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Mining & the mines, 1873

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Riot in a Gold Field

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 1 January 1873 · page 4

THE Gipps Land Times, 21st December, reports that confusion worse confounded prevails at the newly discovered diggings on Turton's Creek, and law and order are for the…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1873 · page 6

AN explosion of gas took place on Monday afternoon at the extensive colliery of Messrs. William Ackroyd Brothers, at Morley, a small town situated midway…

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Mining Progress Report. Friday, January 3rd, 1873

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1873 · page 3

GREAT SOUTHERN G.M. Co., Gundagai.—Work at the south shaft and tunnel has been stopped during the holidays, until yesterday, when the men in the south shaft started…

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Mining Progress Report. Friday, January 17th, 1873

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1873 · page 3

GREAT SOUTHERN G.M. Co., Gundagai.—The work at the mine is progressing satisfactorily, and the contractors at the tunnel are making good headway. Tho contractors for…

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Mining Progress Reports. Friday, January 24th, 1873

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 3

AMOS and Co's. CLAIM, Adelong.—This claim has three principal shafts, which for convenience will number, 1, 2, and 3. No. 1 adjoins Williams's G.M. Co., and is 320…

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Old Re[?] Gold Mining Company, Adelong (Limited.)

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1873 · page 3

Report of the Directors, presented at the second half-yearly General Meeting held on January 24th, 1873, at the Office of the Company, Tumut-street, Adelong…

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Mining Manager's Report. To the Directors and Shareholders of the Adelong United Gold Mining Company, (Limited.)

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1873 · page 3

GENTLEMAN,—The works carried on at your mine for the past half-year as follows:—The erection of the Company's plant, consisting og pumping and winding engines pumps, poppet legs,…

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Mining Manager's Report

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1873 · page 3

To the Directors and, Shareholders of the Old Reef Mining Company, Adelong. GENTLEMEN,—During the last six months, the Main Southern shaft of the Company's lease has been carried…

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Mining Reports. Adelong United G.m. Company, (Limited.)

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1873 · page 3

REPORT of the Directors, presented at the half-yearly General Meeting, held on Wednesday, January, 22nd, 1873, at the Office of the Company, Tumut-street, Adelong…

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Mining Manager's Report

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1873 · page 3

To the Directors and Shareholders of the Crown of Old Reef Gold Mining Company, Adelong. GENTLEMEN,—Since taking charge of the Company's works on August 19th, 1372, 193 tons of quartz have…

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Mining Progress Reports. Friday, February 7th, 1873

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1873 · page 3

GREAT SOUTHERN G.M. Co., Johnson's Hill, Gundagai.—The men in the south shaft are raising some very good stone; the gold is a good deal coarser, and a great quantity of…

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Mining Reports. Crown of Old Reef. G. M. Company, (Limited.)

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1873 · page 3

Report of the Directors presented at the first Half-yearly General Meeting held at Mr. Cowan's Pride of Galway Hotel, on Wednesday, 29th January, 1873…

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The Romance of the Mine

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 15 February 1873 · page 4

SOME twelve or fifteen years since, a party of men, in their search for gold amongst the King Parrot Creek ranges, within about a dozen miles of Seymour, come across a vein…

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Mining Progress Reports. Friday, February 20th, 1873

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 22 February 1873 · page 3

GREAT SOUTHERN G.M. Co., Johnson's Hill, Gundagai.—The works in the south shaft and tunnels are progressing satisfactorily. The work about the machinery is being…

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Fatal Accidents at the Newcastle Collieries

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 1 March 1873 · page 3

"YESTERDAY" says the Newcastle Chronicle of Tueday, February I8; "was a day fraught with-accidents at two of our coal-mines, both of which ended fatally. The first occurred at the B pit, Wallsend…

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Mining Progress Reports. Friday, February 28th, 1873

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 1 March 1873 · page 2

GREAT SOUTHERN G.M. Company, Gundagai.—The men in the south shaft are still sinking on the edge of the dyke and will when six feet deeper put in an opening set, so as to…

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The Old Gold Beads

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1873 · page 6

TILLY HASLET went to town one bright spring day to learn dreas-making. She never returned again. Perhaps she was too pretty to be trusted alone in the great city;…

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Mining Progress Reports. Friday, March 147th, 1873

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1873 · page 2

GREAT SOUTHERN G.M. Co., Gundagai.—The contractors in south shaft are busy squaring down for tram and will timber up next week. The contractors at the tunnel are…

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Substitute for Coal

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 22 March 1873 · page 4

An important discovery (says the 'Home News') has been made within the past month by Signor Ferrero, an amateur chemist, who for many years has made a special study of…

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Mining Report. Wheal Unity G.m. Co., Adelong

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 22 March 1873 · page 3

The Directors of the Wheal Unity Gold Mining Company, Adelong, have re-ceived the following report from the Mining Manager…

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