

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1894 · page 3

THE Under-Secretary for Mines has received the following telegram from Mr. George Maunsell, gold warden at Ulladulla:—"Just returned from the Clyde. Reports as to alluvial gold being found in…

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The John Jerger Gold-saving Machine. Statutory Declaration

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1894 · page 2

I. WILLIAM LINKGAR, of Harden, in the colony Now south Wales, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—That I place in the John Jergor Gold-saving Machine three penny weights of…

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Mining on Private Lands Bill.—Further Mutilation

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1894 · page 2

THE Legislative Council bestowed further consideration on Wednesday evening upon the Mining on Private Lands Bill, with the result that it was amended in such n way as to prove unpalatable to…

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The Coolgardie Goldfield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1894 · page 3

Perth, Sunday.—The latest telegram from Coolgardie, dated the 21st instant, states that crosscutting has been resumed at the 200ft. level in Bayley's Reward mine. They have now penetrated…

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Wyalong Goldfield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1894 · page 2

LITHGOW, Wednesday.—One of the miners who left here a short time back for Wyalong returned this morning. Ho gives a very unfavourable account of the field, especially for working men,…

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The Gold Mania. Wyalong

The Yass Courier · Friday 30 March 1894 · page 3

"THE reports about Wyalong have been greatly exaggerated,'" a "Daily Telegraph" reporter was told on Monday by a traveller who has recently visited the field, and has a wide experience of…

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The Eclipse Gold Saving Machine. Favourable Notice

Goulburn Herald · Friday 30 March 1894 · page 5

AT the Royal Agricultural Society's Show on Tuesday, Sir George Dibbs, together with Messrs. J. Torpy and J. E. Tonkin, Ms.L.A., witnessed a trial of Messrs. R. T. Ball and…

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Mining at Kiandra and Cowra Creek. the Prospecting Vote

Goulburn Herald · Friday 30 March 1894 · page 3

MR. HARRIE WOOD, the Under-Secretary for Mines, has returned to Sydney from a visit to Kiandra, where he has been making inquiry with reference to the prospecting…

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The Gold Discovery on the Clyde River. News From the Spot

Goulburn Herald · Friday 30 March 1894 · page 3

THE Evening News seems to have justified its somewhat sensational report as to the rich gold discovery on the Clyde River. Dealing with the discovery, the Braidwood Dispatch,…

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The Mining on Private Lands Bill. Deputation to a Minister

Goulburn Herald · Friday 30 March 1894 · page 3

A DEPUTATION, introduced by Mr. Sharp, M.P., waited upon Dr. MacLaurin, M.L.C., on Wednesday night, and presented to him a number of suggestions for amendments in the…

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The Wyalong Goldfield. Opinions of Disappointed Goldseekers

Goulburn Herald · Friday 30 March 1894 · page 3

A RESIDENT of Bowral who is now at Wyalong has written warning people that the place is overrun in every particular. Plenty of tradesmen and mechanics, he says are…

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The Wyalong Goldfield. Opinion of a Practical Geologist

The Burrowa News · Friday 30 March 1894 · page 2

The extracts given below are taken from a letter received from a well-known Sydney civil engineer, and who also it a thoroughly practical geologist, now on the…

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Coolgardie Mines. London

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 31 March 1894 · page 4

Mr. Doolette, of Adelaide, is floating several companies to work mines at Coolgardie, West Australia…

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Important Gold Discovery near Tallangatta

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 March 1894 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Considerable excitement prevailed at Tallangatta, owing to a discovery made on Tuesday by a young man named Isaac Macklin. While opossum hunting be reached a place on the…

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The Wyalong Gold Fields. WYALONG

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 31 March 1894 · page 4

People are arriving in greater numbers than ever. Additional lines of coaches are being established. Cobb and Company open in a week or two. The weather has been…

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The John Jerger Gold-saving Machine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 March 1894 · page 2

THE machines are being manufactured at "Hudson Brother,'," Clyde, and at "Henry Simon's," Meadow Bank. About 200 will be ready within a week…

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Increase of Gold Discovered in the Colony

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 March 1894 · page 4

THE annual report of the Mines Department is in preparation and will probably be laid before Parliament in a few days. An important feature of the report will be the…

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The Mining on Private Lands Bill

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 March 1894 · page 2

A difficulty having cropped up in connection with the Mining on Private Lands Bill, Dr MacLaurin, who has charge of the measure in the Upper House, intends to have an…

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The John Jerger Gold-saving Machine. Statutory Declaration

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 March 1894 · page 2

I, WILLIAM LINEGAR, of Harden, in the colony of New South Wales, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—That I placed in the John Jerger Gold-saving Machine three pennyweights of…

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