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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1895

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Fairy Gold. Chapter Ix

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 19 February 1895 · page 4

"Well, I don't think much of your Viscount!" Mrs. Sargent announces decidedly, when she drvies over to Fair View on the following afternoon…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter IX.—(Continued)

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 21 February 1895 · page 4

"Perhaps you don't look at things in the same light as I do, aunt Keren," she says severely—"perhaps you don't see anything very improper in it! I…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter X.

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 4

The days glide on into works—so long to look forward to, so short to look back upon. The fresh golden brightness of the autumn mornings, the frosty calm…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter X.—(Continued)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 26 February 1895 · page 4

She talks long and earnestly with her son, and she tells him everything. Lady Nora is never troubled by delicacy when it goes against her interests; so now she…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter Xi

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 28 February 1895 · page 4

She is sitting alone, her chamber door shut and locked against every one—siting in a chair by the window, gazing out with dark, wistful, yearning…

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Fairy Gold Chapter XI.—(Continued)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 2 March 1895 · page 4

This is the dream that the girl in the white silk robe and the bridal robe has been dreaming and now she awakes, in her own room in No. 9, Rutland Gardens…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter XII.—(Continued)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 5 March 1895 · page 4

A flame of colour dyes the girl's cheeks, but it is not a blush of shy gladness) A light glitters ia hor dark dilating eyes—alas, they are not…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter XII—(Continued)

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 7 March 1895 · page 4

Captain Glynne smiles back at his young wife, secretly amazed and pleased. She was dendly pale and shy and quiet, to the verge of insipidity that morning…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter XII.—(Continued)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 4

Yolande lays her magazine down on her lap as soon as it grows too dark to read, and, loaning back, covers her eyas with her hands and protends to sleep…

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The Coal Trade

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 12 March 1895 · page 2

The total quantity of coal shipped from this district during the month of February was 45,423 tons, of which 33,033 tons was sent from the Bellambi and Port Kembla…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter XIII.—(Continued)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 12 March 1895 · page 4

But, when Dover is readied, after a choice dinner—served in their own sitting-room—as they were expected at the hotel—followed by a cup of good coffee…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter XIII.—(Continued)

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 14 March 1895 · page 4

"Glad of what?" Dallas demands sharply. "I wish you wouldn't make a scene ever discovering a private affair of mine with which you have nothing…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter Xiv

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 4

"I wonder," Captain Glynne muses apprebensively, "if there is another 'scene' or unpleasantness of some kind in the air? And yet I hardly think so…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter Xiv. (Continued)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 19 March 1895 · page 4

"Yes, I believe she is," Dallas says; and, answering the sorrowful tone of sympathy with a quick close pressure of his arm, he bends his hend until his…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter Xv

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 21 March 1895 · page 4

It is a large well-furnished room of handsome proportion and exceedingly uncomfortable appearance, presenting the aspect of a first-class hospital ward…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter Xvi

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 4

"Your nurse is quito too devoted, my dear Maria!" Mrs. Murray says, in those shrill labored tones and with that excessive politeness and pleasantness of…

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The Cremorne Coal Company

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 26 March 1895 · page 3

"Tiger" Inglis, in a letter to a gentleman in Newcastle, states that he has succeeded in floating the Cremorne coal property, and by the end of the current year work will be…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter XVI.—(Continued.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 26 March 1895 · page 4

"Gad, yes," the gentleman answers, "or a young rose in summer-time!"—and he puts the end of his ivory penholder—a very handsome one, gold and…

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Fairy Gold. Chapter Xvii

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 28 March 1895 · page 4

Mrs. Murray is gone; but the sting of her bland obtrusive presence remains, to unhappy Yolande at least. Dallas was asking for her, seeking her,…

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The Coal Trade. Austinmer

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 28 March 1895 · page 2

There is a decided improvement in the coal trade, at least as far as the mine here in concerned, so much so that time and quarter had to be resorted to to cope with…

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