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Page 56
... miners , perhaps thirty , and five soldiers . The troops wrecked the stockade and set fire to tents and fired on unarmed miners nearby , and by breakfast that Sunday morning the rebellion was bleeding . On Monday the miners ' funerals ...
... miners , perhaps thirty , and five soldiers . The troops wrecked the stockade and set fire to tents and fired on unarmed miners nearby , and by breakfast that Sunday morning the rebellion was bleeding . On Monday the miners ' funerals ...
Page 67
... miners who believed their miner's right entitled them to the gold on private land . Bland nervously watched the bullock teams hauling his boilers and heavy cast - iron machinery on to his ground . ' At this time very wild notions were ...
... miners who believed their miner's right entitled them to the gold on private land . Bland nervously watched the bullock teams hauling his boilers and heavy cast - iron machinery on to his ground . ' At this time very wild notions were ...
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... miners were dying from lung diseases for every miner killed in an accident . On the Western Australian goldfields the rising toll of tuber- culosis and silicosis was blamed on miners who had caught the diseases in Victorian goldfields ...
... miners were dying from lung diseases for every miner killed in an accident . On the Western Australian goldfields the rising toll of tuber- culosis and silicosis was blamed on miners who had caught the diseases in Victorian goldfields ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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