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THERE is a certain amount of speculation in every pursuit under the sun. No man, however strong, and however justifiable, his hopes, can be absolutely sure that any…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The report to which I alluded in my last communication, relative to the discovery of new diggings, has, according to general expectation, ended all in smoke. It appears that a digger was prospecting in what, in digging phraseology, is termed a blind…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →About a month since, Mr. Coleman, late acting Commandant, and Mr. Finlay, a resident in the Town of Smithfield, in riding over to Mr. Weasel's farm, adjoining the town lands, observed several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A CELL, according to the prison disciplinarian, is a solitary chamber for the confinement of a guilty member of society: a cell, according to the galvanist, is a small receptacle for certain elements from which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Now that we have been for two years and a half familiarised with the astonishing discovery of Australian gold, we are beginning gradually to attain some knowledge of the discoverers. The mineralogical…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →HANGING-ROCK, APRIL 8.—At the lower end of Oakenville we observe several new parties have commenced operations, and they are sinking square holes and sha[?] Boatswain's party, who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The quantity of gold brought in by the vernment Escorts appears on the [?] as its old average [?]rd, the amount dep[?] each week by the Western Escort [?]ying…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The quantity of gold forwarded to Sydney from the Turon last week (close upon 700 ounces) corroborates the remarks that I made in a previous communication, that things on the Turen had taken a decidedly upward tendency. For a population of 800 to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The last week has heen characterised by a recurrence of rainy weather, which has flooded the Bendigo Creek to a degree unknown since the diggers first located themselves on its banks. On Wednesday last we had a sharp, short storm in the evening, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—In commenting upon a recent vote of the Legislature of New South Wnles, by which Mr Hargreaves was recompensed for having first opened out the Gold Fields of that Colony,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HAVING devoted a vast deal of time in obtaining the best reliable information respecting the Gold Fields of this colony, it is my intention, after this week, to confine my details to merely giving the weekly price of gold dust. However sanguine I may…
Continued on Trove, page 76 →In my last communication I accidentially observed that there was a large extent of u[?]ied ground at Green Wattle Flat, and that the flood with which we have been recently visited…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the opening of the market this week, on Tuesday (Monday being a holiday), a considerable degree of excitement was manifest, owing to the probability of the exchange being raised to per cent. premium, after the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It would appear from the Celtic names which prevail in the northern portion of Damfriesshire and the south-west part of La[?]kshire, that the occurrence of gold was known in this district at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The exhibition of this newly invented machine has for'some time excited much interest at home amongst men of science, and generally amongst men interested in mining pursuits. "By the inventor of the contrivance the following exposition of its nature…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the early part of the week advices were received from Sydney of an alteration in the rates of exchange with England, and a corresponding advance of one per cent. was expected here. This caused considerable demand for gold dust, which during the week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In my last communication I accidentally observed that there was a large extent of untried ground at Green Wattle Flat, and that the flood with which we have been recently visited would be the means of its resources being developed. Since I penned those…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On the subject of Inter-Oceanic Communication by the American Isthmus, we have received from a correspondent a series of papers, containing observations on the evidence relating to the two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I fear that I am not the only one who imagines that the Czar has some idea of laying his hands on one or two Australian galleons. He has evidently been acting on a preconcerted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I fear that I am not the only one who imagines that the Czar has some idea of laying his hands on one or two Australian galleons. He has evidently been acting on a preconcerted…
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