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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1852

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The Gold Fields Braidwood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 January 1852 · page 2

JANUARY 17—A little hubbub took place some time since at Bell's Creek, of which I said nothing at the time, but to which I may as well refer, as the result may read a useful…

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Mr. Hargraves and the Gold Discovery

Empire · Thursday 22 January 1852 · page 2

The following letters are copied, in the order in which they were published, from the Bathurst Free Press of December 31st, January 14th, and January 17th:…

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GOLD. Colonial Secretary's Office, December 31st, 1851

Empire · Thursday 22 January 1852 · page 3

The Lientenant—Governor directs that the following Report from the Commissioners for regulating the issue of Licensss to occupy such Waste Lands of the Crown, as may be supposed by the…

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The Empire. Thursday, January 22, 1852. Mr. Hargraves and the Gold Discovery

Empire · Thursday 22 January 1852 · page 2

IN another column of this publication will be found some curious letters which have recently appeared in the Bathurst Free Press, in reference to the discovery of gold…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Empire · Thursday 22 January 1852 · page 3

SIR—We herewith send you two letters for publication, from which yourself and the public may glean the principal facts connected with the discovery of gold in the district of Bathurst. But…

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(Ttue Copy.) the Gold Discovery. To the Editore of the Sydney Morning Herald. Ophir, 19th May, 1851

Empire · Thursday 22 January 1852 · page 2

GENTLEMEN—A report having been spread abroad by some malicious person who evidenty is jealous of Mr. Hargraves' great discovery, to the effect that I was the party who made it and…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. Springfield, Bathurst, 5th January, 1852

Empire · Thursday 22 January 1852 · page 2

SIR—As we deem the publication of the enclosed document of Mr. Hargraves', together with Mr. John laster's subjoined remarks, really nccessary in order to the justification of our conduct…

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The Gold Mines. (From our Special Reporter.) Turon River, January 19, 1852

Empire · Friday 23 January 1852 · page 2

On the evening of the Wednesday after my last communication, the river was visited by a brief but terrible thunderstorm, accompanied with heavy rain; and…

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The Gold Fields Ophir

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1852 · page 3

JANUARY 19.—Your Orange correspondent usually commences his epistles with some account of the weather; and I see no reason why your humble servant at Ophir should not in…

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Original Correspondence. the Braidwood Miners and Private Land Owners. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Friday 23 January 1852 · page 3

SIR—By a correspondence in the Herald of this morning, I perceive that some difficulty has occurred, at Bell's Creek, Braidwood, between some of the miners and Dr. Bell, respecting certain…

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Mining Intelligence. the Turon, (From the Bathurst Free Press, January 21.)

Empire · Friday 23 January 1852 · page 3

In our last Saturday's publication we took the liberty, as we then believed on good grounds, of formally announcing the death of Dr. Johnson, of Sofala. It now becomes our duty, and that…

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Gold Circulars

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 24 January 1852 · page 31

THE Iliomana, from Auckland, yesterday brought news of the discovery of gold in New Zealand. We have been permitted to make the following extract from a letter received by a mercantile house here, dated…

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Gold Sale

Empire · Saturday 24 January 1852 · page 2

The sales of gold this day show s tendency to advance, as anticipated in my last week's returns The receipts from the Mines, as per published statement, being this week a little above 2000…

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Gold Circular

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1852 · page 5

THE Iliomana, from Auckland, yesterday brought news of the discovery of gold in New Zealand. We have been permitted to make the following extract from a letter received by a mercantile house here, dated…

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The Victoria Gold Fields

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 24 January 1852 · page 2

THE Esc[?]r, from Mount Alexander, arrived in Town yesterday, bringing 1199 lbs 10 [?]. of gold. The quantity would have been greater, but owing to the very severe illness of Mr…

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Port Phillip Gold News

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 24 January 1852 · page 1

Mr Chapman's party of four obtained, at the Forest Creek Diggings, £3,000 worth of gold in two days; a bottle-washer to one of the merchants in town was one of the fortunate party…

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Gold in Granite. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1852 · page 5

GENTLEMEN,—During the four months over which the survey in which I am still engaged has extended, I have occasionally seen, or have been informed respecting various opinions,…

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Original Correspondence. the Braidwood Miners and Private Landowners. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Saturday 24 January 1852 · page 3

SIR—In my letter which appeared in your paper of this morning, I entered upon the investigation of the merits of the question at issue between the Braidwood Miners and Dr. Bell, in…

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South Australia. the Gold Field Swindle. (From the Adelaide Times, Jan. 7.)

Empire · Saturday 24 January 1852 · page 3

Adelaide was in a state of great excitement last week on [?] of the reported discovery of a workable Gold Field in the Mount Barker district…

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