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Mining & the mines, 1886

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The Kimberley Goldfields

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 28 May 1886 · page 3

Mr. Robert Purvis, w[?] has just returned from the Kimberley goldfield, Western Australian, sends us (Dubbo Despatch) the following interesting letter:— Will you please publish this letter in your valuable…

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News From the Goldfields

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 May 1886 · page 15

The [?] Menmuir returned to Palmerston on the 20th inst., from King Sound by Point Torment, 15 miles from Derby. The schooner An[?]e from Palmerston arrived after her, and…

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Accounts of Returned Miners

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 June 1886 · page 27

Mr. Robert Purvis, who lately returned from the Kimberley goldfields, sends the following interesting letter to the Dubbo Despatch.-.—" Will you please publish this letter…

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The Assistant Minister of Mines at Rutherglen

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 June 1886 · page 27

Mr. Bell, Assistant Minister of Mines, accompained by Messrs. Hall and Graham, M.L.A.'s, arrived at Rutherglen on Friday night and stayed there over-night. They…

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The Kimberley Goldfields

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 June 1886 · page 26

The s.[?]. Victoria sailed from Sydney for Cambridge Gull and Derby on the 28th ult, en route for the new rush. Messrs. Ponder and Co., the chatterers of the steamer, engaged…

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The Kimberley Goldfields

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 June 1886 · page 4

Mr Robert Purvis (who has just returned from the Kimberley goldfield. Western Australia, sends us (Dubbo Despatch) the following Interesting letter:—…

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The Kimberley Goldfields. News From Western Australia

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 June 1886 · page 25

A correspondent of the Brisbane Courier, writing from Derby on 5th May, says :— " Having spent some pleasant times in Queensland, it naturally occurred to me here…

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The Kimberley Goldfields

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 June 1886 · page 23

The Sydney Morning Herald has received letter from Mr. T. K. Co[?], which was sent from Derby on 7th inst. to Cossack, and thence telegraphed. It is as follows :—" Strongly…

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Gold at Marble Island. a Rumoured Mount Morgan

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1886 · page 27

We learn that a party of men, under instructions from, and accompanied by a man named Shudforth, described as a chemist and mineralogier, of Sydney, recently obtained a miner’s…

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The Kimberley Goldfields. a Returned Prospector

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1886 · page 38

The Tatiara Mail of 16th inst. writes :— “Mr. Arthur Edmonds, an old resident of Border Town, and one of the earliest prospectors at Kimberley, has just returned from…

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The Kimberley Goldfields

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 4

Mr Arthur Edmonds, an old resident of Border Town, and one of the earlist prospectors at Kimberley, has just returned from Kimberley. He went to Perth last year to select land, but…

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Important "Mining Discovery in Tasmania

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1886 · page 26

A, Hobart telegram says:—"A. prospector named Grotty arrived in Launceston on Friday, and re ported that he had discovered a good reef at Mount Lyell, on the North-west Coast…

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The Kimberley Goldfields

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1886 · page 26

The Adelaide Steamship Company has received a telegram from Cossack," Western Australia,: dated June 28, staling that the steamship Perth had arrived there from Derby,…

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The Kimberley Goldfields. Interesting Particulars

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 July 1886 · page 15

Some interesting information has been received relative to the Kimberley goldfields and the rival routes. Mr. D[?]rrad, who has a station on the River Ord, on the boundary…

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Fatal Mining Accident at Tumbarumba. Tumbarumba

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 July 1886 · page 4

Henry Fox, a miner, of Upper Tumbarumba was crushed by a fall of earth yesterday, and died to-day…

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The Kimberley Goldfields

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 July 1886 · page 23

News from Western Australia to 2nd July is to the effect that the steamers Gambier, A[?]ghan, and Victoria had arrived safely. [?]70 men had landed at Wyndham, Cambridge [?]all,…

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The Kimberley Goldfields

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 July 1886 · page 26

News from Wyndham, Western Australia states that ten stores and one publichouse have been started there. One thousand disggers have recently arrived at that port, and the majority…

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Three Miners Killed by Falls of Earth

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 27

A fatal accident occurred in the Davies Freehold Junction mine, Creswick, on the 22nd inst., by which two miners, named W. Bray and F. Balch, lost their lives. Both…

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The Kimberley Goldfields. a Digger Killed by Natives

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 26

The [?] Catterthun and the Simla reached Cambridge Gulf on July 12. Everything was landed safely and comparatively easily. The horses had a quarter of a mile to swim ashore,…

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Gold Discovery in Tasmania

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 August 1886 · page 25

Particulars of the Mount Lyell gold discovery on the West Coast of Tasmania show its extraordinary richness. The discoverers, Crotty, Dixon, and Henry, have been working three…

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