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Southern Highlands · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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Gold Dust

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 29 November 1893 · page 2

WHAT hardships men will endure in search of gold is well illustrated by the tales coming to hand from Western Australia. The following is from the…

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BREVIA. Moss Vale Colliery

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 December 1893 · page 4

Powerful syndicate to be formed. Most approved machinery arrived and is now being fixed. The Legislative Council passed the Bank Notes…

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Moss Vale Colliery Company. Hunter-street, Sydney to the Syndicate Moss Vale Colliery Company

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 December 1893 · page 2

Gentlemen,—Enclosed you will find my report (as advised by your company) upon the colliery plant now landed and erected for inspection Should you desire I shall be…

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Gold Mine in an Orchid

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 5

Great personages will go far upon the chance of buying a Cypripedium insigne Sanderoe, and carry a long purse with them (writes the London Evening Standard). The…

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Coolgardie Gold Fields

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 4

Mr. Nathan, storekeeper, of Moss Vale, has just received a letter dated Nov. 6th from a friend of his at Coolgardie, and has kindly allowed us to publish several extracts from…

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Moss Vale Colliery

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 4

which has created some little stir the last few weeks, the enterprising proprietors L. SAMUEL AND CO., inform us that the output, especially…

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In White and Gold

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 2

White and gold effects were never more of a rage than at present. Quaist and curious pieces of furnIture abound in all well regulated drawing-rooms, no longer…

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