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The Biggest Ever Mining Swindle in the Colonies Hardcover - 2008

by Peach, John Robert


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  • Title The Biggest Ever Mining Swindle in the Colonies
  • Author Peach, John Robert
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Limited. Special
  • Publisher Interactive Publications, Carindale
  • Date 2008
  • ISBN 9781876819774
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The Biggest Ever Mining Swindle in the Colonies

by Peach, John Robert

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Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. top & bottom of spine bumped. Errata sheet pasted after p. 572.
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Limited. Special edition.
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781876819774 / 1876819774
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Carindale: Interactive Press Australia. 2008. Limited. Special edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. top & bottom of spine bumped. Errata sheet pasted after p. 572.. 572 pp., illustrations, map, index. . Robert Philps, later a Minister for Mines and a Queensland Premier, called it the biggest ever mining swindle in the Colonies. He for one certainly knew, because Robert Ross himself sold Philps a swag of the Company shares in early 1888. This is the true story of multiple gold frauds by Robert Ross near Yeppoon Queensland, and a dubious Sydney Company involving many leading identities now well known in our history. Some made fortunes almost overnight and some ended up mortally wounded. The Supreme Court sessions featured most of the leading silks in the Colony and even our later first Prime Minister Edmund Barton and all the sworn evidence and verdicts were meticulously recorded and then first sealed under Statute for 30 years. Played out for over four years without an ounce of… Read More
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$299.99
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