Lay of a Disappointed Gold Digger
Tell me no more of "digging," pray—I'll dig, I swear, no more; Ore was my search by night and day, and now my search is o'er;…
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The Suffering Squatter Findeth a Gold Field. (Per favour of the Sydney Morning Herald.)
GENTLEMEN,—I have not this long time past raised my suffering voice! No, I have been very slily occupied with pick and pan in mountain, gorge, and galley, caring very little for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English News. the Gold of Australia. (From the Illustrated News, October 11.)
There is no longer any room to doubt that gold in considerable, if not arge quantities, has been discovered on the surface of the ground in the district of Bathurst, in Australia. The first…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Gold Mines. (From our Special Reporter.) Turon River, January, 26th, 1852
The past week, the third in the month, has been signalized by the tardy activity and zeal of the Commissioners and police in hunting up the defaulters in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Sales
THE buyers of gold are in great spirits at the news received yesterday. Several specimens of Ophir gold, assayed in London, were found to be five per cent…
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The following is an extract from a letter received yesterday, by Messrs. Smith, Campbell, and Co. "Your Gold per Thomas Arbuthnot, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bathurst Mining Company
THE usual half-yearly meeting of this Company, was held on Thursday, the 29th ult., Mr. HENRY ROTTON, in the Chair. The following Report of the Directors was read:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →English Extracts. the Australian Gold Field Predicted. (From the Ex[?]miner.)
The history of the discovery of the Australian gold is remarkable and instructive. The true discoverer is a man of science, who, sitting in his study, at tho distance of some fifteen thousand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. an Answer to the "Herald." on the [?]Ights of Miners. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—In my last letter to you I announced my intention of replying to certain articles which appeared last week in the Herald respecting the rights of miners on private lands, and in which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Abuse of Patronage at the Gold-mines
WITH much reluctance we yielded to a sense of duty in pointing out in our last number the evils that must ensue from an injudicious (to use the mildest term) exercise of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Gold Fields. Braidwood
JANUARY 31.—Some of our hard-working diggers have been of late enjoying a success that must have quite rewarded all their toil, and realized their most sanguine expectations. They…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Visible Effects of Gold-seeking on Society
IN that very entertaining book " Boswell's Life of Johnson" an anecdote is related, as tracing the origin of an admirable paper in the Rambler on the "evils of slavery." The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Country News. Gold in the Town of Bathurst
Local discoveries of gold are of such frequent occurrence, that unless Extraordinary results can be shown, they cease to attract more than ordinary attention. Some five or six months ago we informed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Gold Mines. (From our Special Reporter.) Turon River. February 3rd, 1852
The chief occurrence of the past week, and the one, most generally affecting the mines, on the river, has been the extensive flooding of the Turon to a more serious,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold in Australia. to the Editor of the Times
SIR—A short time age I observed in your journal some remarks of Mr. Clarke on the late discovery of gold in Australia, in which he exposes the fulfilment of his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →First Arrival of Gold From Australia. (From the Globe.)
THE dove from the stranded Australian ark, the Thomas Arbuthnot, arrives, bearing—not an olive branch—but a lump of gold 4¼ lbs weight, consigned to Mr. Dunbar, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. an Answer to the Herald on the Rights of Miners. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR.—In my letter of the 2nd instant I entered [?]pon a review of the legal argument of the Herald in opposition to the views put forth by [?] in my former letters on this subjcet; and I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coombing Copper Mine
The mine is situate on the estate of Thomas Icely, Esq., at Coombing, about two miles W.S.W. of Carcoar. Its geological position is upon an "Elvan"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Circular
In consequence of the unprecedented in[?]udation of the Turon," a very small quantity of gold arrived this Week, aa will he seen by the following statement, of my public sale. The amount…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Circulars
The present has been rather an eventful week, occasioned by the receipt of advices from London with assays and account sales of the gold shipped per Thomas Arbuthnot and Lady Clarke, which shew a result highly…
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