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Below will be found a communication from our correspondent respecting the Rocky River diggings. We have also been favoured by Messrs. D. and J. Dickson with the following extract from a letter…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Select Committee, appointed on Tuesday, the 7th September, 1852, "to enquire into the system now in force for the management of the gold fields, and the collection and administration…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE have to report but little intelligence of interest from the gold fields during the past week. No new discoveries or tidings of extraordinary success will distinguish the present circular from many of its predecessors…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A large quantity of gold has changed hands this week, and the demand for shipment has far exceeded the supply. Prices have rated high, and although we do not expect that the present rates…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The approaching departure of the Great Britain has caused a spirited activity among all classes of gold purchasers, and transactions have been numerous. A large amount has been done…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A section of land has recently been purchased by Messrs. Samuel, Macintosh, and Want, which pears extraordinary indications of richness both in copper, and gold. As we are instructed, the attention of Mr. Macintosh was first attracted to the spot by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Below will be found a communication from our correspondent respecting the Rocky River diggings. We have also been favoured by Messrs. D and J. Dickson, with the following extract from a letter received from Mr. S. M'Crossin:…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The charge of libel preferred against the proprietors of this paper by Mr. John Richard Hardy, the chief gold commissioner, noticed in last week's ADVOCATE, as having been postponed for hearing until Tuesday last, was heard before Messrs. Dowling and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dec. 7.--I am happy that it is in my power to report favorably of our diggings. Already as many licenses have been taken out as were issued last month, and before another week we hope to have nearly half as many again. Bell's Paddock still continues the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The rains of the past week have slightly raised the river, so much so, as to put a stop to bed claim operations, and the diggers have according to invariable custom in such cases, betaken themselves to the dry diggings, or started for Tambaroora Creek. One of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE have to report but little intelligence of interest from the gold fields during the past week. No new discoveries or tidings of extraordinary success will distinguish the present circular from many of its predecessors…
Continued on Trove, page 353 →The following consignments of gold were received by Escort and mails during the last week. From Major's Creek, 148 ozs. 19 dwts.; Boll's Creek, 42 ozs. 2 dwts.; Goulburn, 205 ozs. 15…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following are the official papers, being the Provisional Regulations, and the agreement between the natives and the Government, for the management of the Gold…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Whereas, arrangements have been made by the Colonial Government with the Native Owners of certain portions of land in the neighbourhood of Coromandel, in the district of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE have been requestel by Mr. M'Euchern to publish the following letter addressed by him to the Colonial Secretary on the subject of the contemplated export duty upon gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Several parties from Bingera have recently reached Maitland, and they unite generally in the statement that water has now got very scarce there, but that some of the few diggers who preserved at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mr. J. MACARTHUR brought up the amended report of the select committee on the Gold Regulation Bill. Ordered to be printed. TAMBAROURA MINERS' PETITON…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE expressions of obloquy which on a recent occasion escaped the lips of Messrs. Wentworth and M'Leay in the Legislative Council, in considering the sum…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have not much additional intelligence from the northern gold fields. The reports continue that the number of diggers on the Hanging Rock and Peel are greatly decreased, partly by the diggers leaving for the harvest, and partly by the reported richness…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The news from Bell's Paddock is this week even more encouraging that previously received. Large quantities of gold are being procured, and the metal is found pretty equally distributed. The most perfect order prevails. In Bell's Creek, some of the…
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