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Page 205
In 1889 at last the little three - feet gauge crept up to Pine Creek . For the gala opening of the trans - continental , Mr Langdon Parsons named the day . The Iron Horse ! There it stood in the railway yards in a triumphal arch of ...
In 1889 at last the little three - feet gauge crept up to Pine Creek . For the gala opening of the trans - continental , Mr Langdon Parsons named the day . The Iron Horse ! There it stood in the railway yards in a triumphal arch of ...
Page 258
There were two women in the rush - Mrs May Brown , six hundred and fifty miles in a buggy from Pine Creek ; Mrs Christina Gordon , the Grand Old Lady of Darwin , who travelled with her husband , his twin brother and her two young sons ...
There were two women in the rush - Mrs May Brown , six hundred and fifty miles in a buggy from Pine Creek ; Mrs Christina Gordon , the Grand Old Lady of Darwin , who travelled with her husband , his twin brother and her two young sons ...
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When rich deposits of wolfram were unearthed near Pine Creek , May " married the mine " . She worked it herself with ninety - five Chinamen , fortyfive miles from the nearest neighbour , sixty feet down in the earth with the coolies ...
When rich deposits of wolfram were unearthed near Pine Creek , May " married the mine " . She worked it herself with ninety - five Chinamen , fortyfive miles from the nearest neighbour , sixty feet down in the earth with the coolies ...
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LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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