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As the summer season is setting in and the creeks are gradually lowering, the eyes of many of the diggers are again directed to Ophir; and it is a prevalent belief the Summerhill Creek will speedily be relieved from its solitude, end regain the favor of which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Since my last letter to you we have had a very heavy fall of rain, which has filled many of the large waterholes in the creek, and caused the water to flow plenteously in the gullies, but not sufficient to flood the creeks. It has however been the means of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The route from Ophir to the junction of the Turon and the Macquarie, once so much frequented, is one not easily followed by a person Unacquainted with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Meeting of the Shareholders in this Company was held at their Offices, 438, George-street, on Saturday last. The followiug Report was read to the meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MFETING of the Shareholders in this company was held at their office, 438, George-street, on Saturday last, when the following report was read:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN a Parliamentary Blue Book, containing further papers relative to the recent discovery of gold in Australia, and presented to Parliament, under command of Her Majesty, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Turon which has occupied so prominent a position among the gold fields of Australia, has been so often described that there is no necessity whatever for my…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I have the pleasure of informing you that the weather here has to all appearance become set fair. The bed of the Peel River is becoming dry rapidly, and will, I have no doubt, soon yield up…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MEETING of merchants, traders, and others, was held yesterday afternoon in the Sydney Exchange Rooms, George-street, for the purpose of establishing an Escort to convey Gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In my last communication respecting the Lower Turon, I was compelled to close rather hurriedly to be in time for the mail. When near the junction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"When leaving Sofala, en route for Bathurst, I determined to go by the Lower Road, in order that I might learn what operations were being carried on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The third of the lectures now in course of delivery at the Museum of Practical Geology was last night given by Dr. Lyon Playfair, C.B., the subject of the lecture…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following are the consignments of gold received at the Colonial Treasury, yesterday, by armed Escort from the Northern Diggings, per steamer from Morpeth on the previous evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday last, there was a meeting held in the Sydney Exchange Rooms, for the purpose of establishing an Escort, to convey gold from the different gold fields of New South Wales and Victoria to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →I have the pleasure of informing you that the weather here has to all appearance become set fair. The bed of the Peel River is becoming dry rapidly, and will, I have no doubt, soon yield up its golden…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Peel River, November 10, 1852. Inland information is often scanty, or onesided, or unmeaningly uninteresting. It is my wish to avoid all these. Of course the diggings…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A RATHER bulky Paper has just issued, from the Government Press, being a Return to an Address from the Legislative Council cf New South Wales, dated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I have to re[?]ort an activity in the gold market more animated than anything hitherto experienced, and, as a consequence, a higher range of prices than has been reached on former occasions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The intelligence from our mines this week is on the whole satisfactory. The weather to the westward was becoming more favourable dally, and diggers were flocking in to the mines in great numbers. At the Turon,…
Continued on Trove, page 325 →As we anticipated, this week we have done a very brisk trade, at an advance of 6d. to 9J. per ounce, on last week's Sales; and we fully expect the coming week, gold will maintain full…
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