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SIR—With reference to the letter of Mr. J. I. Mitchell, Secretary to the Great Nugget Vein Gold Mining Company, which appeared in your issue of this day's date, calling on the, in my…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN,—With reference to the letter of Mr. J. S. Mitchell, Secretory to the Grat Nugget Vein Gold Mining Company, calling on me in my oflicinl capacity to give an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since, my last communication there have been one or two circumstances worth recording. One is the discovery of a rich new locality between Spring Creek and the Nine Mile Creek, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE second reading of the Bill for amending the Gold Fields' Management Act stands early on the paper. We have already expressed our senste of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The demand for gold during the week has not been so great as the previous, owing to the accounts received from England of the results of sales, by the Roxburgh Castle, from Port Phillip. On our own gold,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The quantities coming forward are far short of the demand, and, notwithstanding the very unsatisfactory account sales some houses have received of shipments made of Port Phillip adulterated gold, there are many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE HERALD of Wednesday last, exhibits, a strange anomaly. A change has certainly come o'er the spirit of its dream, with respect to the management of the gold fields of this colony. A few short…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There is really very little to communicate upon purely mining matters. The claims on the river bed, in front of Sofala, have all been taken during the week. This is now the most populous working portion of the Turon, bat as the claims are newly opened…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There has been little doing in the gold market this week; the quantity offered in town has been small, and last Ballarat escort was the least that has been known for some time. However, this was fully expected, as…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The anticipations of many parties anxious to purchase, that gold would recede in price after the sailing of the Harbinger, have been disappointed by the banks adding 1/2 per cent. premium to their drafts. This had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR—In the Sydney morning papers of the 14th instant, I observed a letter, headed "The Gold Act and its Amendments," signed by Gideon S. Lang, Hunter River…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The past week has been by no means fertile in incidents of importance at the Ovens diggings. The monotonous routine of life usual here has been little varied,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GENTLEMEN,—In accordance with your request I now give more in full than in my previous letter on the Gold Act, my reasons for still advocating the imposition of the Gold License…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Sunday evening the Northern Gold Escort arrived in Maitland, on its way from Tam worth to Sydney. It only escaped another detention of two or three days at Murrurundi through…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GENTLEMEN,—A natural reluctance to enter into controversy, and still more to contend with arguments emanating from self-interst and illiberality, has deterred me hitherto from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is the Petition presented to the Legislative Council, by Mr. Thurlow, on Tuesday evening:— To the Honourable the Legislative Council of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have decidedly cheering reports from all quarters this week. The Turon bed claims have taken a fresh start, the yield at our northern diggings continues steady, the south has sent up a larger quantity this week than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The anticipations of many parties anxious to purchase, that gold would recede in price after the sailing of the Harbinger, have been disappointed by the banks adding 1/2 per cent. premium to their drafts…
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