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Acoounts, most of them of an authenticated nature are reaching town daily, and to such, an extent has the excitement for searching after the Precious metal reached, that hardly any person is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is perfectly impossible to give any adequate description of the excitement now agitating all classes of the community, and it must be confessed there is abundance of provocation, as the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—It is rumoured that the great povertystricken squatter of Vaucluse is to introduce a bill in the forthcoming Council to turn aside the course of Nature for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BUNINYONG, Monday Morning.—If Fortunatus had thrown the contents of his cap over the lands of Ballarat, the yield of riches would not have been increased. Here…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—Is the present state of the Exchanges an evil? The question appears to me to be a very simple one. The Merchant can now import his goods so much cheaper than before, or be can pay…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT has been shown that in population and in wealth, the District of Port Phillip, while yet an adjunct of the Middle or Sydney District, had advanced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN addition to the particulars given by our Turon Correspondent, relative to the hearty welcome, which the Rev.Dr. Lang received from the gold minors, and also as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The letter of our Ballarat reporter is the most important which has yet appeared. We cannot too highly appreciate the teal and industry with which he has compiled complete statistics…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CONSIDERABLE excitement was created on "Change" last Wednesday, by the arrival of a vessel from Melbourne with intelligence that the gold fields at "Ballarat," about forty miles from Geelong, were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The richness of the recently-discovered Southern Gold Fields may be gathered from the following extracts from the local papers, and a private…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 7th October. 1851. -- With reference to the notices from this office of the 23rd May and 4th August last, and pending the receipt of instructions from Her Majesty's Government, His Excellency the Governor-General has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Melbourne and Geelong journals to the 3rd instant, received by yesterday's overland m[?], contain but little authentic information as to the gold field beyond what was received by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday last, a small piece of gold was found by Mr. Wood, of Towrang, and a person named Sommerill (most appropriate name for a gold discoverer,) within four miles of Goulburn, we believe on the Towrang road, at the back of the Governor's hill…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Very promising diggings have been discovered in the lower portion of the Winburndale Creek, about five miles below Brucedale, the residence of W. H. Sutto[?]'s Esq. There are about a dozen people at work, who are procuring a coarse description of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEALE'S POINT, OCTOBER 4.—A rumour has been pretty freely circulated about the river that some person had been personating one of the Commissioners, and had received some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SEPT. 27. -- Since I last wrote to you, new diggings have been discovered in the gullies at the top of the Arraluen mountains, about a mile from the upper diggins; they are situate in one of the principal vallies leading to the creek, and at the head of a large…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oh, 'tis sweet to find when the eradle we rock A chum who is most philosophie, and spics A stone in the hopper he fances a block Of gold-circled quarts which is greeting his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To dig or not to dig, that is the question:— Whether 'tis nobler in a core to suffer The pangs of hunger in deserted Sydney: Or to take pick, and spade, and wooden…
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