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The Biggest Ever Gold-mining Swindle in the Colonies

The Biggest Ever Gold-mining Swindle in the Colonies PDF Author: John Peach
Publisher: John Peach, www.peachbooksales.com
ISBN: 1876819774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 591

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Book Description
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.