Australia Since the Camera, Volumes 1-3Cheshire, 1972 - History |
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... diggers lit cigars with banknotes or munched them between slices of bread . A bottle of English beer cost six shillings , a temporary Australian wife ' , 1 / 6d . By the end of 1851 , gold worth nearly £ 9,000,000 had been found in ...
... diggers lit cigars with banknotes or munched them between slices of bread . A bottle of English beer cost six shillings , a temporary Australian wife ' , 1 / 6d . By the end of 1851 , gold worth nearly £ 9,000,000 had been found in ...
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... digger were less than £ 2 a week . Even more than they resented the Chinese , the diggers resented the Government's imposition of a licence fee . ( Originally 30 / - a month , it was raised to £ 3 . ) They had good reasons for resent ...
... digger were less than £ 2 a week . Even more than they resented the Chinese , the diggers resented the Government's imposition of a licence fee . ( Originally 30 / - a month , it was raised to £ 3 . ) They had good reasons for resent ...
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... Digger's Rest ' ; The diggers on the Lachlan ; the huts of Further West ; Some twenty thousand exiles who sailed for weal or woe : The bravest hearts of twenty lands will wait for Cobb and Co. The morning star has vanished , the frost ...
... Digger's Rest ' ; The diggers on the Lachlan ; the huts of Further West ; Some twenty thousand exiles who sailed for weal or woe : The bravest hearts of twenty lands will wait for Cobb and Co. The morning star has vanished , the frost ...
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