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Upwards of 1000 diggers are scattered over the different goldfields in this district. Nothing very important, or worthy of any special notice, has occurred since my last communication. Some dry diggings near the Commissioners' tent at Major's Creek are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I have just returned from a visit to the Hanging Rock. The Peel, and the Swamp Creek on the Rock, are nearly deserted, but there are about six hundred people crowded on Hookanvil, and on the dry diggings which are along the road on the top of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SONARA, Jan. 30, 1853.—The bill introduced by Mr. Myers to repeal the present law, entitled an act for the protection of foreign miners, and to substitute another more stringent in its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The market during this week has been more than usually animated, owing chiefly to the disposition to ship by the Wooloomooloo, which vessel will take away 40,000 to 45,000 ounces of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have but little news from the West this week; the prominent points being the Meroo and the Cudgegong. Many parties have left these places, but those who respain are doing very well. On Maitland Bar one party…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There has been a little animation in the market during the week, and many parties are anxious to purchase for shipment, per Woolloomooloo, which has caused a slight increase in price, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In reference to the diggings in general, I may observe the reaction which I mentioned as likely to occur, in reference to Major's Creek, has actually taken place, and upwards of 100 new claims have been issued in that locality. Work has not been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At half-past seven on Wednesday evening, as a respectable young man named Antony was crossing the gully which intervenes between the Church of England and Sofale, he was met by two men, one of whom felled him to the ground with some…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Although from my long silence you may think I have forgotten the MERCURY, I beg to assure you such is not the case. I will briefly inform you that the Rocky still Maintain their character for plentiful production to those who really work with steady industry…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following correspondence has been published by the Argus, and as it contains some points of interest, we copy it into our columns:— Resident Commissioner's Office,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following new code of Gold Regulations for the colony of Victoria, has been issued by Lieutenant-Governor La Trobe.:— Colonial Secretary's Office,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The following consignments of gold were received by Escort at the Treasury yesterday morning, from the Northern diggings:— HANGING ROCK…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To appreciate the immense and blessed influence of this event upon the happiness and prospects of mankind, we have only to suppose that it had not taken place, and consider what…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some time since, in apprising our readers of our intention to defer a more scrutinizing inquiry into the arguments of the supporters of this clause of the late Gold Act, until the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The demand for gold has been brisk during the week, and prices maintained. Though the Banks have declined buying, they offer inducements for private individuals by advancing 65s. per ounce,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The desirable opportunity for shipping afforded by the Woolloomooloo gave an animation to the market which has to some extent disappeared since the departure of that vessel, and little gold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following new code of gold regulations for the colony of Victoria has been published in the Victoria Government Gazette:— Colonial Secretary's Office,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The excitement caused by the New Gold Regulations seems entirely to have subsided, and many of the journals, which a short time ago devoted their editorial articles to the exposure of the errors and fallacies of class legislation -- the unjust arid tyrannical…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →For crossing the Murray, at Albury with our horse and cart, we paid seven shillings. This is something more moderate than the charge at Gundagai, for…
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