Gold Digging License Fee
IF in the honest discharge of our public duty, we have been sometimes obliged to censure the acts and proceedings of the Legislative Council, we did so always with…
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Mining Intelligence. the Turon
The extraordinary paragraph contained in the opening speech of Lieutenant Governor La Trobe to his Legislative Council recommending a total abolition of the license fee has caused some excitement amongst our Turon politicians. When we consider the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bell's Life in Sydney Saturday, September 21, 1853. The New Gold Regulations
On Tuesday last Mr W. C. Wentworth, as Chairman of the Select Committee appointed in the Legislative Council to amend the Bill for regulating the management of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Paper. Report From the Select Committee on the Gold Fields Management Bill
THE SELECT COMMITTEE of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 8th of June last, to whom was referred a Bill to amend the Act for regulating the management of the Gold Fields for their consideration and report thereon, have agreed as follows: --…
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THERE has been no news worthy of special record from the gold fields since our last. This, however, is counterbalanced by the importance of transactions in town, the new Bill for regulating our gold fields having passed…
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The price of gold has advanced this week from 76s, to 70s. 9d., the demand for shipment by the Victoria increasing, as the time of her departure draws near. The demonstration by the diggers at Bendigo has not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, September 26, 1853, 'Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I.' the Gold Gratuities
THE evidence taken by the Select Committee on the Gold Fields Management Bill establishes the claim of Messrs. LISTER, and WILLIAM and JAMES…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Legislative Fallacies on the Gold Fields
BEFORE dismissing the Subject of the Gold License, we wish to clear it of a few remaining fallacies, broached in the Legislative Council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gold Gratuities. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—In your leading article of this day's date, on the subject of "gold gratuities," you state that the evidence taken before the Select Committee on the Gold Fields Management Bill establishes the claim of William…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide New Bank—and the Royal Proclamation Declaring Gold Only a Legal Tender in Sums To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—I am delighted to find that the proposed incorporation of a new bank in the colony has attracted the notice of a correspondant in the Empire of this day, under the signature of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Trade. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR,—Knowing that your paper is open to the exposure of all gross abuses, I take the liberty of bringing before the notice of the public (with your good leave) the following, apparently to me…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Colony of Victoria. (From the Argus, September 23) the Gold Fields
The improvement reported in our last summary has become more decided. The Goulburn diggings, from which fattering accounts were received about five weeks ago, have not fulfilled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Sydney Morning Herald. Friday, September 30, 1853. 'Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I.' the New Gold Act
We heartily congratulate the diggers on the fact, that on Wednesday last this important measure was assented to "in the name and on the behalf of Her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Gold Circular
The price of gold has advanced this week from 76s. to 76s. 9d., the demand for shipment by the Victoria in increasing, as the time of her departure draws near. The demonstration by the diggers a Bendigo has not been made…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Gold Discoverer
In reading that portion of the report of the Gold Committee referring to the gratuities to be awarded to Mr. Hargraves, and to the Messrs. Toms and Lister, it is quite evident that the writer of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining Intelligence. Tambaroora
One of the finest [?]uggets ever obtained in the Turon region was dug up at the Golden Gulley a few days ago by a man who by general consent wears the title of Duke, and another named Wright. It is very pure, not much unlike the first Ophir nugget in shape…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Gold Fields Management Amendment Act
THE following are the provisions of the new Act for the regulation of the gold fields. The first clause repeals the fifth, sixth, and seventh sections of the former Act, and f[?]es…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Northern Gold Fields. the Escort
On Sunday evening the northern gold escort reached Maitland, on its way from Tamworth to Sydney, after an interval of four weeks, conveying the following quantity of gold:—…
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