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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1878

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Gold Mining Leases. Department of Lands, Sydney, 8th February, 1878

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1878 · page 4

The undermentioned lease has been forwarded to the Warden of the Tumut and Adelong Mining District and if the lessees do not take delivery…

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Gold Mining Leases. Departmont of Mines, Sydney, 7th May, 1878

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 15 May 1878 · page 3

THE following parties must point out the boundary marks of their leases within thirty days from date, or their applications will be refused:…

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Science. Colours From Coal

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 15 June 1878 · page 2

PROFESSOR ABMSTRONG delivered a lecture recent on this subject at the London Institution. After explaining the retort, condenser, exhauster, scrubber and…

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Colinton Gold Field

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 3

In [?] of the provisional of the wining Act of 1874,I, Sir [?] George Robert Rubinson, Governor of [?] colony of New South Wales [?]…

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Mining Rewards. Department of Mines, Sydney, 27th June, 1878

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 6 July 1878 · page 4

THE undermentioned rewards will be paid to the persons, and in the manner following, that is to any:— To the person who shall first discover…

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Gold-Mining Leases. Department of Mines, Sydney, 9th July, 1878

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 13 July 1878 · page 3

THE promise to grant the following lesson has been revoked:— Charles P[?]ray, D. Gro[?], and others, 4 acres, at Ingalara Colliar's Creek, county…

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Braidwood Gold

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 4

[?] imported in our last issue that a [?] pure gold weighing 3 ozs. 7 had been found at Little River by [?] in what locality, and now we have…

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"Mines and Mineral Statistics"

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 3

THE annual report of the Department of Mines New South Wales for the Year 1877, Compile by M[?] darrie Woods, th[?] Under Secretary,…

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Gbandmother's Gold Buckle. I.—a Green Door Opens

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 5

THE July morning glowed with the heat of an Italian summer, the sun pourned down rays of intense white light on the marble facade of the Church of Santa Croce in…

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Dromedary Gold Dust

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 28 August 1878 · page 3

JOHN [?] and party [?] from the Dromedary Diggings, sold on Wednesday to the Commercial Bank two hundred and eighty-six ounces…

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Gold at Dromedary

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 31 August 1878 · page 3

THE following letter has been addressed to the Under-Secretary by Mr. Warden De Boos: Braidwood, 26th August, 1878…

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The Natural Dissemination of Gold

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 September 1878 · page 2

THE results of recent investigations only go to confirm more and more the opinion long held by geologists as to the wide distribution of gold…

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Coal and Its Produces

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1878 · page 2

Apart from the varied [?]ses of c[?] in its ordinary state, we owe an imm[?] deal to the products which by chemical means we obtain from it; and it is our purpose in this…

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Good as Gold

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 9 October 1878 · page 4

who shall [?] when shall [?]…

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Tales of the Mines. the Hanging Rock

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 12 October 1878 · page 1

WHEN to our pa[?] away is given, The end no [?] The [?] and river With [?]…

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Tales of the Mines. the Little Diggers

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 19 October 1878 · page 1

Author of [?] &c. To die when [?] is to escape A thousand [?]…

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Gold-mining Leases. Department of Mines, Sydney, 15th October, 1978

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 23 October 1878 · page 3

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned gold-mining leases have been cancelled, the lessees having failed to pay the rent due thereon…

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The Ba[?] of Gold

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 26 October 1878 · page 1

THE Rev. Bryan Berry was the [?] representative of the Roman Catholic faith in the wild and mountainous district of Jimballico, an isolated stretch of country in one of…

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Gold-Mining Leases. Department, of Lands, Sydney, 25th October, 1878

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 30 October 1878 · page 3

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned leases have been forwarded to the Wardens for the districts named for delivery to the…

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Parish Roads. Department of Mines. Sydney. 25th October. 1878

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 30 October 1878 · page 4

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, having [?]d it expedient to open and make the several parish roads mentioned in the…

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