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Page 75
... thousand feet to the undulating scrub country , where the Southern Ocean lay low in the west , and the chiselled peaks from Sedgwick to Jukes were lost in passing mists to the east . Five horses , plodding single file , dragged four ...
... thousand feet to the undulating scrub country , where the Southern Ocean lay low in the west , and the chiselled peaks from Sedgwick to Jukes were lost in passing mists to the east . Five horses , plodding single file , dragged four ...
Page 79
... thousand tons a day for thirty years . Five months later the Zeehan and Dundas Herald wrote : ' It is the greatest mining property known of to - day in the Australias , and will , ere another year or two , stand pre - eminent as the ...
... thousand tons a day for thirty years . Five months later the Zeehan and Dundas Herald wrote : ' It is the greatest mining property known of to - day in the Australias , and will , ere another year or two , stand pre - eminent as the ...
Page 95
... thousand packed the theatre , and at 2 p.m. on Saturday a special train packed with playgoers steamed out of Queenstown on the first stage of the long journey to Zeehan . They reached the Gaiety just before 8 o'clock , watched the drama ...
... thousand packed the theatre , and at 2 p.m. on Saturday a special train packed with playgoers steamed out of Queenstown on the first stage of the long journey to Zeehan . They reached the Gaiety just before 8 o'clock , watched the drama ...
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A Silver Lining | 6 |
gorge 1896 | 39 |
Miners gathered at the mouth of the bonanza tunnel | 74 |
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