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I was perfectly astonished, last wook, after glaneing over the columns of your Contemporary, on reading the "Tuena News," where the correspondent says, "I would advise no person to come to these diggings for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have been favoured with the perusal of a letter from T[?]mut, dated June ll, and addressed to Mr. S. Emanuel, of Castlereagh-street, giving the particulars of the discovery of an extensive quartz reef of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BY yesterday's mail important news reached town from the above diggings. The following letters have been handed to us for publication. The first, addressed to Mr. S. Emanuel, from his son, dated Tumut, June…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Alfred Levien, under date June 8, writes to the Maitland Mercury as follows:— The Escort left here last Tuesday, with, I belive, 2500 ounces of gold dust; although this is nearly a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE extracts from the Maitland Mercury, given below, will be read by many with great interest. The quantity of gold raised by two or three diggers, although very large, would…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →OF one foot; however, there is no longer any doubt, that, whatever may be the extent of our auriferous advantages, there is no limit to our resources in copper. Time alone is required to permit such an accumulation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One or two important discoveries have lately taken place on the gold fields of this colony which, if followed by the success which is reasonably anticipated, will impart a powerful…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—Having just returned from an inspection of your mines, I beg to draw your attention to the following report, which has been arrived at after mature deliberation; and, in doing so, I shall first…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A TUMULT AT TUMUT.—Extraordinary accounts have been received from this gold field. The half of Tumut is out! and should the yield still continne satisfactory, " the whole of Tumut…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Important discoveries have lately taken place on the goldfields of this colony. The first is the discovery of a rich quartz vein at the Hanging Rock and Peel River diggings. A correspondent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The late tempesiuous weather has made the roads so difficult to travel that the usual gold escorts from the Northern, Southern, and Western Gold Districts did not arrive in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE have Nelson papers of intermediate dates, which had not before come to hand. We extract the following particulars in reference to gold fields at Aorere. The Examiner of the 23rd May says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have received, under date 15th instant, the following communication from our correspondent at the Hanging Rock:— I am very happy (he says) to inform you that these…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following article, which we copy from a late number of the Economist, will be read with much interest, at the present time and in view of recent monetary movements in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON leaving the Hanging Rock, I started thence with the intention of crossing the country to Mudgee, and to this end I proceeded by Gunnoo Gunnoo, to the head station of the Peel River Mining Company, to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No matter how vauntingly a man may boast of his wealth, or a people of its country's prosperity, the good results of each condition are exclusively confined to neither the one nor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE next morning I quitted Barnaby's at daylight. The rain of the preceding days had now given place to a hard frost, such a one as I scarcely remember to have before witnessed in the colony, and so severe…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR—I perceive by the Empire at Tuesday last, that Mr. Holroyd is somewhat annoyed at one port of the reported speech of Mr. Byrnes, made at Parramatta, on the day of nomination. Mr. H. positively denies that he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JUNE 17th.—The prospects, this week, are of an uncommonly cheering nature. Nuggets are turning up in all directions, and the German portion of the diggers are doing uncommonly well…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following extract is taken from a letter, dated Tumut, June 26th, received by Mr. Mandelson from his son yesterday:— As for the goodness of the ridge there is no mistake in it;…
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