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Mining & the mines, 1852

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The Victoria Gold Fields. Mems. From the Mount. (From our own Correspondent.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 11 September 1852 · page 1

Bendigo, from all I can learn, has evidently become for the nonce the head quarters of the scamps and villains, a good many of whom used to be the terror of Fryer's Creek and Forest…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, September 11, 1852. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Surrender of the Gold Revenue

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 September 1852 · page 4

WITHIN twenty- four hours after the delivery of Mr. WENTWORTH'S speech on Wednesday, insisting upon the right of the Legislative Council to the control…

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The South Australian Goldfields

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 11 September 1852 · page 2

We have news from Adelaide to the 29th ult. or one day letter We[?] [?] the [?] of the above date the issue [?] [?] of the newly discovered gold field [?] as it is termed…

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The Northern Goldfields

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 11 September 1852 · page 2

No mail arrived from beyond Singleton on Sunday evening. Last night the northern mails from as far as Drayton came down, but we received so letters from the [?] of Barraba…

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First Report of the "Australian Mutual Gold Mining Association."

Empire · Monday 13 September 1852 · page 2

IN common with many other of our fellow-colonists, we were inclined to regard the formation of English companies for working the gold fields of Australia as a…

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Original Correspondence. the Gold Escort. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 September 1852 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—Numerous complaints have of late been made of the delay in forwarding the gold per Escort from Bathurst to Sydney, and the Honorable the Colonial Secretary, in…

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The Northern Gold Fields. the Bingera Diggings. (From the Maitland Mercury, September ll.)

Empire · Monday 13 September 1852 · page 3

We have been favoured with the perusal of the following letter to Mr. Gorrick, of this place, from Mr. James Brimstone, who recently left Maitland for the diggings:…

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English News. English Money, Mining, and Commercial Intelligence, (From the Daily News, June 8.) MONEY

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 September 1852 · page 3

THIS has been a very dull day in the Stock Exchange, no sppearance of briskness being observable in any department Consols were steady throughout the day at yessterday's closing range of 100? to ½, both for money…

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Gold News of the Week

Empire · Tuesday 14 September 1852 · page 2

The gold intelligence of the week possesses considerable interest. A larger amount than usual has been received by Escorts and Mails, and there is an Escort over due from the Western…

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The Western Gold Fields. (From our own Correspondent.) Oakey Creek, Turon, September 8, 1852

Empire · Tuesday 14 September 1852 · page 3

On yesterday evening we had thunder and lightning, accompanied by heavy rain, which has again caused the river to rise considerably. The rain came down for about four hours, and to-day…

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The Gold of the World

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 September 1852 · page 2

IN a London journal (the Evening Mail) of the 21st May last, there is a remarkable paper on the annual increase of gold throughout the world, prepared by Mr…

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The Southern Gold Fields. Braidwood. (From the Goulburn Herald Correspondent, September 6.)

Empire · Wednesday 15 September 1852 · page 3

Some little excitement has been caused during the past week by the discovery of two new localities in which gold is found. It appears questionable, however, whether that on Bell's Creek…

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TUESDAY. The Speaker took the Chair at half-past three. Gold Miners' Petition

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 16 September 1852 · page 9

Mr. Nichols presented a petition from certain associated Miners of the Gold District of Tambaroora, praying the extension of the Elective Franchise to the Miners generally—the…

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The Gold Revenue

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 16 September 1852 · page 7

The Despatch lately received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, aud transmitted in the Governor-General's Message to the Legislative Council last…

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Yesterday's Receipt of Gold From the Northrn Diggings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 September 1852 · page 3

BY the northern escort the following consignments of gold were delivered yesterday at the Colonial Treasury:— FROM THE HANGING ROCK…

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The Northern Gold Fields. the Hanging Rock. (From our own Correspondent.)

Empire · Thursday 16 September 1852 · page 3

The coutin[?] of alternate wet and dry weather has tantalised the mining population in no small degree. Sometimes their hopes have been elevated by the bright shining of the sun and a…

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The Feast of Gold. (From thE Weekly Times, May 23.)

Empire · Friday 17 September 1852 · page 3

While the Prince-President of France is giving brilliant "Feasts of Eagles" to consolidate his power, in another and more distant part of the globe there is being…

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The Western Gold Escort. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 September 1852 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Feeling assured that your columns are always open to the public when there is anything like a grievance to be complained of, I beg the favour of your inserting a…

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Gold Circulars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 5
Also in The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List

THE intellligence from our mines this week is unimportant, but the quantity of gold which has reached town proclaims more for[?]bly than any more reports the satisfactory progress of our miners. One of the English…

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