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Mining & the mines, 1853

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Original Correspondence. Gold Regulations. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1853 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—I trust you will be able and willing to had room in your paper for the enclosed remarks upon the gold regulations from one who is a practical gold digger of two years…

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The "Gold-digging" License Question

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 3 March 1853 · page 7

The revision and amendment of the "Act" of Council lately passed, fur regulating the license fees for permission to work the gold fields of the colony, must como on for…

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The Diggings. the Northern Gold Tields. Hanging Rook

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 3 March 1853 · page 10

A great deal has been said, and written about the Hanging Rock, and the last escort testified it had good foundation. Several parties in the vicinity of Nuggetty Gully, did well last week…

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Management of the Gold Fields. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 3 March 1853 · page 2

SIR—Through tho intermeddling and class legislation of the Legislative Council, our Gold Fields, hitherto orderly under the regulations of the Executive Council, productive of immense…

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Assay of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 March 1853 · page 2

REPORT from the Select Committee appointed by the Legislative Council of Victoria on the 16th day of July, 1852, to take evidence and report on the expediency of establishing…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Friday, March 4, 1853. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Gold Regulations and the Gold Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 March 1853 · page 2

THE strong objections raised by the diggers and others at Sofala against the Gold Fields Management Act, so far as we can gather, relate principally to the…

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Mr. Beits Plan for Managing the Gold Fields (From the Maitland Mercury, March 2.)

Empire · Friday 4 March 1853 · page 3

Mr. Beit's plan for managing the gold fields of the colony, and raising a revenue from the gold produced, is detailed in a letter which he handed in to the Gold Fields…

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The Northern' Gold Fields. Rocky River Upper Diggings. (From a Correspondent to the Maitland Mercury.) 17th February, 1853

Empire · Friday 4 March 1853 · page 3

From the lower diggings the accounts are becoming every day more favourable, and some of those who have been most fortunate here, have left for there. This is the best field that I know…

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Gold Circular

Empire · Saturday 5 March 1853 · page 3

Our market having been but barely supplied with Victoria and Ovens Gold, the business of the week has been limited. The price has receded, and £3 17s. may now be quoted for Victoria, and…

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Gold Circulars

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 5 March 1853 · page 75

THE quantity of gold brought down this week from our western mines continues satisfactory. At Tambaroora some new diggings of limited extent have been discovered ; they yield from 1 to 4 ounces per day, to parties…

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The Gold Fields

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 5 March 1853 · page 8

IN answer to a requisition from a number of the citizens, the Mayor has convened a public meeting of the inhabitants of the colony, to take into consideration the Act recently passed by the…

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Commercial Intelligence. Gold Circulars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 March 1853 · page 5

THE quantity of gold brought down this week from, our western mines continues satisfactory. At Tambaroora some new diggings of limited extent have been discovered; they yield from 1 to 4 ounces per day, to parties…

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Mining Intelligence. Tambaroora

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 5 March 1853 · page 6

The new diggings have proved rich, to the extent of a very small patch of about sixty claims. Much of the ground has been tried but to no purpose. Those who were fortunate enough to hit on this spot are doing well -- from one to four ounces a day for a…

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The Gold Regulations.—A Misnomer

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 5 March 1853 · page 1

THE demonstration of the mining population of the Western Gold Fields against the enforcement of the New Gold [?]Act, is one paramountly entitled to the…

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Townships on the Gold Fields

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 5 March 1853 · page 6

If we had not the printed evidence of the Legislative Council before us, we would have doubted if even Mr. James Macarthur could have been guilty of contemplated the levying of a specific tax upon persons who had purchased a spot of land in a…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—friday. Equity Jurisdiction. (Before Mr. Justice THERRY, Primary Judge.) the British Australain Gold-mining Company. Davis and Another V. Fawcett and Another

Empire · Saturday 5 March 1853 · page 2

His HONOR gave judgment in this case as follows:— This is a bill filed by Edward Davis and Edward Colquhoun on behalf of themselves and all…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, March 5, 1853. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Gold Regulations and the Gold Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 March 1853 · page 4

YESTERDAY we showed what were the original regulations of the Government of this colony with regard to the amount of the gold-fields' license-fee, and the…

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The Northern Gold Fields

Empire · Monday 7 March 1853 · page 3

The following information is copied from the Maitland Mercury of last Saturday:— ROCKY RIVER…

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