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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
63 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 4
FAIRFIELD, NOVEMBER 16—I landed at the elbow, sixteen miles below Grafton; the diggings here are scattered over a wide area of country generally inaccessible to wheeled conveyances. Numbers of persons are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supposed Murder.—Two men cleaning out on old shaft this week near the old station came on a quantity of wood, apparently thrown in intentionally, and above the wood a dead sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The rush to the post-office side of Mount Jones, where Harry Wright and Taylor lately found the rich washing stuff, is now at an end. Shafts were bottomed in all directions around the lucky spot…
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