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Mining & the mines, 1853

822 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 42

The Gold Regulations. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 24 March 1853 · page 3

SIR—Your correspondent "A Lover of Order," in to-day's paper, complains that you have stigmatised it as unconstitutional that a Commissioner should be allowed to demand a satisfactory…

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The Northern Gold Fields. (From the Maitland Mercury.) Hanging Rock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 March 1853 · page 2

MARCH 7.—Our numbers here are steadily increasing, several parties having arrived durinthe past week. The lower end of Oakenville Creek seems to be the favourite spot selected…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, March 24, 1853. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I" the Gold Mania in England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 March 1853 · page 2

THE advices brought by the Chusan were of more than ordinary importance. Two of the events of which these advices have apprised us would, under…

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The Gold Fields[?] (From the Argus.) REPORT

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 March 1853 · page 2

THE Select Committee of the Legisl[?] Council, appointed on the 7th December, 1[?] to inquire into, and report upon, the Man[?] ment of the Gold Fields of Victoria, have[?]…

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Gold Circular

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 March 1853 · page 2
Also in Empire

The market this week has been more active, and the General Hewett obtained 30,000 ounces of dust, which shipments tended to keep prices for Victoria £3 17s. 3d., and New South Wales £3 15s, at which price several…

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Gold Regulations Petition

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 26 March 1853 · page 5

The following answer to the Petition of the inhabitants of Sydney against the new Gold Regulations, has been received by the Right Worshipful the Mayor: -- "Colonial Secretary's Office,…

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Commercial Intelligence. Gold Circular

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 March 1853 · page 2

OUR Western Gold Fields are quite bare of new this week, the only circumstance worthy of note being a fall in the price to 72s. 6d. The same may be siid of Braidwood and its neighbourhood where gold is now quoted at…

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Mining Intelligence. Ophir

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 26 March 1853 · page 6

"Give a dog a bad name, and you might as well hang him," is an old saying which may be applied to the gold mines in the immediate vicinity of Ophir, for its having fallen into disfavor with diggers generally, from the labour required to bring the precious…

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Domestic Intelligence. Gold Field. (From Yesterday's Government Gazette.) PROCLAMATION

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 March 1853 · page 2

In pursuance of the power vested in me in this behalf, I, Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, the Governor-General aforesaid, do hereby proclaim that the following shall be deemed…

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Gold News. (From the Australian and New Zealand Gazette, December 24

Empire · Saturday 26 March 1853 · page 3

It is not an unfrequent remark in the Australian papers that the writers there of are not astonished at anything, so marvellous are the faets continually presenting themselves. We in…

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The Gold Fields. (From our Special Reporter.) No. 3. Tarcutta, March 20th, 1853

Empire · Saturday 26 March 1853 · page 2

The nearest post town to the Adelong is Tumut, situated on the river of the same name. The road which the traveller follows for twenty miles after leaving the…

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The Empire. Wednesday, March 30, 1853. the Australian Agricultural Company's Gold Fields

Empire · Wednesday 30 March 1853 · page 2

THE excitement raised in England by the extraordinary fictions respecting the auriferous territories of the Australian Agricultural Company appears, as far as can be…

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The Southern Gold Fields. the Braidwood Diggings. (From our own Correspondent.) No. IV

Empire · Wednesday 30 March 1853 · page 3

The Mongarlowe, or, as it is usually called, the Little River, is distant from Braidwood about ten miles. It materially differs in its geological character from those auriferous localities I have…

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The Gold Fields. Report of the Victoria Legislature

Empire · Thursday 31 March 1853 · page 3

The Select Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 7th December, 1852, to inquire into, and report upon, the Management of the Gold Fields of Victoria, have to express their…

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Arrival of Gold

Empire · Friday 1 April 1853 · page 2

By advices received at the Colonial Treasury, we learn that the following parcels of gold were forwarded to Sydney by the Esco[?]t from the Western Diggings. The Escort did not arrive at…

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Gold Circulars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 April 1853 · page 5
Also in The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List

THE departure of our old friend the Chusan to-day, with a mail for England, renders the present a desirable opportunity of reviewing our position for the information of friends at home, a proceeding doubly necessary from the…

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Gold Circular

Empire · Saturday 2 April 1853 · page 2

A more sasisfactory state of things is growing up in the Metropolitan market for gold dust. During the week the price, which had advanced beyond what the legitimate interests of trade…

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New Zealand Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 April 1853 · page 4

MR. J. J. MONTEFIORE has a very singular spe cimen of New Zealand Gold. It is of a dark brassy look, and at first sight appears like gold ore, the quartz and gold being so intimately…

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