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Riverina · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1871

7 stories in Riverina's papers

Pay-day in a Copper Mining Township

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 11 March 1871 · page 4

THE Peak Downs Telegram contains the subjoined amusing sketch of the proceedings in a mining township on payday:—Have you ever been in…

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A Visit to the Wynyard Gold Mining Company's Claim, at Adelong

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1871 · page 2

JULY 12TH.—I believe it will bo interesting to many of your renders to bear some account of the progress made by the Wynyard Gold-mining Company, of which Mr. A. D. Shepard…

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Bank Manager Committed for Embezzlement. (From the Mining Record.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 15 July 1871 · page 2

ON Tuesday the 4th. instant, Robert Scott, manager of the Grenfell branch of the Bank of New South Wales, wag brought before the court, charged with embezzling a sum of…

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The New Land Bill. a Bill to Amend and Consolidate the Acts Relating to the Occupation and Alienation of Crown Lands. (Continued from last issue.) Mineral Leases Other Than Gold

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 25 November 1871 · page 4

Leases for mining purposes other than gold milling how granted and cancelled. 26. The Governor with the advice aforesaid may grant leases of Crown…

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Stock at of the Gold-fields' Commission. (From the Empire.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 4

The THE long-looked-for report of the royal commission; appointed on the 6th June, 1870, to inquire into the working of the present Gold-Fields Act and…

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Report of the Gold-fields Commission

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 4

THE long-looked for report of the royal commission, appointed on jthe 6th June, 1870, to inquire into the working of the present Gold-Fields Act and Regulations, and into the best…

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Shocking Colliery Fatality at Dudley

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 30 December 1871 · page 2

On October 25, a shocking colliery fatality occurred at Lord Dudley's limestone pits, at the foot of the Dudley Castle Hill. Four men and a boy, named Hemmings, Edwards,…

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