Mining Intelligence. Turon
SHEEP STATION POINT, FEBRUARY 16.—A robbery of a rather daring nature took place on Saturday evening, in the town of Sofala. It appears that between eight and nine o'clock…
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The Gold and the Speculators
About a fortnight since we published an extract of a letter from Messrs. Dunbar and Sons, of London, to their correspondents here, Messrs. Smith, Campbell, and Co., advising the sale of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gold Fields. the Turon. (From the Bathurst Free Press.)
THE decline of the fortunes of the Turon appears to be proceeding with rapid strides. Some of the points are now entirely deserted; and except that they bear the indelible marks of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Intelligence. Sofala. (From a Correspondent.) Turon River, February 17th
Animation begins to assume its wonted vigour again on the Turon At the race, below Harbottle's, all the parties are busy at work; this, however, is the only part of the bed of the river…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Extracts. the Effects of the Gold Discovery. (From Belts Weekly Messenger, November 15.)
IT is not a little diverting, while at the same time it is highly instructive, to observe the various grimaces and contortions of some of our Free-trade contemporaries who pin their…
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I send you my weekly statement of the sales of Gold at auction, from which it will be seen the rise in price 1 anticipated did not take place. This I attribute to the banks having, for the…
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By the Havering, from London, on Monday last, we have advices to the 17th November, and it is gratifying to find that the fact of gold existing in Australia was beginning to produce a wonderful effect in the mother…
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THE "Reign of Terror," to which Chief Justice A'Beckett so emphatically alluded in his charge to the Jury upon the opening of the Supreme Court, has indeed commenced at the gold…
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LATE accounts from the Turon gold field are generally of a most unfavourable character. The dry diggings have boen exbausted, and the flooded state of the river…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. the Gold and the Speculators. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—In your issue of this morning see account sales of 249 ozs. of gold shipped from this by Messrs. Smith, Campbell, and Co., wherein I see no credit given for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Original Correspondence. To the Editor of Bell's Life in Sydney. Gold Commissioners Office, Sofala, 13th February, 1852
Gentlemen.—Having forwarded a copy of the annexed letter to the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald for insertion in their journal, and the same not having appeared: may I…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, February 21, 1852. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the English Press on Australian Gold
THE absorbing topic in the British newspapers, at the latest dates, was the discovery of the Australian Eldorado; and we may rest assured that the topic to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Carcoar Gold Field. (From our Correspondent.)
I hasten to inform you that a gold field has been discovered in the Carcoar Di[?]trict, on the Belubula River, by Jeffries' prospecting party of three. A sample of the gold was brought into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Intelligence. the Maneroo and Mitta Mitta Gold Fields. (From the Bathurst Free Press.)
A Correspondent from Maneroo concludes a business letter addressed to us with the following intelligence about the golden prospects of his own district:…
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UPPER WALLABY, 19TH FEBRUARY.—Last evening we returned from the neighbourhood of the Dirt Hole Creek, after a laborious and fruitless search alter gold for better than a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Extracts. the Gold Question. (From the Times.)
There was an arrival to-day of upwards of £70,000 in gold from St. Petersburgh. The question as to the probable effects of an abundance of gold is again in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Carcoar Gold Field. Belabula River, Friday Evening, February 13th, 1852
In my former communication from Carcoar, I stated that it was more than probable that [?]re many days elapsed it would be my pleasing task to announce the discovery of a profitable gold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. Sir R. I. Murchison and the Australian Gold Fields. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—Being a day or two ago at Bombala, I was favoured by a sight of your paper of the 3rd instant. I read therein an article, reprinted from the English. Examiner, in which…
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