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378 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 19
THE distance from Louisa to Tambaroora is about eighteen miles. The road leaves the former place at the eastern extremity of the creck, passing along a the gully that has been prospected in many places,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →—It is reported that an extensive system of robbery bas been practised for a considerable time past by a number of the men employed at the Wentworth Gold Field Company's works…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,âShould you think the annexed worth publishing in your paper, you can mention my name as a guarantee of the facts. I have been waiting for the past few days to have it confirmed, or should have written you…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE accounts received from our gold-fields still continue promising. Evidence is perpetually afforded that the mineral wealth of the colony in great, and is merely kept in reserve till the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The quantity of gold-dust received by the escorts from our several gold-fields during the quarter ended the 30th of June, was 32,280 ounces; for the same peried of 1856, 23,263 ounces; increase on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE intelligence received from the various gold fields of New South Wales continuos on the whole satisfactory. The newly discovered quartz reef at Adelong Creek, near Tumut, in the Southern Districts, to which we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The newly-discovered quartz reef at Adelong Creek, near Tumut, in the Southern, Districts is attracting a good deal of attention. Favourable accounts of the results of the operations carried on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Western Escort arrived yesterday from the respective Gold-Fields, and delivered, at the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint, the following quantities of gold-dust:— From Bathurst: 533 ozs 11 dwts 7 grs; Orange, 37 [?]zs 3 dwts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We gave in our Summary per Simla, May 23rd, an account of some of our gold fields abridged from the letters of our Special Commissioner. In that abridgement particulars relative to the Northern Diggings…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Since my last letter the weather has imporved considerable, and it is to be hoped that our ways, if not our manners, will shortly mend. There are sundry rumours adrift of Chinamen having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TUOLUMNE COUNTRY.—Reports from the principal mining districts of Tuolumne are highly favourable, for, notwithstanding the remurkable dry weather and the great amount of labour required in constructing ditches,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—In the Herald's " summary per Columbian" of yesterday appears a leading article on " Colonial Gold Companies." Mr. Edward J. Spence, a gentleman of practical and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. W. M'ILVEEN, writing to the Maitland Mercury under date Hanging Rock, July ll, supplies the following information:— Our diggings have made a great move, and there is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON first leaving Tambaroora, the road, for a distance of some eight miles, crosses innumerable dry stony ridges, of no very great height, but disagreeable to travel, from the rocky nature of the ground, the schist…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following Orders in Council and Proclamation were published on Tuesday last in a Victoria Government Gazette Extraordinary:— At the Court at Windsor, the 18th day of October, 1854…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is copied from a special issue of the Victoria Government Gazette, July 14:— "PROCLAMATION. "Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A caution to gold buyers appeared in the last issue of our contemporary; but the notice is calculated to produce an exaggerated idea as to the real nature of the fraud committed. It seems that a large…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A[?]ALUEN, JULY 13TH.—The reports from the Adelong diggings have caused an excitement and unessiness amongst many of our miners, not to be allayed without a visit; consequently a number have departed to try…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →For some considerable time past Mr. Finnerty, our indefatigable Chief Constable, has been exercising a very watchful eye over the men employed at the Wentworth Gold Mines, and on Wednesday last he thought the time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SOFALA is the centre of the gold district of the Turon. At a rough estimate, for the population is so scattered that without enumeration it would be impossible to give anything like a close approximation to its…
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