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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1873

19 stories in Murray's papers

Intercolonial. Queensland. Charters Towers Goldfield

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 1

The Brisbane Courier has received from the Secretary for Public Works and Mines the following report from Mr. Commissioner Macdonald :…

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All That Glitters Need Not Be Gold

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 February 1873 · page 2

The principal actresses of the Paris theatres have struck—not for a rise of salary, but against the tyranny of fashion. They pronounce against those pieces aux robes,…

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Bourke Mining Intelligence

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 March 1873 · page 4

Min[?] land for a distance of sixty miles [?] continues to be taken up weekly. Last Thursday there were 180 acres [?] of miners rights have…

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Mining Intelligence

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 March 1873 · page 4

[?] R. M. [?] reports.—There has been a steady demand through the week for shares in our favourite [?] a good many people from beyond the…

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Hay—friday. the Cudgelligo Goldfield. Latest Intelligence

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 3

Four days ago there were 600 men on the ground, which is 125 miles from Booligal. The stations are being deserted of their hands. There is a regular stampede from tho village of Booligal. One young man…

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Open Column. the New Goldfield on the Lachlan. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 May 1873 · page 3

SIR,—Permit me to make a few remarks, through the medium of your invaluable journal, with reference to the news of the gold finding at Cudgelligo. I do not wish to be egotistical, but simply to point…

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By Electric Telegraph. Hay. Friday 8 p.m. More News From the Bald Hill Goldfields

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 May 1873 · page 2

Cudgelligo news is still favaurable. Private letters advise friends to come. The alluvial sinking —shotty gold is found at six feet deep, about six miles from the reef. The station hands are leaving…

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Bald Hills Goldfield. Cudjellico, May 2, 1873

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 7 May 1873 · page 2

As you are aware, a quartz reef has been discovered here by a man called Foster. This discovery has caused a deal of excitement, and a rush Las taken place to Cudjellico Lake in…

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The New Gold-field. (From tho Hay Correspondent of the Deniliquin Chronicle.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 10 May 1873 · page 5

The Cudgellgo Reefs are no myth after all. An old resident of this district arrived on Saturday night with e rich specimen of quartz taken, he says, promiscuously from the heaps…

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The Cudgelligo Goldfield. [By Electric Telegraph.] Hay. May 5, 1873

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 May 1873 · page 2

Some practical miners have returned from Cudgelligo to Hay, and they declare that these diggings are a failure. Gold has only been found in the…

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Lake Cudgellico Goldfield

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 14 May 1873 · page 2

SIR,— I do myself the honour for the inform of the Hon. the Secretary for Lands, to report upon the discovery of an auriferous quartz reef at Lake [?] on the Lower Lachlan…

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[?]Degelligo Goldfield

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 May 1873 · page 3

[?] has submitted to us for [?] original of the following letter, [?] account of the above [?] May 3, 1873…

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Cudgellico Gold-fields. to the Editor of the Hay Standard

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 21 May 1873 · page 3

SIR,— In reference to the above diggings, I have seen so many curious accounts—many of them written by parties who have little or no knowledge ot the subject they are writing…

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Bald Hills Goldfield. Cudgellico, May 15, 1873

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 21 May 1873 · page 3

THE latest newspapers say that the Bald Hills is a failure—it has been pronounced so by practical diggers, who have returned to Hay. Why do these practical diggers…

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Lake Cargilligo Gold Field

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 24 May 1873 · page 5

Sin,—I do myself the honor for the information of the Hon. the Secretary for Lands, to report upon the discovery of au auriferous quartz reef at Lake Cargilligo on the Lower…

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Bald Hills Goldfield. Cudgellico, May 29, 1873

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 4 June 1873 · page 3

A RUSH took place last Monday evening to a place four miles north of here where another reef has been discovered. Great excitement prevailed all Monday night and Tuesday,…

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Open Column. [?]T Wilcannia Amalga Copper Mining Committed). [?] Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 June 1873 · page 3

[?] have, on many former occasions, [?] in your columns matters affecting [?] our district, and as the present stop[?]essary delay in reworking the…

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Mining Leases

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 30 August 1873 · page 4

As some little misapprehension appears to exist amongst miners and others in this district with reference to the interpretation of the [?]rd clause of the Gold-fields Act,…

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Down in a Coal Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 13 September 1873 · page 6

We descend the shaft with a disagreeable feeling of going, we know not whither, save somewhere into the depths of a black pit which yawns beneath us. Once at the bottom…

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