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The sun has set on the year 1852, a year memorable in the annals of this colony as one of almost unexampled prosperity! In the brief space of 18 months, Australia has sprung forward to a prominent place in the galaxy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The demand for gold during the week has been animated, and former rates fully maintained, as will be seen by our quotations of sales since our last report, as follows:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The intelligence from the mines, up to this date, shows rather unfavourably as to yield. At the different Diggings under the head of Mount Alexander, there is a decided full off, which can…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The price of gold has advanced 3d. this week. It is now 70s. firm. The demand for it has been active, principally for shipment by the Great Britain and the Shamrock. It is well known that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have not much additional news from the northern diggings. A gentleman who has just come down from Barraba says the diggers at Bingera were doing very well; he has brought down a small quantity of gold of the nuggety character that usually…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Numbers have returned from the other diggings, but still nothing has been discovered. I have no doubt, however, that if parties prospect persevering about Tambaroora, they will be rewarded. There has been much talk about the diggings on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dec, 21.--There is no falling off in the success enjoyed by our diggers. At Major's Creek there has not been quite so much done lately as in other favoured localities, still some are reaping a rich harvest even there, and all are making fair wages. 'Mr. Wallis'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WE extract the following from the New Zealander of the 15th ultimo:- The sale of gold announced in our last took place on Saturday, and from the novelty and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following are the consignments of gold received in town during the past week:—From Major's Creek, 260½ ozs.; Goulburn, 72 ozs., 3 dwts., 18 grs.; Braidwood, 673 ozs., 18 dwts.;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE fraud which appears to be practised at Melbourne, on the purchasers of gold, by the imposition of a spurious, or at least deeply alloyed article, is a circumstance of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE first public sale of gold, the product of this province, was held at our Auction Mart, on Saturday, 11th instant. The parcel offered for sale comprised about six ounces of gold dust, and about ten ounces of auriferous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A WELL-KNOWN mercantile gentleman in Sydney forwarded to England, in the beginning of last year, a specimen of the "auriferous ironstone" found on what is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Proofs continue to accumulate, not only of the productiveness of the Coromandel diggings, but also of the extent of country which there is increasing reason to expect will, on proper…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Although I cannot spare time for going out to our diggings, I give you all the information I can gather, and for the correctness of which I give you my voucher. All those who work…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the present time, when a rather perverse combination of circumstances has imparted much interest to the facts relating to the discovery of gold in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The first public sale of gold, the product of this, province, was held at our Auction Mart, on Saturday, 11th instant. The parcel offered for sale comprised about six ounces of gold dust, and about ten…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Every week the success of the diggers is more and more marked. It is true no extraordinary instance, of good luck has occurred to derange the mind of the finder; but we have what is better-sure and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Although I cannot spare time for going out to our diggings, I will give you all the information I can gather, and for the correctness of which I give you my voucher. All those who work perseveringly are…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In consequence of the scarcity of water here many people have left these diggings for the Rocky River and other parts. I should suppose there are not more than sixty or seventy men…
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