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Lancashire, England

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Preston, Lancashire, England

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POETY

... REAT, NUGGET. Toil on, toil on, tho golden ngo, The ;oet's soorned fletion, las yet to come, and bear the cross O Labour's cruciflxioni. ro ae t for the nuggets found, Tho gold for which you've panted; if happiness remains nfiould. The rarcest nugget's wonted ...

Pickings from Punch

... how-low they stoop to' pick Up the auriferous 'metal), when his fingers closed-with' native quickness on those welcompe little nuggets. 'We are told, however, tbat' the quantity picked up is fi weight equal to no more than half-a-sovereign. :-msml. as the l ...

LOLA MONTES ON THE COMIC ASPECT OF FASHION

... some of the most striking vagaries of fashion at different periods, Lola Montes said we laughed at the savages for wearing nuggets of gold and other precious metals in their nostrils' but was the sight more ridiculous than the same thing when worn among ...

PRESTON EXHIBITION

... lead ore, eighty-five per cent. of which are metal. Mr. R. Lowe shows uncut sardonyx, jacinth, and ivory. Here are eleven nuggets of gold found at Ballarat, shown by Mr. George Blackburn, of Garstang. Mr. W. Clemesha, contributes some gold bearing quartz ...

VARIETIES

... work Rn towards the source of tle, strerat; the heaviest particles being, of course, carried the shortest distance. A large nugget is seldom floated down the stream. So it is in everything. Ascend, eontionally. towards the source. The pare gold of knowledge ...

LITERARY EXTRACT

... Councl-one of these illiterate o aluent vulgarians so often met with in a now country: 1; men asearthy, as rough, and-as rih as nuggets. The r- Bishop, startlad by the violent !anguage, pulled up, like gtooa diocesan, and said, My dear man, you shouldn't Ia ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... upon the heads of their slave boys. in Gamani, thle region to the north-west of the capital[, the ore is fouiid in large nuggets, sometinies weighing four pounds. The pits are sunkliiincfeet in tie red granite and grey granite, and the gold is highly ...

WIT AND HUMOUR

... with gold in the Ophir dis- trict. It has been found in the form of smallgrains in the Hunter and Maeleay districts, and a nugget weighing 268 grains was obtained from Wiseman's Creek with alluvial gold. The sand of the sea coast near Rihmond River is ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... interest, and the second and XEaST, Christian Charity and duty to wihI others.' visit tII 1The rough, knarled Australian nugget, though unsightly In expecti .form and surfce nevertheless contains as pure gold as the ele- o'clock gantly chased and burnished ...