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Mining & the mines, 1874

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The Future Fate of the Gold Coast

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 22 July 1874 · page 4

Mr. Holms has done the country a great service by advocating the policy of a final retreat from the Gold Coast. He is not afraid of his convictions, he always speaks plain…

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A New Chum in a Gold Mine

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 29 August 1874 · page 4

Some of the Adelong miners, who work underground—us moles do—and afterwards come above ground to enjoy themselves—as moles do not—may remember how a local…

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Story of a New Zealand Mine

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 3 October 1874 · page 5

WE have board many curious stories of the vici[?] of gold mining—these ups and downs of fortune which every man must inevitably suffer if he enters upon mining…

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The First Mining Appeal Case

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1874 · page 4

The first mining appeal case under the Mining Act of 1874 (sayz the ' S. M. Herald') after passing through the Warden's Court and the District, has at last stuck fast at the very…

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The Victorian Gold-fields

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 21 October 1874 · page 6

THE mining industry has been steadily pursued on the various goldfields of the colony during the past month, with the ordinary fair returns, so far as can be…

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To the Electors of the Southern Gold Fields

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 19 December 1874 · page 4

GENTLEMEN,—A general election being about to take place, I again offer myself as a candidate for your suffrages. I think it is matter for regret that the Governor should have been advised to dissolve…

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