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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1851

199 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 10 of 10

Gold News

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 2

The escort from Mount Alexander brought into town yesterday no less than 10,428 onces of gold and it is stated that something like 6,000 ounces more had to be left…

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The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit." Saturday, December 13, 1851 Local Intelligence. Lecture on the Aspects of the Age

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 4

A lecture on the Aspects of the Ago was delivered on Wednesday evening by the Kev. D. Blair. About one hundred persons attended. The audience was very respectable, and they listened to…

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The Arrival of the Gold in England

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 December 1851 · page 3

It will be remembered by many of our readers that some weeks before the public announcement of the fact that gold was being found in large quantities at…

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Original Correspondence. Mission to the Turon. the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 December 1851 · page 4

SIR,—Perhaps you will be good enough to allow 3 space, in your valuable paper for a few remarks a my mission to the Turon. When I arrived at the diggings I was cordially…

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The Bathurst Free Press and Minig Journal. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit." Wednesday, December 17, 1851. Mining Intelligence

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 December 1851 · page 2

The population of the Turon diggings is rapidly decreasing from three causes—the flooding of the creek by occasional thunder-storms—the natural and commendable tendency homewards of the…

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The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalsbit." Saturday, December 20, 1851. the Miners' Petition and the Gold Regulations

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 December 1851 · page 4

IT appears from an advertisement in another column that the Turon gold diggers are but ill satisfied at the unceremonious treatment of their petition in the legislature, and that a…

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Gold News. Our Gold News in England

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 December 1851 · page 3

The announcement in yesterday's Herald that the news of our gold, discovery, had not reached England was premature. The advices by the Vimeira's mail prove that the…

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Mining Intelligence. Ophir

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 December 1851 · page 4

Ophir, formerly so busy and stirring a place, is now exceedingly quiet, and affords little or no matter for a newspaper correspondent who is not gifted with a fertile imagination…

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Mining Intelligence. Wentworth Diggings

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 December 1851 · page 3

Mr. Daniels, I understand has lately been, employed prospecting the Wentworth estate at Frederick's Valley and has found three excellent points to commerce operations upon, and not…

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Mining Intelligence. Ophir

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 December 1851 · page 2

Accounts from Ophir still continue of a cheering character, so far as the yield of the precious metal is concerned, but there as at the Turon, the thunderstorms so unusually frequent during the present…

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The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalrdit." Wednesday, December 24, 1851. the Roads

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 December 1851 · page 2

AS OUR readers must ere now, be aware, the labours of the Select Committee appointed to report on the great leading thoroughfares of the Colony have for some time been…

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Briginal Correspondent. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. the Sabbath Day. " Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep It Holy."

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 December 1851 · page 2

SIR.—It may be enquired why we should specially remember the Sabbath? We will endeavour to show the reasonableness of this injunction. The anniversaries of great events have been kept by…

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Gold News. Forest Creek Diggings. December 8, 1851

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 December 1851 · page 3

In my last I had but little information to send, but this morning I spent most of my time, seeking out information respecting a report that I could not make up my mind to…

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The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. "Magna Est Yeritas Et Prevalebit." Saturday, December 27, 1851. the Past Session

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 December 1851 · page 4

His EXCELLENCY the Governor General has just discharged the gentlemen the Legislative Council from their attendance at Macquarie Street, and the most determined…

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Mining Intelligence. Ophir

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 December 1851 · page 2

Since my last I have little of importance to communicate, the approach of Christmas festivities having thrown something of a damper upon the industrial operations of the place…

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British Extracts. the Gold Discovery

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 December 1851 · page 2

The district of Australia in which we are informed a golden harvest, is to bo reaped, has received from the hand of Nature favours far more substantial than the questionable advantages…

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The Gold News in England

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 December 1851 · page 2

INDISPOSED as we are, and always shall be, to shirk the responsibility of our public acts, we have copied verbatim in another column a leading article from the Globe,…

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Arrival of the Gold Intelligence in England

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 December 1851 · page 3

It would be impossible to overrate the interest of the intelligence conveyed by the Sydney Morning Herald of the 20th May, and copied from that journal into [?] impression of this evening…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press, and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 December 1851 · page 2

SIR,—We the undersigned observe in the Sydney Morning Herald, of the 24th instant, in a speech made by Mr. Mort with reference to Mr. Hargraves' Testimonial, the following sentence,…

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Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press, and Mining Journal. Sabbath Desecration

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 December 1851 · page 2

SIR,—As I am aware your columns are ever open for the defence of public good and exposure of immorality in its varied grades, may I ask the favor of your inserting the following as an…

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