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  2. THE TRANSITION TO QUARTZ MINING.

    In the month of November, 1807, amongst the 25,000 persons who had made their distinguishing marks on the new goldfield may be mentioned ...

    Article : 244 words
  3. [?]collections of the Bush.

    [?]s often ask me to tell [?] some of my experiences [?]iul life in Queensland. I [?] better way will be to write ...

    Article : 2,951 words
  4. Early Gympie Incidents.

    A pioneer prospector supplies the following interesting sketch of events prior to the discovery of Gympie, and also of the first twelve months ...

    Article : 357 words
  5. A FEW JUBILEE REMINISCENCES.

    Incidents began to occur in the month of October. The first man died without any identification disc. The body was found underneath a ...

    Article : 689 words
  6. THE OLDER DAYS.

    The clarion of the jubilee trumpets are sounding over Gympie, the city of gold. Old Gympieites at home and abroad will be looking ...

    Article : 1,338 words
  7. [?]RLY PIONEERS.

    [?] Beatley, who resides with [?]hter, Mrs. J. Metcalfe, on [?]land, was one of the early [?] on the goldfield, reaching ...

    Article : 367 words
  8. THE LONE DIGGER, JAS. NASH.

    There was one man on the field more remarkable than the rest. He lived by himself alone on a solitary hill, and never associated with ...

    Article : 240 words
  9. SHOWING THE FIRST SPECIMENS.

    It was impossible to make a public exhibition of the specimens for want of glass to protect them—no such thing had yet arrived on the new ...

    Article : 256 words
  10. FIRST GYMPIE GOLD IN BRISBANE.

    We got the shock of our lives at 10 o'clock in the morning when we decided to stroll along Queen street. T[?]our astonishment we saw a black ...

    Article : 366 words
  11. HOW NANANGO DIGGINGS STARTED.

    The jubilee story of these events must now commence. Early in the year 1867, the writer and two others arrived in Brisbane, having just ...

    Article : 822 words
  12. OPENING UP THE ONE MILE.

    The three brothers Smith and another were mudlarking near the Deep Creek, but having the same surface indications as the Pollocks they did ...

    Article : 212 words
  13. THE DISCOVERY REPORTED.

    A report came down from Maryborough sho[?]ly afterwards to say that a man fined named Nash had applied for a gold[?]cim at a place called ...

    Article : 161 words
  14. [?]n of Barcaldine.

    [?] running into Barcal[?] of which the residents [?]roud (writes a traveller [?]ckhampton "Balletin"). ...

    Article : 263 words
  15. The Press Fifty Years Ago and More.

    In the "Courier" of Saturday, October the 6th, and Ipswich res[?]rent signing himself "B.J.T." writes:—"Under above caption, Mr. George ...

    Article : 963 words
  16. HOISTING THE RED FLAG.

    We had no Queensland mining regulations in those days, but worked under the 1859 New South Wales law, which made it compulsory for ...

    Article : 466 words
  17. Commonwealth Liberty Loan.

    It is expected that everyone who has the means or the resources which can be converted, will not show a moment's hesitation in ...

    Article : 484 words
  18. TH[?]USH BEGINS.

    In the [?]ing month, the town of Brisbane [?]mbled a hive of bees at swarm time, pushing and shoving. Iers, parsons, doctors, ...

    Article : 197 words
  19. HUMOROUS COURT INCIDENTS.

    The Magistrates' Court would open at the bark and calico humpy known as the Police Court. The same official presided. (One of the ...

    Article : 355 words
  20. THE [?] NUGGET.

    [?] happened to [?]urnace heat. A [?] scab inspector [?]rthed one piece ...

    Article : 167 words
  21. COMMISSIONERS' COURTS.

    Not the least interesting features of those days were to be found in the three Commissioners' Courts. Boundary pegging and legal marking ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 645 words
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