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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1865

2 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Horrible Death of Three Gold-diggers From Thirst

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 12 January 1865 · page 2

WE have today to perform the melancholy duty of recording the sacrifice of three more victims to auri sacra fames. Sergeant Gallagher brought information to town on Saturday evening of a man who…

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Brooks'-creek Gold Field. To the Editor of the Queanbeyan Age

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 25 May 1865 · page 2

SIR,—I feel it my duty to vindicate the character of this gold field, especially as a poor man's diggings. Now I shall state my own case as truthfully as possible. I came here from Warrumbucca about eight…

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