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We are now practically under the Gold Tax, for although Sunday is the day on which it nominally commences, yet the day previous is but an imperfect one for business. The neavy rains have no doubt given an additional damp to the miners, and but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our correspondent at these diggings, under date the 31st ultimo, says:—I am sorry to say that our population is fast diminishing; every day takes some dozen or moro from our number. They are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FOR the following scraps of information from the New England diggings, we are indebted to the Armidale Express of the 7th instant:— THE ROCKY RIVER.—Both the diggings and business…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Whereas it is expedient to levy a duty upon gold in New South Wales: Be it thorofore onactod by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Escort arrived at the Mint yesterday morning with the following consignments of gold from ROCKY RIVER. ozs. dwts. grs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It would have been gratifying if we could have recorded this week an inercase in the supply of the prectious motal. This we are unable to do. Nevertheleas, we must not despond; it may be that those who cleared out their stock of gold, in anticipation of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following consignments of gold were received at the Mint yesterday by Escort, from the WESTERN DISTRICT. STONEY CREEK…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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 Stoney Creek, 172 ozs 9 dwts; Sofala, 66 ozs 3 dwts;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I have given you very little news of late from this quarter, for the plain reason that there has been little to report. The old favourite spots are losing their wonted celebrity, and I am sorry to say that population is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MUDGEE, February 18.—I have not time to write a formal notice on the diggings; they have received a fresh impetus in our neighbourhood lately at a place called Miranda, on the lower part of the Meroo, near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A rumour having reached Mudgee that a new and extensive gold field had been discovered in the neigh-bourhood, I determined not be led away by vague and uncertain reports, but to proceed to the spot in order to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When ethe great importance which is now attached to an arrival of gold is considered, and when it is observed that the announcement of two ships entereing our ports on the same day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE have been politely favoured by Messrs. E. Rottmann and Co., of Sydney, with the following extract of a letter from George G. Dickinson, dated Meroo, 21st February:—"The place from whence came the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following consiguments of gold were received at the Mint yesterday by Escort, from the WESTERN DISTRICT. STONEY CREEK…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There is not much to [?] of this week in the gold market the present supply is cortainly small; if the reports from the neighbourhood of the Meroo be true, there are some gleams of of golden sunshine in that direction. It is one encouraging…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There is not much to boast of this week in the gold market, the present supply is certainly small; if the reports from the neighborhood of the Meroo are true, there are some gleams of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since the first developments which were made by experimental analysis showing that the coal of the Breckinridge Company contains a large amount of oil suitable for illuminating and lubricating purposes, we…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—With reference to a paragraph, copied from the Bathurst Free Press of Wednesday, in which it is stated that the Directors of the Carangara Copper Mining Company have determined to add one hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather, lie the times, is very dull at present. For the last week we have had occasional sho[?]ors of rain daily, with dark and cloudy skies, and now there is no great appearance of it clearing up. Water is plentiful…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IMPORTS, &c.—Fine flur, 16 10s. to £17 for colonial; £14 to £14, 10s. for Chillian; for Adelaide, £18; Haxall, 50s. per barrel; bran, 2s. 6d.; wheat, 6s. 6d. to 7s. per bushel; oats—colonial, 6s. 9d. to 7s. 9d.; Scotch, 6s. 6d.; maizo, 5s. to 6s.: cracked ditto, 6s. to…
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