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Page 61
... Australian banks and building societies . Mil- lions of pounds in Scottish savings had been lost or frozen in the Australian bank crash of that year and Knox found that " utter distrust and repugnance of anything Australian was most ...
... Australian banks and building societies . Mil- lions of pounds in Scottish savings had been lost or frozen in the Australian bank crash of that year and Knox found that " utter distrust and repugnance of anything Australian was most ...
Page 97
... Australian gold mines . They were welcomed with open arms and showered with sovereigns . It was the golden age of the Australian promoter . Crotty saw the sun - tanned promoters and prospectors board the mail steamer at Albany , the ...
... Australian gold mines . They were welcomed with open arms and showered with sovereigns . It was the golden age of the Australian promoter . Crotty saw the sun - tanned promoters and prospectors board the mail steamer at Albany , the ...
Page 164
... Australian gain did not end here . In 1897-98 , when John Bull began to fancy Lyell as the coming copperfield , the price of Lyell shares soared and thousands of Australians were enticed into selling their shares to British buyers ...
... Australian gain did not end here . In 1897-98 , when John Bull began to fancy Lyell as the coming copperfield , the price of Lyell shares soared and thousands of Australians were enticed into selling their shares to British buyers ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill cent copper company's Comstock copper cost Creek Crotty diggers dividends Dixon drill Dundas Eldon Ranges Emu Bay engineer feet field fire furnaces gold Gormanston gossan hauled Heemskirk Hercules Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later Launceston lease Linda Valley lode London Lyell Copper Lyell directors Lyell Mining Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain Murray North Lyell pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port price of copper profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen River Queenstown rail rich rock Rosebery Schlapp shaft shareholders ship silver smelters smelting smoke South Sticht stope Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis timber tons town track tram Trent Trial Harbour tunnel union Victorian Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc