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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…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The rocks or country as the miners term the strata in which the lodes occur, are principally composed of clay-slate, chlorite, and talcose schists, with veins of quartz. No elvan has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE gold brought down under escort from Mount Alexander to Melbourne on the 29th ultimo was 16,070 ounces. Scenes of violence and plunder are on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Weekly Chronicle speaks thus of the late intelligence from these colonies. Not only says that journal, is an anouncement of the discoveries of gold in Australia confirmed, but…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE GOLD ESCORTS.—The escort from Ballarat arrived at the Treatury yesterday about two o'clock, bringing 17 oz 15 dwts, and 12 grains of gold. Up to a late hour, the Mount…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If an earthquake had devastated the region of the Turon, its effects could scarcely have been more disastrous than those occasioned by the floods of the past week. On Sunday the 25th instant the rain set in, and by the following morning the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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 our readers that a piece of quartz had been found in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In one very important respect there is a great difference between California and the Australian province in which gold has, just been discovered. California was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE have been favoured by Mr. Thomas Banister with the following communication, recently addressed by him to the Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria on the Gold Question…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The discoveries of gold in Australia are at last authenticated beyond the need of further confirmation. Lumps of native gold have been publicly exhibited in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →UPPER WALLABY, FEBRUARY 6.—On Saturday last. I started in company with Mr. Walton, of our party, for the Dirt Hole Creek, and after managing to cross the river by the Wallaby,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A district in Austrolia, on the western limits of colonisation, beyond the difficult passes of the mountains in which the river Macquarie, and some of the feeders of the river Lachlan take…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OUR readers will remember that a few days since we commented on what appeared great remissness on the part of Mr. JOHNSON, the Assistant Gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By a new arrangement the Escort from the Southern Diggings came in yesterday, instead of arriving last friday. By this conveyance the following consignments of Gold were received at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FEBRUARY 2.—The heavy rains that prevailed during the last week in this district of the diggings have resulted not in misery and distress amongst the diggers as might by some be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →February 5.—My former remarks on the alleged extortion of the gold buyers have provoked a writer in the Goulburn Herald to edify its readers, in a long article headed "Buyers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Much has been written by us on the unerring indication shown of the presence of gold in our immediate locality, yet we are sorry to have to record that the apathy of our townspeople, united to the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SIR—As you are aware, I proceeded, in obedience to the desire of his Excellency the Governor, expressed in your letter No. 51-268, and dated 21st May, to ascertain by actual survey,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During the past week affairs on the Turon have been slowly resuming somewhat of their former appearance, though it is but a very faint resemblance of the past…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The rocks or country as the miners term the strata in which the lodes occur are principally composed of Clay-state," Chlorite, and Talcose schists with veins Of quartz. No Elvan has yet…
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