The Story-Teller. A Pile of Gold
MRS. Calcroft, and tier small family, consisting of an only son and daughter, were seated at the table, partaking of their evening repast, when a rapping at the door interrupted…
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Mining & the mines, 1872
10 stories in Mid North Coast's papers
Gold Mining at Bishop’s Bridge, Near West Maitland
TUESDAY’S Mercury says:—This locality continues to excite a great deal of interest, and the possibility of discovering payable gold there is believed in by many persons, some fine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Discovery of Gold Near Tamworth
Quite a sensation was created in town during the past week by the rumored discovery of a payable quartz reef on the range east of Tamworth, and only a few miles distant from town…
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IN the reign of Darius, gold was thirteen times more valuable, weight for weight than silver In the time of Plato it was. twelve times more valuable. In that of Julius…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Romance of Tin-Mining, To the Editor of the D. D. G[?]
SIR.— Mr. Di[?] reproduced lately a thought of a grand thinker of the olden time that if a man wait patiently, the world is sure to some round to him…
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ONE WHO WALKS THROUGH THE STREETS of Sydney, or sits at any public dining table in the city, now hears but a single topic discussed. Politics have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Mining [?]
MANY Years ago I visited the Bendigo goldfields It was a [?] place and harboured men of the most [?] I knew there a middle aged captain of that crack…
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A CORRESPONDENT writes to Thursday’s Mercury, as follows :— Whilst Maitland prospectors have been in active search for the precious metals, persons in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Travels of a Gold Pen. (From the Missouri Republican.)
A QUEEN tale about the travels of a gold pen is supplied by the Genessee “ Republic.” It says that a Major Morderwell has for some weeks past suffered from violent irritation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nowendoc Gold Field. (Special report to the Mercury.)
I HAVE occasionally notified the fact of small nuggets having been found at our digging, varying in size from 8 or 10 dwts. to the largest discovered up to the date of my last, weighing…
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