Gold Medals Awarded by the International Jury
Class 1.—Medaille d'Honneur—Geological Survey of Great Britain. Class 2.—Medailles d'Honneur—Canada, Macarthur (new South Wales), British Guiana…
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Turon Gold Ridge Quartz Crushing Company
The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders in the above Company was held yesterday afternoon at the Royal Hotel. The principal business was to determine whether the resolution adopted at the last…
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T[?]AY, pursuant to advertisement, the half-yearly [?] meeting of the propristors of the above[?] Company was held at the Royal Hotel, for the [?] specified in the deed of settlement; and also…
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A MEETING of shareholders was held at the London Tavern, November 16, to receive the report of the committee of investigation which was appointed by the meeting of October 26. Forty or fifty gentlemen…
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The western escort brought down this morning, 1587 [?] dwts. 17 grs. The Meroo diggings appear to be yielding a much larger quantity than usual, 734 [?]. 12 dwts. [?] grs. from there is much greater than the general average…
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ON Saturday last a gentleman arrived in town from the Ophir diggings, where he had been at work for about three weeks, bringing with him, as the result of his labours, 406 ozs. 12 dwts. of the precious metal. It…
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WE take the following particulars of a reent discovery of rich diggings at Ophir from the Bathurst Free Press of Saturday last. The true saying that our diggings are not yet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Stimulus to Our Gold-fields. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—But for the accidental instrumentality of private individuals—such, for instance, as Mr. Hargraves at first, and occasionally the enterprise of the like of Mr. White's small party, whose success at Ophir is referred…
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A full account of the discovery of " Rich Diggings" at Ophir will be found in another portion of our columns. We have since had the opportunity of inspecting the results of this luckily found out locality, Mr. White and…
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DISCOVERY OF RICH DIGGINGS.—The trite saying that our diggings are not yet exhausted, occasionally receives ample confirmation, but of late, in no instance so remarkably so, as in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victoria. Report of the Select Commitee on Gold Mining on Private Property
The select committee appointed by the Legislative Council on the 30th November, 1855, to "enquire in existing laws relative to Mining on Private Property, and to investigate the present position of the question…
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YESTERDAY, pursuant to advertisement, the general half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this Company was held at their office in Pitt-street, for the purpose of receiving the Directors' Report; of electing…
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SIR—Having observed in this morning's Empire, that news had arrived by the Louis and Miriam, that rich gold mines had been disco[?]ered in Kannla, in the northern part of the island of New Caledonia, I beg to…
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HIG[?]LY IMPORTANT.—We have been shown a magnificent and costly nugget of gold, recently procured in the vicinity of the Tuena. It weighs about a pound and a quarter, and is of a bright…
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THE Western Escort arrived thin morning with 1644 ozs. 6 dwts. 22 grs. gold dust. This is more than the usual average. The increase no doubt arises from the New Diggings at the Ophir, which has been sold at the Tambaroora, Sofala, and Bathurst…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Gold Mines in New Caledonia. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—I hope you will be kind enough to find room in your valuable paper for a few questions, the answers to which I believe are very important for the community at large. I see in your paper two advertisement…
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THE following circular letter has been posted to all the shareholders in this Company. A copy of it has come to hand from one of our London Correspondents, by the Marco Polo mail…
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