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... Charters Towers was Queensland's great gold town in 1886 and when the band played Saturday nights in the warm air the streets were dusty with strolling people and rowdy with the cries of brokers and piemen . Nine thousand lived on the ...
... Charters Towers was Queensland's great gold town in 1886 and when the band played Saturday nights in the warm air the streets were dusty with strolling people and rowdy with the cries of brokers and piemen . Nine thousand lived on the ...
Page 102
... Charters Towers promoters took their leases to London and sold worthless mines for huge sums . Twenty - seven Queensland mines were floated in London before the boom crumpled in 1887 . Charters Towers was flushed with the money that ...
... Charters Towers promoters took their leases to London and sold worthless mines for huge sums . Twenty - seven Queensland mines were floated in London before the boom crumpled in 1887 . Charters Towers was flushed with the money that ...
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... Charters Towers gold was exhibited to thousands in London , and Englishmen invested heavily in its mines . Three hundred miles north - west of Charters Towers , in the heat of January 1886 , Croydon was proclaimed a goldfield by the ...
... Charters Towers gold was exhibited to thousands in London , and Englishmen invested heavily in its mines . Three hundred miles north - west of Charters Towers , in the heat of January 1886 , Croydon was proclaimed a goldfield by the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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