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Mining & the mines, 1881

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Mining, &C. Temora, Monday. the Diamond Drill

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 30 July 1881 · page 6

The drill is again at work, the rubble quartz having been passed through by the sinking of a shaft. From the tenor of a paragraph in your last issue there appears…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, July 30.) ALLUVIAL

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 2 August 1881 · page 3

The various rushes, as they are incorrectly termed, which form a common topic on Temora, are simply a few scattered prospectors in search of gold, of which nothing…

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Mining, &C. Temora, Monday. MISCELLANEOUS

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 6 August 1881 · page 6

IT is a time-honoured custom to commence conversation by an allusion to the weather, and it is certainly a common topic on Temora. The reason is simple enough, viz., that the…

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Mining Memoranda. Temora Star, August 3:)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1881 · page 4

The example set by the shareholders of the Duke of York and Golden Belt claims in constructing a dam for their own use has been quickly followed by the holders of Nos. 2 and…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, August 10.) ALLUVIAL

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1881 · page 4

Murray's p.c., Lower Town, have bottomed their new shaft on the White lead 6ft. shallow, and are driving for deep ground. No. 1 north of Murray's are still…

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Mining, &C. Temora. Miscellaneous

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 August 1881 · page 1

A MAN, whose name is supposed to be Shea, a dealer in pigs, was found dead the other day at Junee. Mr. M'Carthy, of Temora, is going over in order, to identify the…

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Mining Memoranda. Temora

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 August 1881 · page 3

The banks to-day purchased gold largely. Nine tons and a half, from Homeward Bound Reef, Sebastopol, went 9oz. 16dwts. Gorman and parly finished washing 63[?] lo[?]ds, which…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, August 17.) ALLUVIAL

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 20 August 1881 · page 4

FINE warm days, and clear, frosty nights are not very promising signs of rain, so it is very satisfactory to know that the number of watershafts is increasing, and in course of time…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, August 20.) ALLUVIAL

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 25 August 1881 · page 4

The long-looked-for rain visited us on Wednesday; but, unfortunately, did not last long enough to do much good, still we must be satisfied with small mercies, as it has filled…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, August 24.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 August 1881 · page 1

AFTER many threatenings with very little result, we have at last experienced a really good downpour of rain, which is sufficient for all our…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, August 27.) ALLUVIAL

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1881 · page 2

No time has been lost by all the principal puddlers in getting their machines to work, and the town presents quite a lively appearance through the strings of horses and carts…

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Mining Appeal Court. Monday. Lewis V. Williams and Others

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 31 August 1881 · page 2

This was an appeal to reverse the verdict of Mr. Warden De Boos, Temora, on the grounds that the verdict was against both law and evidence…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, August 31.) ALLUVIAL

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1881 · page 3

ON resuming after a lapse of five months the duties of chronicling the doings of the miners on this goldfiel in these columns, the present writer cannot shut his eves to the patent, fact…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Herald, September 2.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 6 September 1881 · page 2

THE weather at present is favourable to puddling operations so far as carting is concerned but there has been such a scarcity of carters that many of the machines could not be…

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Mining Memoranda

The Temora Star · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 2

THE only noteworthy events affecting mining interests of a company wit a capital of £3000, in Sydney, for the purpose of the…

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The Temora Gazetteer. Mining Department

The Temora Star · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 4

Warden: chas, De Boos. Warden's Clerk: R. Zoach. Mining Reg[?]ar: H. Marguies. Mining Surveyor: W. Nash…

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Mining Memoranda

The Temora Star · Wednesday 14 September 1881 · page 3

The rain that set in on Saturday last came at the very nick of time to replenish many dams and reservoirs that had become exhausted, such as the Diorite, M'Intyre's…

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A New South Wales Gold-mining Company

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 September 1881 · page 3

THE Home News says:— "The Kiandra Gold Mining Company, county of Selwin, New South Wales, is announced with a capital of £150,000 in shares of £1,40,000 of which are taken by…

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Mining Memoranda

The Temora Star · Saturday 17 September 1881 · page 3

ON last Wednesday afternoon the town was electrified out of its chronic state of dulness into quite a fever of excitement fay the news that some extraordinary rich…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, September 14.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 17 September 1881 · page 1

THE rain that set in on Saturday last came at the very nick of time to replenish many dams and reservoirs that had become exhausted, such as the Diorite, McIntyre's, Clancy's…

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