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Mining & the mines, 1859

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Original Correspondence. Life Assurance. To the Editor of the Adelong Mining Journal

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 28 October 1859 · page 6

SIR--I beg to call your attention to the want of a system of life assurance on the mines generally. The Mutual Provident Society is. I believe. one of the most successful…

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To the Editor of the Adelong Mining Journal

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 4 November 1859 · page 6

SIR--Will you allow me, through the medium of your influential journal, to call the attention of that portion of the public who take an interest, in the moral well-being of…

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Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Adelong Mining Journal

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 4 November 1859 · page 6

SIR--Allow me, through the medium of your journal, to bring a growing evil before the public notice; the evil that I speak of is that of grog-selling and gambling-houses in…

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Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Adelong Mining Journal

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 4 November 1859 · page 4

SIR--It has been announced that this evening (Friday), there is to be an adjourned public meeting held, to endeavour to obtain the support of the people of Adelong to…

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Original Correspondence. Audi Alteram Partem. To the Editor of the Adelong Mining Journal

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 11 November 1859 · page 4

Sir,--In your issue of last week appeared two letters, written respecting secret selling on the Reef, the one bearing the interested signature of "A Publican."…

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Miscellaneous Productiveness of Gold

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 18 November 1859 · page 2

The increase of gold is wall unknown to arise from California and australia but when this new production first noticed it was long doubtful…

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To the Editor of the Adelong Mining Journal

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 25 November 1859 · page 3

SIR --That the worst cause will always find some advocates, is a fact of which it needs not the eloquent productions of "Philanthropos " and "Reefer" to prove the,truth. Still…

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Vivo Spe. To the Editor of the Adelong Mining Journal

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 25 November 1859 · page 3

SIR --I always peruse your columns with much pleasure, the matter they contain being generally of a high class character, but I was rather surprised to find in your issue of last…

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Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Adelong Mining Journal

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 2 December 1859 · page 4

SIR,--I have proved that "whistling before you are out of the wood," is a dangerous experiment--up to yesterday--cherishing the hope of escaping the usual penalty attached…

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Local Mining News

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 9 December 1859 · page 4

Some Oracle whom it would the unjust to appose is any resident here are pronounce through the [?] the [?] Reef is nearly exhausted. It [?]…

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Intelligence. Cry Gold Fields. [?] Wood

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 9 December 1859 · page 2

[?] from these diggings brought [?]…

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Colonial Mining News. Horthern Gold Fields

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 16 December 1859 · page 2

By the "Yarra Yaraa" from Queensland, and the lllalong from the Hunter, 28olo. ozs, were deposited in the Sydney Mint, as the aseort retaras from the above diggings. To this…

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Southern Gold Fields

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 16 December 1859 · page 2

The Braidwood papers eiult in the fact that their escort is weekly increasing, amounting to 2,785 osa., being the largest that has ever left. There is but little doubt that the…

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Melbourne Mining News. Avoca

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 16 December 1859 · page 2

One of those rashes that remind us of the palmy days of the Victorian diggings, has occurred in the neighbourhood of Avoca this last week. A spot that a short time ago was…

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Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Adelong Mining Journal

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 16 December 1859 · page 4

SIR,--In the mining intelligence of your last week's issue, appeared some very commendatory remarks about the Chinese cooperative system. John Bull is therein…

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Colonial Mining News. Southern Gold Fields

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 30 December 1859 · page 2

BRAIDWOOD—We learn by the papers that the last escort conveyed as the united produce of these gold fields, 8003 [?] 7 dwts. 5 grs., and they seem to state that, but for the…

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. Estern Gold Fields

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 30 December 1859 · page 2

The [?] returns deposited in the Mint, Sky produce of these helds 2516 grs. Greek.--This spot, famous in the…

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Northern Gold Fields

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 30 December 1859 · page 2

The amount received by escort last week was 3118 ozs. 17 dwts. 19 grs. TIMBABRA.-- The only reliable intelligence to be procured respecting these diggings, or…

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