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May 10.âNever since the gold-digging commenced in this district have our minors had less inclination to be dissatisfied. There is a very large quantity of gold now among the diggers,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The price of gold continued at the quotations of last week, viz., 79s. 3d. to 79s. 6d., but towards the end of the week it stood firm at 79s. 6d. For large parcels of Ballarat, a few of which were offered this week, a much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parties mining on the ridges are still doing remarkably well. Two boys got six ounces and seven pennywights of gold during the week on Madgwick's ridge, and every party at work there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →May 23.--From Major's Creek, more particularly the new diggings, I have to give the most encouraging intelligence. All doing well, and many making their £2 a day. The rain which fell on Sunday night bad, to a small extent, replenished the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →OWING to the Race week and the state of the weather, every description of business has been affected, and the demand for gold has been limited, the Banks not now operating. Some demand may be anticipated for the cast, and our quantities which now arrive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Owing to the race week and the unpropitioius weather, every description of business has been affected, and the demand for gold has been limited, the banks not now operating. Some demand may be anticipated for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRAA[?]WOOn —Never since the gold, digging commenced in this district have our miners had less inclination to be dissatisfied. There is a very large quantity of gold now among the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE TURON.—Since [?] last wrote to you, we have experienced a very decided change in the weather. On Sunday evening several thunder showers of unusual violence passed over the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →So little has appeared of late in the columns of the metropolitan journals relative to the gold fields, that some of the incredulous inhabitants of Sydney may be almost inclined to doubt their existence. It must not, however, be supposed that because so little…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THERE has been no alteration during the week in the buying price, it remaining, as at last quotations, from £3 19s. 3d. to £4 [?]s. 6d., and, in some instances, for large parcels, £4 0s. 9d. There have been very few diggers' parcels offered, the amount by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MARCH OF INTELLECT AMONG THE BUTCHERS.âSome ten days since the butchers at the northern end of Bendigo were astonished at the appearance of a very smart butchers' lad, mounted on a strong cob, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In my last I mentined a rush having been made to a point above Mr. Lundie's public house—it has not turned out so well as was expected and very few are persevering enough to continus their searches; but those…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A new spot lins been opened at Golden Point, which is likely to turn out exceedingly well. Several shafts have been sunk, and all have as yet obtained gold in something more than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—On the 26th April you published a letter from me containing a line of route from Gipps' Land vi[?] the Snowy River, to Omeo and Mitta Mitta. That route commenced at Lake Wellington…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The success of these diggings continues unabated. The Messrs. Buchanan's party are still very successful, generally obtaining from twenty to thirty ounces a day. They have run a dam across the upper part of tho hole,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE demand this week has increased: it is only to be regretted that now it is so much required for remittances, that there are so few on this side following the pursuit of gold digging. Gold we have, and plenty of it, but our mining population has gone;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BENDIOO AND, CASTLEMAINE.—Great is the rivalry, existing in the minds of many of those who dwell at those two places. In games of every kind this feeling is displayed, and some fortninght since seyeral hot headed men of Bendigo met at Castlemaine, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →June 1. -- A new spot has been opened at Golden Point which is taming oat exceedingly well. Several shafts have been sank, and all have as yet obtained gold in something more than remunerative Quantities. Two or three pennyweights to the pan of washing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New South Wales £3 17 3 BEMDWOOD—In my last I mentioned a rush having been made to a point above Mr Luudie's public [?]se—it has not turned out so well as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT appears that Australia is destined to be a land of contrarieties and extremes in the social as well as the physical world. For naturalists and experimentalists have already…
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