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The 12th February is a "white" day in the annals of Australia. It was on that date in the Annus Mirabilis, 1851, that Mr. Hargraves first discovered gold near Bathurst, and proved the correctness of his conolusions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN consequence of the advanced rates in the Melbourne market, and the suspension of mining operations in the principal fields on our own side, very little gold dust has been received in Sydney during the past week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The price of gold during the week has still been edging upwards; at present the quotation is from 73s. 3rd. to 73s. 6d., with a steady demand for the article. The intelligence from the different…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold has continued on the rise during the week. It oponed at 73s., and left off at 74s. There has been a very animated market, and a large amount of business dore at the above rates…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two years ago this day Mr. Hargraves found his first specimen of Australian gold at Summer-hill Creek. To-day will be observed at the Government offices as a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jan. 30. -- Although we have not many in numbers, still there is plenty of gold, and those who have not been lured away by the attractions of the Ovens have accumulated in most instances a few hundreds, which they never could have realised in a small way of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our wise men in council assembled have nearly put a finish to our diggings. The new act came very opportunely when other causes made our diggers dissatisfied and were half disposed to try their luck in a distant land, where gold is reported to be much…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JAN. 31. -- It is anticipated that close upon 1000 licenses will be issued to-morrow; the majority will be for Bell's Paddock, at which great and uninterrupted success is being enjoyed; indeed it is at the present time universally acknowledged to be the most…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Twenty-five miles from our township, there are about 200 persons at work washing the drift on the banks of the Adelong creek. All are getting gold in quantities sufficient to afford very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ARMIDALE, Jan. 27. -- The gold betas at the Rocky are progressing rapidly. The number on the ground is estimated at about 120 persons; 94 licenses have been taken out during the month, but some of the people are very shy of the Commissioner:…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR—When an act, derogatory to the character of a great, although infant country, is almost surreptitiously placed on our Statute book, and immediately, and in defance of strong public…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Twenty-five miles from our township, there are about 200 persons at work washing the drift on the banks of the Adelong Creek. All are getting gold in quantity sufficient to afford very remunerative employment, Fifteen miles above, on the same…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—I feel in my own mind that I have an important duty to perform in justice to myself and the publick at large to lay before you a corrospondance I had between me and a so-called…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mount Alexander, 3rd February, 1853. ACCORDING to the intentions of the local patrons of the National School about to be established at Forest Creek, the ceremony of opening the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →From the late period of the session at which this inquiry commenced, as well as from the extent and more than ordinary importance of the subject under investigation, it has been out of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our publication of to-day teems with potests and remonstrances, individual and collective, against both the lettee and spirit of the new Gold Regulations, It also contnias a variety of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have lately had an appeal made to us, and doubtless also a similar one has been received by many of our readers, in the shape of a circular requesting assistance in the present…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The banquet in celebration of the second Anniversary of the Gold Discovery in Australia was held on Saturday evening, in the saloon of the Royal Hotel. The Hon. E. Deas Thomson,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Second Anniversary of the Australian Gold Discovery was celebrated on Saturday by a public dinner in the saloon of the Royal Hotel. His Excellency the Governor-General,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The accounts from the "gold diggings" become every week more astounding. For some years prior to 1850 the produce of Siberia and the Oural mountains, steadily…
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