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Mining & the mines, 1851

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The Victoria Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 October 1851 · page 3
Also in Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer

THE Melbourne and Geelong journals received by yesterday's overland mail, contain very different accounts of the progress of the gold seekers to those with which they have amused…

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Mining Intelligence. (From the Bathurst Free Press.) Turon Diggings

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 18 October 1851 · page 2

Uuless 1 forward you everlasting' stories of what John Thompson or same other gold digging worthy is doing—how much gold a Windsor agriculturist, a Sydney attorney, or a…

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The Southern Gold Fields. (From Correspondents of the Goulburn Herald.) ARRALUEN

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 18 October 1851 · page 1

Oct. 7.—The diggers in the gully were doing very well last week. A person named Appleby, with two more, got 30 [?]., which they sold to Mr J. Williams, on Saturday last. A great…

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Bell's Life in Sydney. Saturday, October 18,1851. The Victoria Gold Fields

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 18 October 1851 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning's post brought as our usual files of Melbourne papers, and from the Argus of the 9th instant we feel bound to extract the followiug…

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Gold Sale. To the Editor of the Empire. Sydney, October 17th 1851, 490, George-street

Empire · Saturday 18 October 1851 · page 3

SIR—I beg to band you the result of this day's sale of cold dust. £ s. d. A. C. Cohen, Lot 1, one pocket Turon…

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Mining Intelligence. Mudgee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 October 1851 · page 3

AT present I have time to give you only a short journal of a tour I have been making through part of the gold region in this district. On Friday I started for Burrandong, distant…

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The New Gold Regulations. (From Our Special Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 October 1851 · page 3

THE new gold regulations appear to be most satisfactory so far as the alluvial washing is concerned, the present diggers have nothing whatever to say against them, but that is far…

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The Search for Coal. (From the Adelaide Observer, September 20)

Empire · Monday 20 October 1851 · page 4

As several explorations have been mode in this colony, and as new expeditions having for their chief object the discovery of coal are contemplated, if not actually in progress, we deem it of…

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The Turon Gold Fields. (From our own Correspondent.) Thursday evening, October 1st[?]

Empire · Monday 20 October 1851 · page 2

Through the efforts of the ministry Sunday trading is about to be abolished; the various storekeepers having signed a round Robin to that effect. Amongst the…

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Recent Gold Regulations. Applicants shall bind themselves to employ not less than forty persons, &c., and take out licenses for every person so employed. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 October 1851 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—We need not visit foreign countries to witness the mischievous interference of Governments with private enterprise, for short as has been the history of our Southern…

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The Gold Regulations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 October 1851 · page 3

IN the Government Gazette some further gold regulations have been published. We did not comment on the former regulations in any way, both because the limited experience which the…

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Mining Intelligence. Turon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 October 1851 · page 3

NEALE'S POINT, OCTOBER 14.—To-day I accompanied the Messrs. Neale to a new digging down by the Upper Wallaby Rocks, where about a dozen parties have lately struck into…

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Interior. the Maitland Gold Reward. (From the Maitland Mercury, October 18.)

Empire · Tuesday 21 October 1851 · page 3

On Wednesday evening, pursuant to advertisement, a meeting of the Maitland Gold Howard Committee was held at the Australian Inn, West Maitland, Mr. W. Lipscomb in the…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Empire · Tuesday 21 October 1851 · page 3

SIR—On casting a glimpse over your issue of Saturday last, my attention was most particularly attracted to the new laws issued in Friday night's Gazette, with, it is supposed, the better regulation…

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The Victoria Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 October 1851 · page 3

THE Melbourne and Geelong journals to the 14th instant, received by yesterday's overland mail, afford additional evidence of the monstrous exaggerations which every writer…

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GOLD. (From Yesterday's Government Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 October 1851 · page 3

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, 21st October, 1851. His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to direct, that from…

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Gold Regulations. (From Yesterday's Government Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 October 1851 · page 3

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, 21st October, 1851. His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to make the…

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The Goulburn Gold Fields. (From our own Correspondent.)

Empire · Wednesday 22 October 1851 · page 2

Reports from the gold fields are like thrice-told tales. In each is there the same accounts of success, chequered with the dispiriting intelligence that some who…

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Mining Intelligence

Empire · Thursday 23 October 1851 · page 4

Our correspondent, "Mountaineer," gives us the most cheering account of mining operations in Tuolumne county. Au immense multitude of persons are now…

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