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THE intelligence from our mines this week is on the whole satisfactory. The weather to the westward was becoming more favourable daily, and diggers were flocking in to the mines in great numbers. At the Taron,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE New Gold Field recently opened on the river Ovens, on the confines of the colony of Victoria, is at this moment, perhaps, exciting more attention than any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our diggings are progressing rapidly, in consequence of the large addition to out numbers. The creek is falling rapidly, and it is only when the bed claims can be properly worked that the true value of our rich gold field will be ascertained. I, in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following quantities from the Western gold fields were yesterday brought down by the escort, viz:— oz. dwt. gr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The digging population is in a very unsettled state just now, moving about from one gold field to another. Many have left this part within the last week for the several diggings north, south, east, and west, and I am told it is the same at other places. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN Order to repress the excitement in favor of gold seeking, which began to prevail to the entire stoppage of all other pursuits, the Lieut-Governor with the advice of his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →What our hopeful Government was afraid to do on behalf of the public, a few private individuals are setting about doing on their own account. With the view of forming a Joint Stock Escort Company to convoy gold from Mount Alexander to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our diggings are progressing rapidly, in consequence of the large addition to our numbers. The creek is falling rapidly, and it is only when the bed claims can be properly worked that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Quartz is thE matrix of gold—just as ironstone is the matrix of iron; lumps of pure iron aro sometimes found as well as lumps of pure gold; sometimes we find…
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 its golden treasures to the numbers of expectant miners who throng…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →I shall make no apology at tms time, when even thing about the interior of this colony is endowed with a new and incresing interest from the wonderful discoveries which have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This copper mine is situated on the banks of the Gilmandyke Creek, a tributary of the Campbell's River. The creek flows into the river from the south-west,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—We have had so many hoaxes in gold lately, that I hardly venture to inform you that there is much reason to believe that gold has been found in the heart of this town, in a bed of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Having been laid up at Bathurst for several days with a severe attack of the epidemic, then ravaging that part of the country, on feeling somewhat better I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINCE the year (1699) of that memorable attempt to found a British colony in the Isthmus of Darien, as projected by that amiable Scotch clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Paterson, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following letter speaks for itself:- To the Editor of the Economist. SIR—My attention, in common with that of all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Campbell's River in the vicinity of the Summerhill Copper Mine, there are a few parties at work, gold digging, whose success, however, at present, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have little to report from our mines this week, nothing remarkable having occurred since our lst. From the North we hear that the digging were promising well, although the gold was unequally distributed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The animation reported in my last circular has been fully sustained during the present week, though business has been limited by the small supply of gold. Prices may be quoted at £3 12s…
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