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822 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 42
Since my last report we have had many arrivals, and numbers who intended coming here on reaching Tamworth turned off to Bingara, in consequence of some reports of individual success there. I have every reason to believe, from a letter I received…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—I feel in my own mind that I have an important duty to perform in justice to myself and the publick at large to lay before you a correspondence I had between me and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NAPOLEON, pointing to the Pyramids of Egypt, exclaimed to his troops "Five thousand years look down upon you." The people of Geelong may point to what her people has done, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The transactions of the week have been limited in consequence of the small supply, very little coming up from Port Phillip since the advance in the Melbourne market. The markets closed this afternoon at £3 17s. for Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE price of gold advanced this week from 74s. to 76s. 6d. and 77s. per oz. previous to tho sailing of the Sarah Sands, the banks having suddenly raised the price of their drafts on London to par. On completion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE western mines continue to afford a fair field to those who remain upon them, and there is but little falling-off in the quautity sent down this week by escort. Private advices from the south notice a falling-off in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—I request the insertion of a few observations upon an evil caused by the discovery of gold in this country, whereby many persons of blameless character, exemplary conduct, and a high…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The transaction of the week have been limited, in consequence of the small supply, very little coming up from Port Phillip since the advance in the Melbourne market. The market closed this…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The following letters are published in the Maitland Mercury of the 19th instant. THE HANGING ROCK. Hanging Rock, February 14…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN,—There are some features in the late Gold Fields Management Act which I have been in hopes of seeing made a subject of discussion in your paper…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE passions of men are generally so far in excess as to render their possessors blind to the consequences of their actions, and to enclose their perceptions, as it were,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The quantities of gold offered for sale this week have been limited, and owing to the rates of exchange having gone to 1 per cent, premium, gold has again increased in price, and may now be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?] mining news for the week from the west is very here. Numbers still continue to quit those districts, which is the more to be lamented, as the season has been extremely favourable for the development of their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The gold market during the week has exhibited little signs of animation, and the business transacted has been small. The larger parcels of gold having been cleared off, operations sensibly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BY the armed escort, from the Western Diggings, the following amounts of gold were received at the Treasury on Thursday:- BATHURST. ozs.dwts.grs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A new spot has been found on the hill opposite the Commissioner's, where the parties are doing well. A large space has been "pegged out" in claims to be worked during the next week. No doubt the place is rich, the stuff already washed having yielded an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT has long been a matter of dispute whether or not silver in this colony is a legal tender for a larger sum than forty shillings. The general impression has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE counsel every man who is bent on trying his fortune at the mines to refrain from turning his face towards those in the Colony of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The following letters appear in the Maitland Mercury of Saturday last:- HANGING ROCK. February 18, 1853…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As the management of the gold fields has become, a subject of leading interest, we publish the following abstract of the provisions of the Act now in force in the colony of Victoria,…
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