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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1868

207 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 4 of 11

Mining

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1868 · page 2

KIANDRA.—Little has been done in mining matters since I last wrote to you. The crushing machine has been completed, but it is at present at a stand still for want of water. It…

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Mining Report

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1868 · page 3

At last the much desired rain has come, and has given a sufficiency of water for the alluvial miner. At the Seven-mile, we hear that there is now a small supply in the dams, so that…

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(To the Editor of the Mining Record.)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1868 · page 2

SIR—I see by the last week's "Record" that Grenfell is placed under the Towns and Police Act, and I do trust that something will be done about an Inspector of Weights and…

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Dance Houses. (To the Editor of the Mining Record)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1868 · page 2

SIR—I trust you will give me on opportunity of expressing an opinion, which I believe is concurred in by numbers of my fellow townspeople, viz., that the net of the…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [We do not necessarily endorse the opinion expressed by our correspondents.] (To the Editor of the Mining Record.) Amusements

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1868 · page 2

SIR,—It is claimed by a large and influential portion of every community that amusements conduce to the health, both body and mind, of the young as well as the old. It is…

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Mining

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 30 May 1868 · page 2

THE KILEIVAN RUSH.—There has not been any news yet to warrant the rush that has been made; some hundreds holes have been put down ad bottomed without any good…

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Grenfell Mining Report

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 30 May 1868 · page 3

An important feature in our mining history has been made during the present week. This is no less than a reduction of 5s, a ton in the price of crushing. This reduction,…

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Grendell Mining Report

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1868 · page 3

The escort on Tuesday last conveyed to Sydney 3,202 ozs. 14 dwts. 16 grs. of gold, and £175 in each. The following particulars respecting the…

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In Re the Late Bailiff. (To the Editors of the Mining Record.)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1868 · page 2

At a Small Debts Court held in Forbes, some time back, O obtained a verdict against Mr. H. G. Huddlestone (now a bailiff at Grenfell of the Small Debts Court) for the sum of £6…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [We do not necessarily endorse the opinion expressed by our correspondents.] the Forbes "Difficulty." to the Editors of the Mining Record.)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1868 · page 2

SIR—Will you give me leave to say a few worth with regard to a paragraph in the last "Lachlan Reporter," in which I am stated to be the author of some letters which appeared…

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Gold-fields Members

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1868 · page 2

A SECTION of the gold miners of the country are again called upon to exercise the privilege of electing a person to represent them in parliament. Mr. Pickering, late member…

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Grenfell Mining Report

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1868 · page 3

Nothing of importance having occurred in the immediate neighbourhood of Grenfell during the week, interest has principally centred in two new alluvial rushes—one to a…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [We do not necessarily endorse the opinions a expressed by our correspondents.] the Grenfell Police. (To the Editor of the Mining Record)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1868 · page 2

SIR—The conduct of the police here on several recent occasions, in arresting the unoffending, and allowing a set of rowdies of s particular class to go free, has been for some…

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Mining. the Queensland Gold-fields

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1868 · page 2

YADDA (JIMNA CREEK).—We are just now experiencing one of the most disagreeable phase of the digger's life, camped in a denselyacurbby gully, some in tents, many in…

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Grenfell Mining Report

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1868 · page 3

When our last report was written there was considerable excitement in the town about the gold discovery at the 14-Mile, and the belief was general that another payable…

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(To the Editors of the Mining Record.)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1868 · page 2

SIR—Will you be kind enough to inform me if persons who get the blankets supplied by Government, for distribution among the aboriginals, are entitled to sell them to settlers…

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(To the Editor of the Mining Record.)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1868 · page 2

SIR—The entertainment given the other evening, in aid of the Public School, shows plainly that the public would gladly attend to witness any kind of musical or literary…

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The "Sydney Mail" and the "Mining Record."

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1868 · page 2

THE "Sydney Mail" of last week, in publishing a paragraph which appeared in the "Record" of June 6th, relating to the Chinese at Burrangong, comments on it in the following…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by our correspondents.] (To the Editor of the Mining Record)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1868 · page 2

SIR,—It is the lot of some persons to please (as the French say) all the world. I think we may safely say that teachers rank amongst those unfortunates…

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Mining

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 27 June 1868 · page 2

ADELONG.—Mining news is far better this week than it has been for some time past. R. Trudgeon and party's stone, which I stated in my last was expected to go about two ozs…

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