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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1852

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Gold Circular

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1852 · page 8

THE Iliomana, from Auckland, yesterday, brought news of the discovery of gold in New Zealand. We have been permitted to make the following extract from a letter received by a mercantile house…

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Miners Read the Following

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1852 · page 6

We earnestly call the attention of the gold digging community to this part of Mr. M'Eachern's letter, which appeared in the "Empire" of Saturday last:—" I…

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Victoria Gold Field. Mount Alexander

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1852 · page 3

Our special correspondent at Forest Creek, supplies as with details illustrative of the difficulties of gold washing with a deficient supply of water. At present the under-strata of quartz, clay, &c.,…

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Intelligence From the Gold Diggins. Ophir

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1852 · page 3

There is little to communicate in the gold digging line, owing to a flood which took place on Wednesday week. A thunder storm set in about eight o'clock with immense violence, and continued for a…

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South Australia. Gold at Last.—disgraceful Hoax

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1852 · page 3

We mentioned yesterday that Messrs. Bonney and Babbage, the new Commissioners for issuing the gold licenses, had gone up to visit the gold diggings on Mount Lofty Range. These gentlemen…

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Intelligence From the Gold Diggins. the Turon Gold Mines. Turon River, January 26th, 1852

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1852 · page 3

I was very much amused at an incident which occurred close t us, consequent upon the visit of the Commissioner. Mr. Zouch asked an old Scotchman, who was working by himself, if he had a license, to…

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Gold Circular

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1852 · page 6

H. M. SCHOONER Bramble, from New Zealand, has put us in possession of some further particulars respecting the New Zealand Gold fields—but only sufficient to confirm previous reports, as she sailed…

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Gold in Australia

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1852 · page 2

The Weekly Chronicle speaks thus of the late intelligence from these colonies. Not only says that journal, is the announcement of the discoveries of gold in…

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Price of Gold

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1852 · page 2

The quotations of gold at Paris is about 1 per mille discount (according to the new tariff,) which at the English Mint price of £3 17s. 10½d. per…

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The New Gold Tax

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1852 · page 4

WHEN we wrote our last leading article, headed "The Masses and the Monarchy," we little thought how soon some of its observations would apply to passing events. It…

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Our District's Welfare, and Its Gold

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1852 · page 4

MUCH has been written by us on the unerring indications shown of the presence of gold in our immediate locality, yet we are sorry to have to record that the apathy of…

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Gold in the Town of Bathurst

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1852 · page 3

Local discoveries of gold are of such frequent occurrence, that unless extraordinary results can be shown, they cease to attract more than ordinary attention. Some five or six months ago we informed…

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Victoria Gold Field. Mount Alexander. Forest Creek, January 25th, 1852

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1852 · page 3

Hundreds of persons have arrived during the last, week, but most of them have gone on to the Lodden. Many are returning, and several of the conveyances have been filled with the sick, who are in hopes of…

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Gold Circular

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1852 · page 8

THE present has been rather an eventful week, occasioned by the receipt of advices from London with assays and account sales of the gold shipped per Thomas Arbuthnot and Lady Clarke, which show…

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Victoria Gold Field. Mount Alexander

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1852 · page 3

THE following is an extract from a letter written by the son of an old and respectable resident in George-street, Sydney, addressed to an intimate friend, also a respectable tradesman, in George-street. From…

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Intelligence From the Gold Diggins. Turon. Upper Wallaby, February 6th

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1852 · page 3

On Saturday last, I started in company with Mr. Waldron, of our party, for the Dirt Hole Creek, and after managing to cross the river by the Wallaby Rock, followed the ranges between the Crudine…

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Intelligence From the Gold Diggins. the Gold Mines. Turon River, February 10th, 1852

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1852 · page 3

During the past week affairs on the Turon have been slowly resuming somewhat of their former appearance, though it is but a very faint resemblance of the past. The miners are very unsettled—many…

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Gold Circular

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1852 · page 8

THERE is nothing very remarkable in the news from our mines this week-although on the whole we have good reason to be satisfied. The Turon has not yet sufficiently recovered to…

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Gold News in England

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1852 · page 3

The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, says:—"The last accounts from Australia, which more than confirm all that…

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Victoria Gold Field. Mount Alexander. Forest Creek, February 7, 1852

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1852 · page 3

The dreadful state of anxiety in which most of the diggers are placed from the hordes of scoundrels infesting Fryer's and Forest creeks, induces me to beg assistance of your able pen to waken the government…

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