THE principal event of the week in mining matters is no doubt the completion of the contract undertaken by Mr. Ashton, the proprietor of the diamond drill, to put down a bore in the ...
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Article : 2,589 wordsTHE Aberdeen Weekly Journal, a paper published in the centre of the largest cattle-raising county in the United Kingdom, devotes an article, at the close of the agricultural show ...
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Article : 303 wordsSIR,—Farmers passing down Queen-street lately may have observed in the windows of Messrs. Hockings the head of a sunflower full in seed, and grown by Mr, Jost. ...
Article : 597 wordsSIR,—With the exception of the company's reef there is not a payable claim on this field. One of the best of them is that taken up by Ashman and party. They started work in ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 11 Jun 1879, Page 6
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