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378 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 19
ROCKY RIVER, 21st May.—If we had not been blessed with iron constitutions here, the present changeable weather would be too apt to swell our doctor's bills. The past fortnight has been uncommonly cold, bleak,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Alfred Levien, dating from the Rocky River, May 21, writes to the Maitland Mercury as follows:—"My last letter to you dopicted a state of great stagnation in the mining interests of the Rocky River, and I fear this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE General Superintendent of the Australian Agricultural Company, Mr. Arthur Hodgson, with the prospect of the largely increasing demand for fossil fuel, has directed the opening of a new coal pit on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OUR citizens have at length bestirred themselves into raising a reward fund for the discovery of a gold-field within a radius of fifteen miles from Albury. The conditions on which the money is to be paid over will…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →I have just returned from a tour through recently discovered portions of the above gold-fields, namely— "Jingellack." Taking a course south-west of the Tumut by Riley's Inn, Adelong, and thence on the table land…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There is little news from this quarter; the most noticeable is the death of Mr. Andrew Badgery, who expired at 8 o'clock this morning. That gentleman's name is so intimately connected with Braidwood, that it is no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WRITING, from the Hanging Rock, on the 18th ultimo, and again on the 23rd, pur correspondent says:— After an absence of eleven months, I have returned to these diggings once more, and find every thing almost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE most commercially important and the most numerous section of the community reside upon the goldfields. In energy, in enterprise, and in the intense vitality of its existence, that population forms the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"THE most commercially important and the most numerous section of the community reside upon the goldfields. In energy, in enterprise, and in the intense vitality of its existence, that population forms the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IN resu[?]ing the consideration of this subject, we will invi[?] attention to one important feature, which, whether as regards iron mining operations in the southern, western, or northern districts of the colony,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONE of the most painful incidents connected with this melancholy accident occurred at the offices of the Lundhill Company on Wednesday evening, March l8. It having been made known that the engineers would…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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, 675 ozs. 1 dwt. 6 grs.; Stoney Creek, 252 ozs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While staying at Burrandong for a few hours to bait, Mr. Leake, an innkeeper there, produced a fine sample of bright, coarse, shotty gold, which was afterwards sold to Mr. George Bonnor, of Bathurst, at 74s. per ounce,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →has recently been said and writton [?]on[?]erning me graua[?] decline in the yield of this gold-field, that we are gratifled at being able to show,from the best source that all such statements are totally unfounded. Appended to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury of yesterday publishes the following We give the utmost prominence to the important information received on Sunday by post, from tho Hanging…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE give the utmost prominence to the important information received on Sunday by post, from the Hanging Rock and Peel Diggings. If the successful hit now made, in a quartz vein on the latter diggings,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE escort has at length arrived, after a very wearisome journey. They have been the almost incredible period of a month on the road, up and down. At Singleton alone they were detained for ten days, in consequence…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Western and Southern Escorts arrived yesterday from the respective gold-fields, and delivered at the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint the following quantities of gold-dust:— WESTERN.—From Bathurst, 41 ozs 18 dwts; Stoney Creek,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The escort has at length arrived, after a very wearlsome journey. They have been the almost incredible period of a month on the road, up and down. At Singleton alone they were detained for ten days, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →REEDY FLAT.—A young man named Armstrong, from the north of Ireland, was killed on Monday the 1st of June, by the falling in of the walls of a race. On Tuesday, Mr. Lynch attended, and held a magisterial…
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