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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1867

5 stories in Murray's papers

Barrier Ranges (Alleged) Gold- Fields

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 March 1867 · page 2

Scarcely anything further has yet occurred to satisfy the public mind on the above subject. The Government of South Australia have despatched a party to make inquiries and report thereon. Cobb’s…

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Deepest Gold-mine in the World

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 April 1867 · page 1

The great exemplar of quartz-mining, not only for wealth and production, but as shedding more light upon the real nature and' condition of quartz mining than most others, seems to be that…

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Better Than Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 14 September 1867 · page 4

BETTER than gold is the [?]repose Of the eons of toil when their labore close; Better than gold is the poor man’s sleep, And the balm that drops on his slumbers deep…

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The Murder of the Rockhampton Gold Escort

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 23 November 1867 · page 4

The Brisbane Courier of the 12th instant contains the following telegram from Rockhampton with reference to the murder of the troopers forming the escort from thence to Clermont:—…

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The Gold Duty

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 30 November 1867 · page 2

The following bill was read a first time in the Assembly on Wednesday, the 20th inslant:—-Whereas it is deemed expedient to amend the Acts twentieth Victoria number seventeen…

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