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In the early part of the year 1851 many rumours were abroad to the effect that the interior of the colony was one vast gold field. Public attention was first called to the subject by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Of the rich mines belonging to this Company a description appeared in this Journal some time ago. Up to the present time the Company have sent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold opened firmly at 65s. and advanced as high as 66s. 61., and towards the close of the week, it left off at 65s. The progressive advance in price was suddenly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There has been little business doing this week in the gold market; in the early part of it prices ranged from 65s. 6d. to 66s., when the lots for shipment per Eagle being completed—as was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From Major's Creek, 257 ozs 15 dwts.; from Hell's Creek, 224 ozs. 17 dwts.; from Goulburn, 31 ozs. 7 dwts. 10 grs. The cash brought down was—from Braidwood…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sir,—With reference to my previous communications relative to the Hanging Rock and Peel's River Gold Field, I have the honour to inform you that during the last month but little progress has…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →WHEN these Consolidated Regulations, as they are called, were issued at the end of March last, a mere glance was taken of them in the Herald, because their working had not been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"HURRAH for the road; the road," gaily shouted we on the morning of last Monday week; and as we passed by the Colonial Treasury, that bright goal of all our hopes, and bethought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON no question has the public mind been more distracted, for many years past, than on that connected with the occupancy of our waste lands by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No further letters have been received in Maitland from Bingera or the neighbourhood, the Hunter being so high as to stop the mails from above Singleton. We have been obliged by our Singleton correspondent with the following intelligence respecting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HUMBLY SHEWETH:--That whereas a new order of things has arisen from the discovery of gold in the soil of this country, and from the opening of the gold fields to the free and independent industry of the colony:…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The gold market is more animated than at our last report, with a decided disposition to purchase. Our own mines are, however, almost at a stand-still, in consequence of the continued…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This has been an unfortunate winter for our gold digging population; no sooner has one flood subsided than another and heavier has succeeded, till our golden produce seems almost to be small to be noticed. Nearly all…
Continued on Trove, page 247 →When Col. Thompson was canvassing Sunderland, a question was put to the honorable candidate as to what he would suggest in the event of the coal mines of this country being exhausted? The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A short time ago a memorial to His Excellency the Governor-General was got up in Sydney praying that grants of alluvial lands in the gold fields might be given to certain companies for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No escort from the Western diggings has arrived since our last notice, and the amount of gold received during the week is consequently small, the total amount being 545 ozs. 19 dwts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →So long as the discovery of gold in Australia evinced merely the same features as those with which the public had already become familiar in California, we felt little…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE have nows from South Australia to the 27th ultimo. A gold field had been discovered on the river Onkaparinga; several dishes of earth were washed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have some further information from these diggings, obligingly communicated by parties who carno down to attend the Circuit court. There is a special coach provided by contract by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON the 12th of August in last year, a notice from the COLONIAL SECRETARY was published in the Government Gazette, intimating that arrangements had been…
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