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  • ...ow, measured gait, striking his breast with his pistol, the blows bringing out strange metallic sounds, it is no wonder that those nearest him were startl ...isodes relating to the early history of country towns, and a great deal of out-of-the-way information respecting administration and social life has been h
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  • ...iners had opened and partially worked a claim, which we afterwards wrought out. After we had begun, another party opened a claim four miles below us, and ..., did not work it, though one of my mates afterwards accompanied the party out who did, and I, unavled? to go myself, gave them every information in my po
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  • ...for prospecting quartz has been formed, and one or two private parties are out for the same purpose. ...opulation is as follows:- Alluvial miners, 700: quartz, 474. Chinese, 560. Out of 21 machines and engines, 10 are idle. On Mead s Reef, the greater number
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  • ..., but it was not until the following year that a written sanction was made out by the commissioner, which was dated, not from the period of the original g ...the water diverted to a particular claim or locality, which, being worker out, the applicant next on the roster held the right under similar conditions.
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  • ...he other, until the creeks and their immediate banks were gradually worked out. ...been pre-eminently the case: when the original bed of the river was worked out there were no means of working the adjacent banks without bringing the wate
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  • ...in the course of working; but many of the claims are only partially worked out, and will probably be again taken up.
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  • ...le should complain of the scarcity of money, when it is impossible to wash out our only staple production. A heavy fall of rain is a "consummation de
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  • I would take this opportunity of respectfully pointing out the necessity for the completion of a half-inch mining and physical map, an
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  • ...is by mutual forbearance and concession that the machine practically works out the great objects of the constitution .. . It is part of our duty to origin
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  • ...ture to support it, for the land through which it passes has mostly passed out of the control of the Government into private hands. The land in the Benall
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  • ...hout hope of some brilliant future to the place. Seventy reefs were pegged out almost within as many hours, two crushing machines erected, several good cr ...and landed at Bon's paddock instead of Godfrey's Creek, about three miles out of the way. Returning to the other landlord at Merton, we found in him an o
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  • ...t, it is certain that no mining difficulty need, be experienced in working out any of the areas at present tested, and shafts may anywhere be readily sunk
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  • ...removed, a man armed with a double barrelled gun and two revolvers stepped out from the side of the, road, and ordered him to "bail up." The dri ...the Forest, with two ounces of gold in his possession, was ordered to turn out his trousers and vest pockets, but escaped without further scrutiny, his tr
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  • ...l on Tuesday last near; the Devil's River. He took one of the shaft horses out of the coach, and searched the mail bags. Whilst in the act of doing this a
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  • ...able by hydraulic power when required. If the company decline to be bought out of the way, if local patriotism has no weight against pocket, and, "th ...see no real cause for this, except superior smartness and activity. Let us look at the tariffs and duties. The ad valorem duty of New South Wales is five p
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  • ...'s brother. The two then attacked Archdeacon, and nearly killed him. He is out of danger, but has got a frightful scalp wound. The police station has been
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  • ...his clothes gave way, and he bolted. I followed him, and took my revolver out of the case, and told him three times to stand, or I would shoot him. I pre
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  • ...virtue of a writ of habeas. In this case, at all events, when rogues fall out honest people are likely to come by their own. Kelly informs on Power; is h
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  • ...of stones are worked. The construction of this model structure was carried out under the supervision of Mr '''Bowden''', who has now in charge of the mill
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  • .... This completed our morning's work, and in the afternoon buggies were got out, and your correspondent had a seat in Mr James Shackles' buggy, to which we ...essed as if for market. All the sheep are here cut up, and the bones taken out.
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