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

Mining & the mines, 1894

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Mining at Coolgardie. London, Oct. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 October 1894 · page 2

The capital of the Austin Gold-mining Company, Coolgardie, namely, £50,000, has been over-subscribed…

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The Wyalong Gold-field

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 October 1894 · page 2

WYALONG, Friday.—A parcel of 77½ tons from Davis and party's Christmas Gift claim was cleared up yesterday at Gough's battery, for a yield of 161oz. of gold. A small parcel of 10 tons, from one…

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Gold Find at Blayney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 October 1894 · page 4

Blayney, Monday.—A new gold-bearing reef has been discovered by Stokes, Murray, and Rutherford at Burntyards, on the church and school estate. The locality is about one…

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Mining in Western Australia. London, Oct. 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 October 1894 · page 2

The capital of the Hampton Plains Estate Company, Western Australia, has been over-subscribed…

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Cable News. Mining in Western Australia. London, Oct. 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 October 1894 · page 5

Abbot's Gold-mining Company, Murchison, Western Australia, is issuing £81,500 worth of shares to the public at 2s 6d premium. Oct. 4…

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Off to the Goldfields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 October 1894 · page 6

THE booking that is daily taking place hi the offices of the steamship companies by those who are hurrying to the goldfields in the Far West points to a recurrence of the gold fever. The largest and…

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West Australian Goldfields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 October 1894 · page 4

COOLGARDIE, Wednesday.—In opening out at the 28oft level from the main shaft in Bayley's mine a reef has been struck showing good gold. This is believed to be a…

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The Wyalong Goldfield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 October 1894 · page 4

Wyalong, Thursday.—A fresh influx is taking place to the field, probably the result of tile recent satisfactory crushings and further promising developments. Several coaches now arrive daily laden…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 8 October 1894 · page 3

THE Braidwood Dispatch has the following items :—Mr. H. Gordon of Nerriga brought into the Commercial Bank on Thursday a fine cake of retorted gold weighing 32 oz…

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Mining in the Braidwood District

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 October 1894 · page 3

MR. H. GORDON, of Nerriga, brought into the Commercial Bank on Thursday a fine cake of retorted gold weighing 32ozs, which he has just obtained from a crushing of 20…

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Mining in Western Australia. London, Oct. 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 October 1894 · page 4

The Bissenberger Gold-mining Company, Western Australia, with a capital of £75,000, of which shares to the extent of £30,000 are to be issued to the public, has been registered…

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Western Australian Goldfields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 October 1894 · page 4

COOLGARDIE, Saturday.—It is reported that very rich gold has been struck in the north shaft of the Londonderry mine in driving along the course of the reef. Most of the people now interested in the…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 10 October 1894 · page 3

THE companies registered to operate in West Australia show aggregate capital amounting to two millions and a-half, of which it is thought about two-thirds are paid up…

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The Wyalong Goldfield

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 October 1894 · page 2

A FRESH influx is taking place to the field, probably the result of the recent satisfactory crushing and further promising developments. Several coaches now…

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South African Gold. London, Oct. 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 October 1894 · page 2

During the present year South Africa has exported gold to the value of £8,000,000. Sir Hercules Robinson, a former Governor of Cape Colony, in commenting on this output, expresses…

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Mining in Western Australia. London, Oct. 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 October 1894 · page 4

The shares in Abbot's Gold-mining Company, Murchison, Western Australia, have been alloted…

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Mining. Export of Gold From Braidwood

Goulburn Herald · Friday 12 October 1894 · page 3

THE Dispatch states that during the past six months 2518 ozs. 11days. 21 grs, of gold have been sent from the Braidwood district by escort; also that £4000 in specie had been…

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Gundaroo Gold Field. Its Formation and Its Future

The Yass Courier · Friday 12 October 1894 · page 2

ON Thursday, the 4th instant, at the request of several gentlemen of the little town of Yass, I had the pleasure of turning my footsteps towards the wonderful gold-bearing…

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Telegrams. Sydney and Colonial. Sydney, Friday, 3 p.m. the Lucknow Gold-stealing Case

Goulburn Herald · Friday 12 October 1894 · page 5

RICHARD BARRETT for the Lucknow Mine gold-stealing case was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. Judge Murray said he was much inclined to believe that Barrott…

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Coolgardie Goldfield

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 October 1894 · page 1

LORD SUDELEY, who has been spending some days in Sydney, was recently on a visit to Coolgardie. Although, as he says, he is but an amateur at mining,…

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