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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1881

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Coal-Cliff

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 21 October 1881 · page 2

THE JETTY.—We are at present in the midst of a storm, winch is keeping the pot boiling in the ocean with a vengeance, but does not tend to make our own pot boil as we would wish for. All the…

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Coal-Cliff

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 28 October 1881 · page 2

ADVANCE CLIFTON!—We are in high glee here now, seeing the jetty work speeding toward completion. Within a few days more I hope we shall be in a position to defy old Neptuno, so far as the…

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The Bulli and Coal-Cliff Road. Public Meeting at Clifton

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 1 November 1881 · page 2

A fairly attended public meeting was held at the School of Arts, Clifton, on Friday evening, in accordance with advertisement, to consider the matter of the Bulli-Coal-Cliff Road and other…

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The Bulli-Coal-Cliff Road. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 4 November 1881 · page 2

SIR,—In your leader of this day you take upon, yourself to pass certain strictures upon this Company for making a claim for compensation for certain deviations of the road through their property…

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Mr. Garlick and the Coal-Cliff Road. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury")

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 11 November 1881 · page 2

SIR,—It appears to me and many others by Mr. Garlick's letter in Friday's 'Mercury,' that it is him, and not the North Bulli Company, that is closing our road, and wanting payment for the…

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Extraordinary Mining Fraud

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 18 November 1881 · page 4

AT the London Central Criminal Court recently Ledru Rollin Reynolds was sentenced by the recorder to two years' imprisonment and hard labour for having…

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Minerals, Metals, and Mining

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 22 November 1881 · page 4

Under this title Professor Denton in lecturing in Sydney said, The earth being as a whole four and a half times heavier than water, must…

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Coal-Cliff

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 December 1881 · page 2

THIEVING.—Until recently our little township has deservedly bad a reputation for honesty, but it appears as if we were about to loose our good name in that respect. We are now falling from…

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Coal-Cliff

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 December 1881 · page 2

CROOKED TALK.—Constables pay as a visit here every now and then, but nothing of the robbery has yet transpired in the way of unearthing the thief or thieves. Very crooked talk however, is…

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Mummy Mining

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 December 1881 · page 4

The recent discovery near Thebes of a bonanza of ancient Egyptians is one of the most important discoveries of the century. Surface indications of mummies and other objects of…

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How Lefroy Murdered Mr. Gold

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 27 December 1881 · page 4

LEFRRY, the murderer of Mr. Gold on the Brighton Railway as our readers well know, was recently tried and hanged, and the circumstances of the ark deed were so…

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