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Page 45
... sold to a Dunolly bank for the princely sum of £ 9,436 . Named the Welcome Stranger , it was prob- ably the largest recorded nugget in the world . The Welcome Stranger had been preceded by the Welcome Nugget , a dazzling lump of 2,217 ...
... sold to a Dunolly bank for the princely sum of £ 9,436 . Named the Welcome Stranger , it was prob- ably the largest recorded nugget in the world . The Welcome Stranger had been preceded by the Welcome Nugget , a dazzling lump of 2,217 ...
Page 81
... sold out for £ 3,000 to the Llanberris Company . As the years passed the Learmonths were perturbed to see the Llanberris win £ 250,000 of gold - much of it from the mine they had sold . Perhaps for that reason they clung to their second ...
... sold out for £ 3,000 to the Llanberris Company . As the years passed the Learmonths were perturbed to see the Llanberris win £ 250,000 of gold - much of it from the mine they had sold . Perhaps for that reason they clung to their second ...
Page 148
... sold . A similar parcel of shares was offered in Sydney and sold more slowly , and Melbourne's allotment of shares was nearly shunned . At last , in August 1885 , the B.H.P. was floated and registered , a name amongst hundreds in the ...
... sold . A similar parcel of shares was offered in Sydney and sold more slowly , and Melbourne's allotment of shares was nearly shunned . At last , in August 1885 , the B.H.P. was floated and registered , a name amongst hundreds in the ...
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