The Northern Gold Fields
The following information is supplied by correspondents to the Maitland Mercury:HANGING ROCK. Hanging Rock, January 3, 1853…
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Sydney Gold Escort Company. Departure of the Escort
YESTERDAY, pursuant to arrangement, the new gold escort started from the Exchangerooms, George-street, on their first journey to the Ovens. His Excellency the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Auckland Gold Field. (From the Southern Cross, December 21.)
EVEAY successive arrival from Coromande tends but the more firmly to establih the fact that an available gold field has actually been discovered. We have no desire to excite a ruch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. (From the Maitland Mercury.) Hanging Rock. Hanging Rock, January 3, 1853
THE river diggine are almost deserted, and will I fear prove quite a failure. Oakanville Creek is at present the only remunerative spot; on Nuggety Gully many parties are doing well…
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THE following amusing and exceedingly flowery description of the prospects of this Company appeared in an advertisement in the Times, September 4th:…
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Mr. Hunt has gathered some fresh information on the present demand for the precious metal, which leads him to the conclusion that the value of the metal will be but little altered: --…
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The most important circumstance connected with our golden records of the week is the de parture of the Private Escort. This corps mustered in full uniform on Thursday according to…
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The receipt of gold from our mines during the past week shows a considerable increase on our last returns, and may be taken as evidence of the diggers having set to work again in earnest…
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The arrivals of gold from Port Phillip have been very limited, the usual quantities have come to hand from our mines—and prices fully maintained, as will be seen by our sales during the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Foreigners in the Mines
The law passed by the Legislative Council for the exaction of a double license from foreigners in the mines has excited general disapprobation, not only in Sydney but throughout the country at large. In this commercial metropolis it is viewed as a needless…
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By the armed Escort from the Southern diggings, which arrived yesterday, the following consignments of gold were brought in and deposited at the Treasury:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Cotton Cultivation and the Gold Mines. To the Editor of the Daily News. Letter Iv
Sir—It is a beautiful arrangement of Divine Providence that gold mining has, in every country in which the precious metal has hitherto been discovered, been a mere…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Coromandel Gold Diggings
MATTERS have progressed slowly, but surely, at Coromandel since my last communication. There never, in all probability, was a gold field which has been treated with such…
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We are without further news from the northern gold fields, except a brief note from a digger at the Rooky River, who writes, "I have been at all the diggings in this colony, and prospected over the country a distance of 1,300 miles, and I can assure you…
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The Christmas holidays have passed on quietly and peaceably, and work is again resumed; that work still continues profitable. Our last two escorts have taken down about 2000 ounces, and I imagine this is a larger average for a fortnight's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Intelligence. the Turon
Notwithstanding the numerous arrivals which are daily taking place little difference can as yet be perceived at any of the points or bars of the Turon. The population appears almost as thiny scattered as ever exempt in the neighbourhood of Mundy Point, to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How Long Will Our Gold Fields Last?
MANY are tormenting themselves with the idea of our mines being wrought out in a short time. What grounds are there on which to fear such a catastrophe? We care not for the ignorant croaker; but what says the man of science? The philosopher regards the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Maoris and the New Zealand Gold Discoveries. (From the Maori Messenger.)
A MEETING of the Maories recently took place at Patapata, Coromandel Harbour. Present on this occasion—His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, his Lordship the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agreement Between the Government and Native Tribes for the Management of Gold Fieids on the Thames, for the Term of Three Years
1. That one system be adopted for the regulation of all persons searching and digging of gold received from Cape Colville and Kaudiranga…
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