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GOLD-HUNTING used to be thought the most disappointing of human pursuits. There appeared to be a law of Providence indicating that the best way to get riches was to work for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The same cause which has seriously affected all branches of business during the current week, the inclement state of the weather, has produced a temporary stagnation in all gold transactions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BY the last accounts from the Turon, every energy on the part of the diggers appears to be again piralysed, the water having gradually risen so as to cover the bed claims, and has so disheartened the miners that most of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SINCE the publication of our article on this subject we have obtained some further particulars respecting the audacious swindle which has been perpetrated upon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BY the Shamrock steamer we are in possession of Melbourne journals and letters to the 25th instant. We learn that the last escort from Mount Alexander arrived shortly before the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The quantity of gold brought into Sydney through official sources during the past week is not large. By the Escort, 2611 ounces 10 dwts. only have arrived, and by mails 843 ounces,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From the latest accounts, we learn that matters are proceeding steadily at the Dirt Hole and Tambaroora Creek diggings. The population remains as nearly as possible, stationary, and the earnings as nearly as possible, the same. At none of the diggings…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rain, rain, rain. No [?]ing but the threatening appearance of the weather has been the topic of conversation on the mines since my last. All last week it rained more or less every day, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bearing in mind the particulars detailed in my previous paper, and following the course of the discoveries to where the open and extensive valley of the Turon was first worked, a similarity in the yield and nature of the gold to that of the lower part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DEAR SIRâFrom the tenour of my last letter you will perceive that the key to all the difficulties of administration over the gold mines of the colony, whether they be of a fiscal or economic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following highly interesting extract is taken from a letter addressed by a gentleman of Molong, to a friend in Bathurst:—"News has this moment reached us of gold, in paying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Debats fills the greater part of its first page with an article by M. Michel Chevalter. It is on the probable effect upon the currency and the operations of commerce in general of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Melbourne papers to Saturday last, which came to hand by the Don Juan, contain no news of importance from the Mount Alexander diggings. The one topic was the difficulty—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It must be deemed at least a very remarkable fact that in a transition period like the present, tending to a great political crisis, or rather, to a general social revolution…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To advise those infected with the " gold fever" is like " throwing physic to the dogs"—it has no effect—these people seem insensible to all the dictates of prudence or common sense. Perhaps these…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SIR,—I beg leave to offer an apology for an earlier reply to the remarks which you did me the honor of making respecting me in a letter which you some time ago published,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Armed Escort from the Western Diggings, brought down and deposited at the Treasury yesterday, a considerable quantity of gold. As the mail from the Western District did not reach…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As I anticipated in my last notice, the price of gold has gone up during the week, the quotations now being 65s. to 65s. 6d. The Banks have purchased largely at 65s. The arrivals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NOTHING of importance has occurred at our mines since our last: the water is still too high in the Turon to admit any reasonable expectation of succecss in the bed claims, and most of the miners have left for the adjacent…
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