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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1871

3 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

A Family Buried by a Landslip at the Thames Gold-fields

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 18 May 1871 · page 2

THE heavy rain and gale of Tuesday night in some sort prepared the minds of the public for the receipt of news of accidents in the hills and gullies of the…

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Arrival of the San Francisco Mail [Through Greville's Telegram Company.] Sydney. Thursday, noon. Queen Recovered. Montgomery's Death Confirmed. Extensive Colliery Strikes in England and Wales. Probable Dissolution French Assembly

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 October 1871 · page 4

BY the arrival of the City of Melbourne, from San Francisco, we are in possession of English News to September 13…

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European Extracts. Fearful Colliery Explosion at Wigan

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 9 November 1871 · page 4

ABOUT 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning morning a colliery explosion, the full effect of which it is impossible to state at the time of writing, occurred at Messrs…

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