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The following return shows the number of licenses collected in the Western District, during 1852 and 1853, as compared with the number collected during the first eight months of 1854. The first Gold Act came into operation in February, 1853…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GOLD remains unaltered in price. A slight reduction has taken place at the gold-fields, but not to such an extent as to alter the town price. At the different diggings the want of rain is severely felt, to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MINING MACHINERY. — I have repeatedly referred, through the columns of this Journal, to the almost total want of what may justly be denominated machinery for the use of the mines, in order to enable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A good run of gold has been hit upon by Stewart and Bell's party, at the head of the gully in Happy Valley. Their mode of working the ground insured them success, if there was a ran…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THESE can be little doubt that the material prosperity of Victoria is still altogether dependent upon her gold-fields. We do not question, indeed, that even were it suddenly discovered that Timon had dug up…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We extract the following from the Melbourne ARGUS, of 31st August: -- Yesterday half-a-dozen men who had been engaged, as prospector swore located on the Sandy Creek, some three or four miles…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A good run of gold has been, hit upon by Stewart aud Bell's party, at the head of the gully in Happy Valley. Their mode of working the ground insured them success, if there was a rund…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£ s. d. Turon....3 18 0 Melbourne...4 0 0 BRAIDWOOD.—The diggings are, I am glad to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VERY little alteration has taken place in the Gold Market this week. There has been a slight demand for shipment to the East, but nothing to affect the price. The uncertainty of the Exchange must, to a certain degree, cause a decline, and no doubt ere long…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The absence of animation to which we have referred latterly still exists, and although the receipts this week are only to a very moderato extent, we must repeat our last quotations…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The absence of animation to which we have referred latterly still exists, and although the receipts this week are only to a very moderate extent, we must repeat our last quotations…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Very little variaton has taken place in the Gold Market this week; there has been a slight demand for shipment to the East, but nothing to affect the price. The uncertainty of the exchange must to a certin degree…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →VERY little alteration has taken place in the Gold Market this week. There has been a slight demand for shipment to the East, but nothing to affect the price. The uncertainty of the Exchange must, to a certain degree, cause a decline, and no doubt ere long…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We are happ in being able to state that the lower end of Oakenville Creek, where so much labour had been unprofitable bestowed, is now about to be thoroughly worked. Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No reaction has taken place in the gold market this week. The prices remain as before quoted. The demand, notwithstanding the sailing of the Madras, has been very trifling, and has had no effect upon the price. From a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →We are happy in being, able to state that the lower-end of Oakanville Creek, where so much labour, has been unprofitably bestowed, is now about to be thoroughly worked. Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rocky River, 13th September, 1854. The setting in of fine weather, which has just commenced, with every prospect of its being permanent, will, I am [?], realise the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THERE are two classes of political economists, one maintaining that "times are at the best when prices are at the highest," the other asserting that " the community…
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