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Article : 1,241 wordsSIR,—I was very glad to see intimated in your Lainceston correspondent's letter that a project was on foot to crect a powerful pumping plant at Beaconsfield to drain the mines on the Tasmania line of reof. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 19 May 1881, Page 3
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