Mining Regulations
The following regulations have just been issued at the various gold-fields in the Western District, and appear in the Bathurst Free Press. From and after the first day of September next, the…
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A Review of the Gold-fields of Australia: Their Physical Features and Laws of Deposition, &c. No. IV
THESE papers would not have been written at all had their design been anticipated by a more accomplished pen, equally familiar with the subjects upon which they treat; but, upon looking…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Gold Fields. Stoney Creek. [From Our Own Correspondent.]
Notwithstanding the unfavourable weather lately experienced here a great quantity of gold is being obtained by the miners. More of the metal has been offered for sale during the past week than at any former period…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold at Gundaroo. (From the Goulburn Herald, September 13.)
The following letter has been forwarded to us by Mr. A. Levy, of Queanbeyan, and as we have no doubt that the information it contains is authentic, we have much pleasure in publishing it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Gold-fields. Louisa Oreek. [From Our Correspondent.]
SEPTEMBER 13TH.—Since my last, we have had some very had weather, snow and severo frosts, which have driven several of the diggers away; the last few days, however, the weather has been more settled, and many…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining Intelligence. Stoney Creek. (From a Correspondent.)
Notwithstanding the unfavorable weather lately experienced here, a great quantity of gold is being obtained by the miners. More of the metal has been offered for sale during the past…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Review of the Gold-fields of Australia, Their Physical Features, And'laws of Deposition, &c, Se. No. V.
As there are few persons in the colonies to whom the mere CHARACTER of gold is unfamiliar, more than a very few words on the subject would be superfluous, but. when that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold News. the Rooky River. (From Saturday's Maitland Mercury.)
MESSRS. Dickson and Co. have obligingly furnished us with the following interesting letter, received by them from a gentleman who was for a long time in their employ, and has now proceeded to the Rocky River…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A New Claimant for the Gold Reward. (From the South Australian Register, September 13.)
A black lubra, known on Kangaroo Island by the decent Christian name of "Betsey," has sent in a preliminary claim to the Government reward promised to the discoverer of a goldfield! This may be startling or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The New England Gold Fields. (From the Armidale Express, September 13,) the Rocky River
The weather during the last week was very disagree, able, with rain, hail, and snow. The mornings were bitterly cold—so much so that it was almost impossible to work at the cradles and long toms; but now we have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Northern Gold-fields. (From Our Correspondent.)
STROUD, 17th SEPTEMBER.—Fancy a broad gully, with gently sloping banks, in the centre of which stands a narrow pool of water of the colour of paste, over which a man can jump. On the banks immense masses of…
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THE following letter was received yesterday from an intelligent man who left for the Rocky River about three weeks since. He had never been to any diggings before, and is only returning in consequence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Braidwood. the Tax on Gold
A public meeting of Diggers was numerously attended at the Little River, on Wednesday evening, the 17th instant, when, on the motion of Mr. T. A. Moore, seconded by Mr. Stephenson, Mr. J. B. Wilson took the chair,…
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The Maitland Mercury of the 23rd contains the following:—" The first northern escort arrived in Maitland on Sunday, bringing down 3500 ounces of gold from the Rocky River, and leaving, as we are informed by one of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Gold Field Thirty-five Miles From Goulburn!
The Goulburn Herald of the 20th says—"We have within the few last days received information from a most reliable source, that there exists, to all appearance, an extensive and rich gold-field within thirty-five miles…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Gold-fields. (From the Goulburn Herald of Saturday.)
A GOLD-FIELD THIRTY-FIVE MILES FROM GOULBURN. —We have within the last few days received information from a most reliable source, that there exists, to all appearance, an extensive and rich gold-field within…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold at Parramatta!!! To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—I hasten to inform you gold has been found at Parramatta within these last few hours, in nuggets of fine quality, and at a depth of 5 or 6 feet from the surface, in digging for water on the premises of Mrs…
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FROM Stoney Creek the Correspondent of the Bathursi Free Prss writes as follows:—I have now been nearly two months here, and although it would be folly to say the population has not decreased, I very much doubt whether we have suffered by the loss…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Gold-fields. Rocky River
The Mailland Mercury of the 23rd contans the following:-"The first northern escort arrived in Maitland on Sunday, bringing down 3500 ounces of gold from the Rocky River, and leaving, as we…
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This week has given the first clear official proof of the value of the new diggings at the Rocky River; the escort having returned from its first trip to Armidale, bringing down 3500 ounces of the precious metal. Thus Sydney has been enriched more…
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