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... Queensland goldmen who wanted capital for their mines . 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 ...
... Queensland goldmen who wanted capital for their mines . 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 ...
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... Queensland saw them ride through . The little port of Borroloola , a few iron buildings on a crocodile river near the Gulf of Carpentaria , provisioned them with potatoes and painkiller . The police magistrate counted hundreds go- ing ...
... Queensland saw them ride through . The little port of Borroloola , a few iron buildings on a crocodile river near the Gulf of Carpentaria , provisioned them with potatoes and painkiller . The police magistrate counted hundreds go- ing ...
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... QUEENSLAND In the Queensland Parliamentary Papers is the vital royal commission on ' The Laws Relating to Mining for Gold and Other Minerals , etc. ' ( 1897 ) which examined 139 witnesses from Queensland mining on all phases of the ...
... QUEENSLAND In the Queensland Parliamentary Papers is the vital royal commission on ' The Laws Relating to Mining for Gold and Other Minerals , etc. ' ( 1897 ) which examined 139 witnesses from Queensland mining on all phases of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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