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GENTLEMEN,—In your publication of Thursday last appeared a letter from a correspondent, relating to the proposed new regulation, which will, if passed, enable a local…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No appreciable increase of business is noticeable this week. In consequence of the late heavy rains the gold arriving is small in quantity, and the diggers, in many places, have suspended operations. The exchange…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE market has been unusually dull during the week, but as only small lots are coming forward, prices have not given way. From Port Phillip we may expect very little, as the prices ruling there are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Another dull week in the gold market has closed. The price has continued at 77s. Since the report four weeks ago of the quantity of gold shipped by the Roxburgh Castle, the vessel that left after her, viz., the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The price this week has been steady at 77s. 3d., but at this date there is an appearance of its declining. The demand has lulled for the presents. The appearance of the different diggings in the meantime is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following consignments of gold were received at the Treasury yesterday, by the Escort from the Western Diggings. The Escort was delayed in consequence of the break down of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We were not a little surprised on reading the debate on the Finances to observe that the hon. member for Cook and Westmoreland had uttered such bitter invectives at the mining community. "Turbulent democrats," "discontented…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR, -- The toe of the polished boot against the mouth of the gold miner is no longer visible -- even our Colonial Secretary concedes some attention to his petition: and the most blatant of our wool growing legislators see "some reason in his petition."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Within the last day or two fine weather has succeeded to the miserable series of wet days and nights of the previous fortnight. Blue skies and bright sunshine are at all times delightful…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The price of gold remains at 77s., and the quantity offered for sale has been readily purchased. Following up the first quarterly statements, ending March last, of the amount of gold brought by escorts to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The price this week has declined a little, 77s. being new the buying figure, and with appearance of being still lower. It is perfectly evident that even the present quotation is an extreme one, and can only be given when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The researches of the Rev. W. B. Clarke over portions of this extensive district have been followed with very beneficial effects, and prospectors are now scattered abroad, from the encouraging…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Evan Hopkins, whose letter on the decline of the Victoria gold fields appeared in a recent issue of the Argus, is the manager of an English gold mining company. Mr. Hopkins came but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SPANISH avarice and Spanish, mi[?]rule are proverbial all over the world, and especially in their relation to the possession and managemet of their gold mines on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent from this locality writing in the Goulburn Herald, of Saturday, communicates the following under date July 4:—"My weekly budget will contain but few items of information…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New South Wales........ 3 15 0 Vitoria................ 3 1[?] to 3 17 Ovens.................. 3 1[?] to 3 17 California.............. 3 8 0…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The non-arrival of mall and escorts again leaves us without news of importance from the gold fields. We have just seen a sample of gold from the Black Range, a few miles from Albury; it is fine nuggety gold, of good…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The gold market this week has been more active. But very little gold now reaches us from the sister colony, in consequence of the price in Melbourne approximating to the rates in this market; and the flooded state of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The demand for gold is in excess of the supply, and prices have again advanced a little during the week. The quantities coming forward have been very limited, and until the weather gets more settled we may expect…
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