Colonial Extracts. Social Consequences of the Gold Discovery
The discovery of gold, first at Ballan and afterwards at Mount Alexander, cause a simultaneous rush towards those locat[?]ties, which not only emptied our…
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Mining & the mines, 1852
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Mining Intelligence
GILMANDYKE DIGGINGS.—We paid a visit to the new diggings on the Gimandyke creek a few days age, and found some fifty or sixty miners at work, consisting principally of the neighbours…
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SIR.—I think you must have been under some misapprehension respecting the cause of the detention of the Turon mail on Saturday evening last. The Chashire and Clear Creeks were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit." Saturday, March 27, 1852. the Gold Diggers' Petition
THE disastrous consequences of the floods which have latterly been so frequent upon the Turon have not only dispirited numbers of bed-claimants but have generated a strong feeling of…
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To estimate the pecuniary loss to the Turon diggers, of such floods as the last and the previous one is impossible, but some idea may be formed of it by taking a stroll along the river…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To the Editor of the Bathurst free Press and Mining Journal
SIR,—You will oblige me by withdrawing my name from the list of Stewards named for the "Clear Crock" races, and by informing the public, through your paper, that the person who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. National School
At a late meeting of the inhabitants of Bathurst, convened for the purpose of electing local patrons for our proposed National School, it was remarked by one of the gentlemen present, that…
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Tho creek still continues high, and there is therefore, little chance of doing any good at the bed claims. The diggers about Golden Point are at length beginning to turn their attention to dry…
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In reporting the results of my sales of gold during this week, I have the satisfaction to notice a steadiness of rates fully equal to the prices in last circular. All parcels of dust brought into…
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If, as Dr. Ward believes, a rich deposit of the precious metal will be found in the Fingal district, his name will for ever stand associated with the discovery as one…
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We are indebted, to Dr. Ward for the following communication, dated Fingal, 4th of March:— Things remain in statu quo as regards the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Buthurst Free Press and Mining Journal
Upon perusing the report of the Orange races which appeared in your paper of Saturday last, and the Sydney Morning Herald of an earlier date, I perceive that a charge is made against…
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On Monday night last tho Turon was visited by a very heavy thunder. The forked lightnings played almost incessantly, and…
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Steady rates have been maintained during the past week, tho market assuming a greater feature of firmness and consistency than at any former period since the opening of our mines…
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'A' short time age Mr. Stutchbury the Government Geologist paid a visit to the "wentworth Gold Field", and in consequence of the observations made by him with reference to the probable…
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Our intelligence from Tuena Creek is of a very encouraging character. Although fewer in number the diggers are certaily more prosperous than at any previous time, sad we believe a larger…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Buthurst Free Press and Mining Journal
SIR— A wet season has had the effect of driving a large number of miners from the Turon, where their enterprise and industry have been baffled by the repeated floods which swept that river…
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The following answer to the Petition recently addressed to his Excellency tho Governor-General, by the Turon miners praying that they would be permitted to register bed claims when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence To the Editor of the Bathurst Fret Press, and Mining Journal
SIR,—I wish to be informed through the columns of your paper, by what authority the enclosed market place in William street is rented as a paddock in which to graze cattle and horses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Intelligence. the Turon
Since the last floods, things are proceeding very flatly at the Turon. Great numbers have left for the Dirt Hole and Tambaroura Creeks, at which places the great body of the Turon…
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