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378 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 19
THE good folks of Mudgee are greatly irate at having no branch escort from their township to Sydney. They have, no doubt, some cause for being Annoyed at their being deprived of this advantage, seeing that a great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have received from an occassional correspondent some items from the Braidwood diggings![?] Some new ground has been opened at the head of Moreingls flat where several parties are doing a good stroke. There…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LEAVING Murrendi rather later than usual, on a fine clear frosty morning, I started with the expectation of doing the eighteen miles that were said to separate the two places, by dinner time. But the old proverb of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the 12th instant we published a copy of the bill introduced by tho present Ministry for the better management of the gold-fields. That bill proposes to supersede the present Local Courts, and to establish in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM Burrandong to Muckrawa the road was not easily to be missed, since I had merely to follow up a creek to its source, in the mountains, then to cross a gap at the head of the gully down into a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TUMUT.—We have received very cheering accounts from these gold fields. Erery one seems to be getting gold, and no doubt exists of the paving nature of the newly discovered quartz…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Western Escort arrived yesterday from the respective goldfields, and delivered at the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint the following quantities of gold-dust:— From Bathurst, 23 ozs 7 dwts; Orange, 113ozs 18 dwts 18 grs,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CONC[?]RNING the "wants" of the Rocky River diggings, and some other matters, Mr. Alfred Levien has addressed the following observations, under date 19th ultimo, to the Maitland Mercury, in which journal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Ironbark Diggings extend, as I have said, down to the Wellington Road, where digging has been going on for a considerable time past. The main road from Bathurst to Wellington runs for some distance along…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I promised in my last letter to make you acquainted with "a chapter of wants" in this locality; and at once to plunge into the subject I proclaim want the first, comprised in formation of good roads. I am well aware…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In a recent number we published a letter from our Yass correspondent, announcing some rich discoveries of the "inferior metals," in the immediate neighbourhood. We are now enabled to give some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FURTHER [?] advices were received in town yesterday from the Adelong. Two beautiful specimens of quartz, received by Mr. Mandelson and Mr. Emanuel, arrived by post, and will be on view to-day at Mr. Davies',…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE have been favoured with several communications respecting the newly-discovered quartz reef at Adelong Creek, near Tumut, and we have much pleasure in laying them before our readers. It will be seen that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LEAVING Burrendong by what almost appeared a continuation of the road by which I had como from Murrendi, I passed along the valley of the Macquarie for about a mile and a half, then crossing a stony ridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY we had the pleasure of examining, per favour of Messrs. Dickson and Co., three very beautiful nugge[?]s of gold from the same Peel River quartz vein which recently yielded the very large quantity to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday we had the pleasure of examining, per favour of Messrs. Dickson and Company, three very beautiful nuggets of gold from the same Peel River quartz vein which recently yielded the very large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →My last letter was regularly posted early this day week, but seems to have been detained somewhere, as it did not appear in Saturday's Express. Since then there is not much to report from these diggings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS spot was fixed upon by the then Chief Commissioner of the gold-fields, Mr. Hardy, for the Government camp, as it was originally looked upon as the contre of the gold country in that particular locality…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Gold Fields which heretofore have been the rendezvous for men of every class and profession, where the honest man and the rogne, the ploughman and the Oxford scholar, the robust farmer and the delicate student,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent of the Goulburn Herald of Saturday, writes:— Again we have been visited with a flood, which as usual, has done considerable damage and impeded…
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