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82 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 5
SIR,—In compliance with an intimation in may monthly report of June 30, I proceed to give you a hasty account of California as it is seen under the influence of the gold excitement now…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cockleshell Mine.—The miners have been sinking rapidly during the past week, in consequence of the badness of their beef. A few days ago several large stones were raised, which, upon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SIR, -- In compliance with an intimation in my monthly report of June 30, I proceed to give you a hasty account of California as it is seen under the influence of the gold excitement now prevailing throughout the country…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FROM the various accounts which have been received from California, from time to time, within the last eight months or a year, we think there is tittle room to doubt that the newly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Upon the bills the wintry wind in sizling in the dark vale where [?] the winding Wear. A b[?]dred ceal-fires [?] Beside the black-[?] mines…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE hunter (though rarely) has been set upon by robbers for the sake of the pack of furs he was carrying on his back to some of the seaport towns on the coast to dispose of; but, as the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"In a cell the prisoner lieth On the morrow-morn he dieth— Gaoler, trim his lamp! Warder, see it brightly gleameth!…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PROVIDED we are not interested as victims, we know nothing more amusing than the rise, progress, decline, and fall, of a min ing project. Some shepherd or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →1. EXTERNAL aspect massive and metallic, representing a portion of a vein of ore having laminated quartz (resembling felspar) for its matrix; here and there stained by the green…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the observations we have made, and shall hereafter make, on mines and mining, we would not be considered as opposing, or even offering an opinion upon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is not until the statistics of mining are examined with some degree of attention, that any approximation can be made to a correct idea as to the quantity of ore that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LETTERS from California state that further discoveries have been made in the gold region, which yield even a more abundant supply than the previous diggings. According to the latest accounts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →HAVING witnessed with deep regret a spirit of speculation and gambling growing up amongst the inhabitants of the colony, in connection with mines and mineral wealth,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE effect of a large and sudden influx of gold into the money markets of the world on the relative value of real property and its standard metallic representative, is beginning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE accounts by the last arrival from California are exciting, but deplorable. The dates from San Francisco are to the 25th of December. The following extracts contain the pith of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"What is here? Gold! Yellow, glittering, precious gold!" The following article appears to us to be the best of the many which have been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A King's College Professor having come forward with a seasonable work under the above title, Punch begs leave to enter, agninst the learned Professor's volume, his own "Directions for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A King's College Professor having come forward with A seasonable work under the above title. Punch begs leave to enter, against the learned Professor's volume, his own "Directions for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DEAR BILL: I'm bewildered! by the pea that I hold— And for which I just now gave a fistful of gold— I hardly can tell, such excitement I feel,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE oldest and most extensive empire in the world is that of gold, and in this age of subversion even that empire is threatened with overthrow, and the danger proceeds from a…
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