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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1897

4 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

"Rhymes from the Mines."

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 12

WE have received from Mrs Angus and Robertson, the well-known and enterprising Sydney publishers, a copy of Edward Dyson's poems, "Rhymes from the Mines, and Other Lines."…

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The Grenowlan Shale Mines

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 6

DURING a trip to Capertee last week, we visited the Genowlan Shale Mines, and there saw much that was interesting. Capertee, by the way, is a small township, containing one hotel, presided…

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The Gold Slug. [From the Bulletin.]

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 17 July 1897 · page 7

WITH sundown it became chilly, and the door was closed. A fire in the wide fireplace and a milk-pan of dough set to rise before it; the father, seated under the…

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A Narrow-Squeak. a Story of a Bag of Gold. [Written for the "Gazette."

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 18 December 1897 · page 22

IT was in the old busbranging days, when every tree one passed in the bush might for the time-being prove the hiding place of an outlaw, and when every stranger one meets…

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