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Mining & the mines, 1868

3 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Mary River Gold-field

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 3

SINCE the discovery of tho Mary River Gold-Field itself, we have not had more startling intelligence to announce than we have to-day. Our townsman, Mr. George Curtis, who has…

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Nomination for the Northern Gold-fields

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 4 July 1868 · page 2

THE nomination of a candidate to represent the Northern Gold-fields, in the Parliament at New South Wales, took place at [?] on Monday, June 22, in the presence of about 150 persons…

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The Thames Gold Field. 1600 Ounces of Gold From Sixteen Hours’ Crushing. (From the Thames Advertiser, July 21.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 22 August 1868 · page 4

HUNT’S battery was started about noon yesterday, with the poorest stuff on the claim, in order to fill up the boxes, and give the richer quartz and the battery a better test…

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