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Mining & the mines, 1862

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Gold in Great Britain

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 30 May 1862 · page 4

Sir Roderick Murchison is justly entitled to the credit of having prophesied that gold would be found in Australia. But not even that distinguished geologist appears to have imagined…

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The Coal Oil of Pennsylvania. (From the Times.)

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 30 May 1862 · page 4

The production of oil from the springs in Canada and the United States continues on a scale far greater than the means of transport. At present the refining trade as regards this…

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Gold on the Murray

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 31 May 1862 · page 2

FOB a long time past rumor has been rife that the lieges of Albury and the inhabitants '. of all the surrounding districts would, some morning, be astonished with the revelation…

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The Albury Gold Reward

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 14 June 1862 · page 2

LAST Monday night's meeting-, touching and concerning the recent gold discovery in the neighborhood of the town, and with reference to the means for bringing that valuable discovery…

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Albury Gold Reward Fund

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 21 June 1862 · page 2

THE attention of Prospectors, Miners, and Others, is particularly directed to the following, in connection with the recent gold discoveries in the vicinity of the town of Albury…

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The Gold Escort and Mail Robbery, Orange

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 28 June 1862 · page 2

Between four mid five o'clock, on Sunday evening, the Escort from the Lachlan arrived at a creek near Mr. Clements', forty-five miles from Orange, when they saw two bullock teams and one horse team…

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Further Particulars of the Gold Escort Robbery ( From the Western Examiner of Saturday)

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 4 July 1862 · page 4

On Monday, just as the Bathurst mail was about to leave Orange, our usually quiet town was thrown into a state of consternation, in consequence of a report—which afterwards…

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Albury Gold Reward Fund

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 5 July 1862 · page 2

THE attention of Prospectors, Miners, and Others, is particularly directed to the following, in connection with the recent gold discoveries in the vicinity of the town of Albury…

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The Albury Gold-field

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 12 July 1862 · page 2

UPWAUDS of a month has now elapsed since the public notification of a reward of some tiling think like £1,000 to the fortunate discoverers of a payablle gold-freld within fifteen miles…

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The Lachlan Gold Fields

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 18 July 1862 · page 3

We extract the following from the Argus own correspondent’s letter, dated Forbes, July 3:— In my last communication, dated from…

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Discovery of a New Goldfield in New Zealand

Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Echuca Chronicle · Saturday 6 September 1862 · page 4

THE Otago Daily News of the 16th ultimo says:— Yesterday afternoon two men w[?]nt to the Treasury in Dunedin and deposited a bag of…

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A Woman Turned Into Char-coal

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 11 October 1862 · page 4

The medical gentlemen of this city have been in a high feverish state of consultation for some days past, over a very extraordinary lusus natural, in the shape and form of a…

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More About Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 1 November 1862 · page 2

SOME months ago a reward fund of nearly a thousand pounds was subscribed to in Albury, intended as an incentive to more active steps than Lave yet been adopted with a view to…

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Gold Discovery Meeting

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 13 December 1862 · page 3

Monday evening a very numerously attended [?] was held, pursuant to a requisition to the or at the Exchange Hotel, Albury. be Mayor occupied the chair, and having read the…

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The Albury Gold Fund

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 20 December 1862 · page 2

ALBURY, at last, seems to be throwing off some of its apathy. All along believing that a gold-field of no ordinary character was buried at the feet of its inhabitants, and only…

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