Our Gold-fields
FITZGERALD'S SWAMP DIGOINGS.—The diggings, recently opened at Fitzgerald's Valley, are attracting-some attention in Bathurst, from the fact that Mr. William Smith, of that place, brought into town 20…
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The Gold Search in South Australia
The following letter, addressed to the Chairman of the Gold Commission of South Australia, has been received from Mr. Babbage — Macfarlane's Station, N. of Mount Serle,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE PROrOSKP Gold Duties. To the Editor of the Empires
SIR — I am well aware that the proposed way of raising the wind, by new exactions on the gold diggers, has taken too deep root " in the House" to prevent its being defeated. Anger against the Tories for proposing,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Gold-fields. (From the Goulburn Chronicle.)
USEFUL DISCOVERIES.—Gold has again, been found within the last few days in the range opposite Mrs. Wood's Inn, Towrang, and a very pretty little specimen can be seen on application to Mr. Joseph Collins,…
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Daring the last week we have received intelligence of the discovery of new diggings fifty-eight miles from Albury, on the station of Mitta Mitta Jack, formerly belonging to Mr. William…
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Daring the last week we have received intelligence of the discovery of new diggings fifty-eight miles from Albury, on the station of Mitta Mitta Jack, formerly belonging to Mr. William…
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The proposed duty on gold not having ye taken its final shape, will, it is hoped, be modified into a more equitable form; especially a regards the exportation of jewellery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Discovery Ok a Good Road for Bullock Teams From the Manning River to New Knoland, and Disovery of an Extensive Gold Field Near the Manning River
The favourable geographical situation of the Manning River District, offering a short connection between the settlements in New England and the city of Sydney, short by land and by water, has occupied for a long time…
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THE Armidale Express of 15th instant says;—A gentleman who has had many opportunities, during several years past, for acquiring sound information relative to the auriferous localities in New England, has favoured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New England Gold Fields. (From the Armidale Express, November 15.)
A gentleman who has had many opportunities, during several years past, for acquiring sound information relative to the auriferous localities in New England, has favoured us with the following particulars, which, we…
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WE have been favored with the extract of the following letter from the Hunging Rock, dated November 6. "Dear Sir,—My stay, at the Rocky River did not exceed eight days, but long enough to hear and see…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. (From Yesterday's Maitland Mercury.) the Rocky River
We have been favored with the following extract from a letter received by Messrs. Levien and Hastings, from the Rocky River, dated May 20, 1856: The now rush to Sawpit Gully is turning out excellently, and I…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Review of the Gold-fields of Australia, Their Physical Features, and Laws of Deposition, &c., &c. No. VI
HOWEVER capricious may appear those locations which nature has indicated, and operative causes decided, as the beds in and upon which the auriferous mineral reposes, and however such,…
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THE Western and Southern Escorts Arrived yesterday from the respective Gold Fields, and delivered at the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint the following quanuties of gold dust:— Western: From Bathurst, 16 oz dwts; Stoney Creek, 640 ozs…
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MR. CHARLES WHALAN writes the following letter to the Bathurst Free Press respecting the above diggings:—Sir,—You will excuse my not writing this last fortnight, as I have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New England Gold Fields. the Rocky River. (From the Special Correspondent of the Armidale Express.)
Having had nothing to communicate last week, I did not write. At present the good name of these diggings is in the ascendant. The new rush at Sawyer's Gully is in several cases turning out remarkably well. I…
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THE special correspondent of the Armidale Express under date 18th November, supplies the following information concerning the Rocky River diggings:— Having nothing new to communicate last week, I did…
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OUR correspondent, writing from Mudgee on the 26th ultimo, states that the news of the diggings in that district are rather dull for the present, whether from the scarcity of gold or the abundant call there is for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Explosions. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—Not long age an account of a distressing colliery accident in Wales, caused by an " explosion of fire damp," and resulting in the death of upwards of a hundred persons, appeared in the Empire. It would seem…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Gold Search in South Australia
The following letter was received from Mr. Babbage on Saturday, the 15th November, by the Chairman of the Gold Search Commission, at Adelaide. " Macfarlane's Station, Mount Serle, Nov. 1,1856…
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