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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines
65 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 4
AN explosion of a very deplorable character is reported from Newcastle. About nine miles from that town there is a village named Chest-le-street, and very near to the village is Penton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE past month has been one of the most fatal that has been known in the mining districts of England. On December 10 there was an explosion from fire-damp at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DURING a brief sojourn in Sydney upon business, the 17th March with all its attendant rollicking, fun, and joviality came round. Business pursued under such…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GRENFELL. APRIL 29, I shall give you a complete description of this diggings at same future and more fitting time. At present it will be sufficient to state that this field, although only of six…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MAY 1. -- Since the 23rd March, we had rain without intermission, daily nearly, with the exception of three frosty days, namely, 18th, 19th, 20th instant. Though there are some sprinklings of rain,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MAY 6. -- A fortnight after my arrival here I had occasion to see our Police Magistrate, and in the course of conversation I told him that I had seen about 500 men arriving the day previous. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MAY 9. -- The escort from here took down this time very near 9000 ounces. There are two reasons for this first large amount of gold. The Joint Stock Bank did not send its cold by the previous escort, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MAY 14.--In mine of the 6th inst. I endeavoured to illustrate the benefit to the commonwealth of the colony by individual mining enterprise over leasing at the opening of a gold-field; likewise,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MAY 16. -- The weather kept fine till yesterday evening, when some sprinklings of rain became perceptible. Whne debating the leasing system I was not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CLASSICS. MATHEMATICS. PHYSICS. E. Barton req. P. cooper W. Purves E. Cooper req. W. Purves P. Cooper W. Purves J. Thompson J. Thompson…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MAY 20. -- The want of a local press is greatly felt, because everyone who chooses may abuse this field as much as be likes, but never troubles himself to offer a remedy. Now, the shepherding system…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE editor of the Chicago Tribune, Horace White, recently visited the gold-room in New York, and has written a description of it which is most interesting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MAY 23. -- The yield of tho quartz crushed last week and washed up on Tuesday was 4½ ozs. to the ton. What an amount of capital is lying dead from having so many thousand tons of rich quartz already…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JUNE 3. -- No. 1. south, O'Brien's Reef, obtained 189 ounces from 50 tons of quartz crushed last week. The cream of our quartz is now being crushed at Fitzpatrick's machine from No. 2…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JUNE 3. -- Mr. "Pick's" description of diggings and diggers in the Sydney Mail would certainly make anyone believe that on gold-fields there are none to be found hut loafers, debauchees, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JUNE 6. -- The Five-mile, or Frenchman's Gully, which was proclaimed last week a duffer, turns out again rather encouraging prospects. On the the Tygong, the "Overland Route," of which I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At last there seems a strong probability that an extensive alluvial discovery has been made—one that will materially add to the resources of the gold-field, and give…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE have been furnished with the following extracts from a letter received by the secretary of the above mine:— We are ready to resume sinking the engine-shafts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MAY 17. -- We shall be made famous for our institutions here. We have a private night watchman, a registrar of the Small Debts Court, an agent for the registration of births, marriages, and…
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