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279 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 14
SIR,—Having observed in your paper of this date, an account of the recent discovery at California, of a very large loss of gold, through the furnace flues, during the process of melting and refining previous to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following letters appear in the Evening Bulletin (San Fracisco), May 18. TRAVEL UP FRAZER RIVER—THE MINES, &c. Fort Longley, (B. A)., May 5,1858…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The weather during the last week has been Chang[?] and bitterly cold.' Some rain has fallen, but not[?] importance to benefit those whose constant cry is, [?] water. The intense cold of the nights must have [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Since my last, the monotony of this port has not been relieved by any arrival from the American side. Yesterday the Hudson's Bay Company's steam-propeller Otter arrived from Fort Langley, one of their trading posts on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A correspondent of the Bathurst Free Press, of [?] Wednesday, thus speaks of the present state of this gold mine:- Having recently returned from a trip to the westward…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Westerd, Southern, and Northern Esoorts have arrive during the week, from the several gold-fields, and delivered it the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint the following quantities of gold-dust…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following consignments of gold were received yesterday, at the Royal Mint, per the Northern, Southern, and Western Escorte:- NORTHERN ESCORT…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Goulburn Herald of Wednesday contains the following:—Considerable excitement prevailed in the township last Wednesday evening, in consequence of reports having been brought in that large quantities of gold had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We furnish our readers to-day, to the exclusion of much other matter, with a variety of communication a bearing upon the all-absorbing topic of the time—the Frazer river gold mines. Besides our regular…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following extract from the San Francisco Daily Globe of the 18th May, gives the latest intelligence respecting the above:— By the arrival last evening of the steamer Panama from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BY the arrival of the Jenny Lind, from Port Curtis, last night, we learn that the report of a gold-field having been discovered in this locality is authentic. Mr. Wilmott, who came passenger by this vessel,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →If the reports published in the Californian newspapers about the quartz lead of Street and Soulsby, in Tuolumne county, be correct, their claim and the vein on which it is located, must…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SOON after the arrival of the Panama from Paget Sound, we were informed that several persons who had been at the Frazer Mines, were among the passengers, and we started out to find some of them, if…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR, —When "Jupiter" condescends to seek for information from lowly mortals, it would be wrong to refuse what one has to offer, and therefore, called on by name, I take the liberty of making a few remarks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I arrived hero this, morning, and was heartily glad to get rid of the crowd that came up on the Columbia. The commodore arrived at Victoria, Vancouver's Island, the day before…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GLADSTONE, PORT CURTIS, 13th July, 1858.—About seven or eight months ago, a gentleman who had been travelling in this district, stated that he had found gold in the neighbourhood of the Fitzroy River. This…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There have not been wanting in these districts individuals who have given utterance to the most gloomy forebodings relative to the decline in the population at our gold fields, and the consequent decrease of their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I have much pleasure in recording the discovery of a rich paying gold field in this district. For some time reports have been occasionally brought to the town of gold having been found in various parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To a stranger there is something peculiarly repulsive in the entrance to a coal mine. A narrow door, or rather hole in the side of a hill—drippingly damp and overhung with nasty-looking weeds—affords but slight promise of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I am happy to say there appears little doubt re-maining as to the fact of a paying gold-field having been discovered here. Some weeks since, hints were thrown out, that a party sent in search of it had been…
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