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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bathurst |
 | | Bathurst (population in 1901, 9,223) was founded in 1824. |
 | | Owing to the hostility of the aboriginals and other causes, population filtered slowly into the rich Bathurst plains till the first paying goldfield was discovered in the district, in 1851. |
 | | In 1865 Bathurst, then part of the Diocese of Sydney, was made the cathedral centre of a new diocese, which extended from the River Murray to Queensland, and from the Blue Mountains to the border of South Australia. |
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