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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
91 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 5
The flattering yet apparently authentic accounts, that have arrived from the Fitzroy diggings has last the effect of inspiring our community with rich ho[?]es of a large participation in the all but fabulous wealth of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We learn from private advices that the excitement in Sydney from the discovery of the Fitzroy Gold Fields is astonishing, and appears to increase with the departure of every vessel bound for Rockhampton. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In pursuance of the provisions contained in the Act of the Local Parliament, 20 Victoria, No. 29, intituled "An Act to amend the Laws relating to the gold Field." his Excellency the Governor-General with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is hereby notified, that under the provisions of the Marriage Act, 19th Victoria, No. 30, the undermentioned gentleman has been appointed by their Honors the Judges, to give consent to the marriage of persons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In our correspondent's letter, dated 2nd instant, which appeared in the Herald a few days back, he mentioned that a man had obtained a 12 lb. nugget. By Saturday's post we received the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the Uncle Tom, which arrived on Saturday evening, we have several days later intelligence from Port Curtis; the news, with reference to the new gold-field, upon the whole appears…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In [?] of the power vested in me this behalf I, Sir William Thomas Denison, Knight, the Governor-General [?] do hereby proclaim that the following shall be deemed to be a Gdd field within the meaning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The discovery of a new gold field at Port Curtis is the all-absorbing topic of conversation amongst our diggers, and I suppose it rings from one end of the country to the other. the reports circulated regarding the new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?] laid upon the table of the House [?] communication from the Colonial [?] to the Hon. the Secretary for Lands and [?]s, reporting shipment of buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, SEPT. 29.—We have at last some direct news from the Fitzroy, although not of a very late date. Mr Ramsay, of the firm of Ramsay and Gaden, the proprietors of the Canoona Run, where the gold field is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City of Sydney (s.), Captain Paddle, from Keppel Bay 30th September, arrived at the A.S.N. Company's Wharf last evening, at 9 p.m. She has brought back forty-two passengers, out of whom only about seven had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been favoured by the sight of two letters from a person—the son of an old colonist—who has settled at Vancouver Island. The first of these was written at Victoria, Vancouver Island, and was dated 7th June…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rumours were current in the city yesterday afternoon of important intelligence having been received by the Government relative to the gold-fields at Port Curtis. Upon enquiry we find that the facts are these:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Special commissioner (Heaven save the mark !) of the Herald has returned from the Fitzroy without performing any service worth mentioning. He seem to have been frightened out of his propriety, and although…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For a long time it has born [?] there was no payable gold in the gallies [?] which was considered to [?] this gold-field, [?] lately the beds of several [?] creeks and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was an action for the value of a cargo of coal. There were several pleas upon the record, but a letter from the defendant was placed in evidence, wherein the claim of the plaintiffs was admitted. A verdict for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following official correspondence on the recent discovery of a Quartz Reef, at the head of Spring Creek; Burrendong, has been obligingly handed to us, for the information of the public, by the Hon. the Secretary for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir—I do myself the honor to report on the recent success, and importers discoveries of the miners in this district. 2. Sometimes since, as stated in my last half-yearly report, an suriferous quartz vein was opened at the head of Spring Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather since my last has been very fine, and the rains, with the warm [?] have caused r[?]getation to proposed with great rapdi[?]. The country is clothed in [?] mental, and the gardens are holding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Everything here remains [?] and but for the [?] and department [?] would [?] stagnation, Nothing [?] money stirring [?] at the very last point of [?]s…
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