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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1868

2 stories in Murray's papers

The Gympie Creek Gold-fields, Queensland

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 4 April 1868 · page 4

The accounts which are received from these gold-fields are almost uniformly disastrous. The Queensland Guardian writes as follows : —" The Maryborough diggings do not appear…

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The Gold Ship. (Translated and Altered from the German—Das Buch der Well.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 12 September 1868 · page 5

The incident described in the following narrative is said to have happened on board-ship daring a voyage from Melbourne to Liverpool, at the time of the gold fever in…

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