Mining Intelligence. the Turon
We have had one continued succession of gentle showers for the lust eight or nino days, which has had the effect of rising the river and put an and to digging operations in the bed for…
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Mining & the mines, 1855
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Gold Circular
A further, decline in price may be expected; There are few buyers at present rates, in fact, gold [?]st has gone up in price much higher than its actual value, the consequence is that several large…
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How easily is a noble spirit discerned From harsh and sulphurous matter that files out In contumelies, makes a noise and strikes." Ben Jonson…
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Sir,—My last was called forth by a report that the Colo Silver Ore was zinc, my object being to shew that all silver ores in slate contain sulphuret of zinc. Since then, however, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bathurst Free Press "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit." Saturday, June 2, 1855. Our Mining Progress
No new branch of industry was ever pursued under greater disadvantages than the copper mining pursuits of this district, nor was the existence of a new resource…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence [We do not identify ourselves with the opinions of our correspondents.] To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal
"Dear Author! Suit your topics to your strength, And ponder well your subject, and its length; Nor lift your load, before you're quito aware What weight your shoulders will, or cannot bear."…
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Mr. Khull's gold circular, May 26, is subjoined:— An alteration having taken place in the rate of exchange, viz. from ono to two premium, gold…
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Within the last few days, another rush has set in from Sofala and its neighbourhood and Wattle Flat, to Palmer's Oakey Creek, the exciting cause being, that a single individual had visited the…
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Sir,— The establishment of a Mechanic's School of Arts er a young men's mutual improvement association in Bathurst, has during the last few years been frequently brought under the notice…
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Sir ,— With your permission I should like to correct a few mistakes of the press in my letter of the second instant. In the lines of Ben Jonson, it should have been "stinks" instead of "strikes."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. [We do not identify ourselves with the opinions of our correspondents.] To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal
Sir.—It is now some time since [?]intruded myself upon your notice or that of the public; when I first did so, it was on a kindred subject to the one I now attempt to make known a few of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lost Gold Dust. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal
Sir,—Noticing in the Sydney Morning Herald of the 28th May last, a letter from a Dr. Collyer, giving an acconnt of his machine for saving the lost gold dust. I wish to offer a few remarks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence [We do not identify ourselves with the opinion of our correspondents.] To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. Est propri[?] stu[?]
Sir,—With grateful feelings towards your pugnacions correspondent "Ego" for the kind advice given in his poetic exordium (by which of course, I do not fail to recognize him.) I may…
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The succession of rashes which have latterly taken place, has tended very much to unsettle digging operations on the river, and to paralyse business of every kind at Sofala. At usual the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scab in Sheep. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal
Sir,-Allow me through the medium of your, journal to call the attention of the authorities 10 the urgent necessity which exists for appointing an Inspector of Scab for the district of Georgians…
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Sir.-The meeting [?]l at Mrs. Whiton's on the 13th, to take into consideration the formation of a School of Arts, was not the first I have attended, having the same object in view. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence [We do not identify ourselves with the opinions of our correspondents.] To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal
"To whatsoever you aspire Let it at least be simple and entire." SIR.-Had "Libra Ri[?]ti" confined himself to the use of words which no doubt have appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal
SIR,—You must be aware that some few years since beef and mutton were at a discount, so much so, that we were glad to find any, and every description of consumption for all our marketable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Abuses of Licensed Public Houses in the Bush. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal
SIR,—From your long-tried and well-proved advocacy of the best interests of the working classes, I have presumed to send you a statement of the many crying evils and abuses to which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence [We do not identify ourselves with the opinions of [?] our correspondents.] To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal
Sir,—As a School of Arts is in course of formation at Bathurst and as the propriety of establishing a debating class in connection with it will probably be, ere long, considered by the…
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