The Victoria Gold Fields. Ballarat
APRIL 6.— After nearly five month's hard work, Messrs. M'Candless, and party, bottomed their claim on the Gravel Pits line. The shaft, is some 140 feet in depth. Yesterday they…
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Mining & the mines, 1854
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Intelligence From the Gold Diggings. the Southern Gold Fields. Braidwood
BRAIDWOOD, 25th APRIL.—Our diggers are now enjoying a happy return of sunshine, from which they have been excluded for some time past, and are as busy as bees; the water still…
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Since I last wrote, the news from Omeo, brought by a few who have returned, continues much the same as whet I have already recorded. A large number hare left during the week, and…
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MAY 2, 1854.— The last ten days of fine weather have been very beneficial to our diggers, and I have now the pleasure to record most favourably of all who are engaged in searching…
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WE have just had an interview with one of a party of California diggers, who is now in Goulburn on business. He informs us that himself and party arrived some time ago in…
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MAY 10.âNever since the gold-digging commenced in this district have our miners had less inclination to be dissatisfied. There is a very large quantity of gold now among the diggers,…
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SOFALA, MAY 4, 1854.—From what I can gather from private, but reliable, sources respecting the new diggings, 1 learn that many of the diggers have obtained, and are still…
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The following letter we copy from the Melbourne Argus. It is worth reading, and if to be believed, goes far to show the futility of persons going from this part of the Colony to the…
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MAY 23.—From Major's Creek, more particularly the new diggings, I have to give the most encouraging intelligence. All doing well, and many making their £2 a day. The rain which…
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The lead of Pinchgut Gully, which has been lost, has been again struck by some Cornish miners; several parties are of course hard at work again, and are expected to bottom within…
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AT Solitary Creek the diggers appear satisfied with the success which has hitherto attended their labours, but it has not by any means turned out according to general expectation. Two or…
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IN my last I mentioned a rush having been made to a point above Mr. Lundie's public-house—it has not turned out so well as was expected and very few are preserving enough to continue…
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THE diggings throughout that wide-spreading district known as the Ovens are at the present time far from offering any enticement to the gold-seeker. I cannot tell you which creck,…
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JUNE 7.—I took a ride over to the Mongarlowe river, where a very fine specimen, of a nuggett has been found weighing 13 oz. 3 dwt., I weighed it myself; there is a good dead of quartz, but I…
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SPRING C[?]EEK, JUNE 2.—One of the greatest inconveniences under which we at present labour is, the want of an armed conveyance for the transmission of gold from these diggings to…
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JUNE 14.—I have great difficulty to forage any news for your journal this week, the intelligence from the different gold fields is much the same as in my last report. The weight of the…
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Intelligence has reached Bathurst of the discovery of rich digging ground in the vicinity of the Bald Hill, and that a rush from Tambaroora had in consequence taken place. For…
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JULY 5.—In this township there is a very common and dangerous practice of extending strong ropes from tree to tree for the purpose of drying clothes upon, and which we trust the…
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JUNE29.—As I stated briefly in my last, the new north-west diggings are some 25 miles on this side Mount William. near the head station of Mr. Magill…
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I SCARCELY know what to say about our diggings, I would fuin drop the subject for the winter months; but suppose I am expected to give some intelligence if it were only to say…
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