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Mining & the mines, 1870

2 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Terrible Colliery Explosion

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 18 June 1870 · page 4

A terrible colliery accident happened on April 8 near Bathgate, the centre of a district where collieries and mineral oil distilleries are numerous. It was discovered about…

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Select poetry GOLD

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 1 October 1870 · page 1

Deeds are done the foulest, Murders yet untold; Wrongs the worst, the basest, for the sake of Gold…

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