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Page 108
... land surveyed , then applied in the usual manner to pay the minimum price of £ 1 an acre . For a month the Government Gazette advertised the land and got no other applicants . For £ 80 the Crown sold land that yielded over £ 1 million ...
... land surveyed , then applied in the usual manner to pay the minimum price of £ 1 an acre . For a month the Government Gazette advertised the land and got no other applicants . For £ 80 the Crown sold land that yielded over £ 1 million ...
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... land for the pastoralist and mean land for the prospector . A blanket of earth and rubble covered the ancient rocks and minerak of Yorke Peninsula . Captain Walter Watson Hughes ran his sheep across the thigh of the leg of land . From ...
... land for the pastoralist and mean land for the prospector . A blanket of earth and rubble covered the ancient rocks and minerak of Yorke Peninsula . Captain Walter Watson Hughes ran his sheep across the thigh of the leg of land . From ...
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... land owned the gold . Anxiously the Morgans negotiated with Donald Gordon , who was overseer on a sheep run far west . They offered him a pound an acre , said nothing of the gold , and he gladly sold the land . Folklore says he was ...
... land owned the gold . Anxiously the Morgans negotiated with Donald Gordon , who was overseer on a sheep run far west . They offered him a pound an acre , said nothing of the gold , and he gladly sold the land . Folklore says he was ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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