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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, 254 ozs l8 dwts 9 grs; Sofala, 759 ozs lO dwts;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Messrs Flavelle, Brothers, have exhibiting at their establishment in George street, some highly interesting specimens of silver brought to this colony hy Mr Bradish, the companion of Mr Ledger, the importer of the Llamas,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Tuesday evening a public meeting was held at the Commercial Hotel, West Mai[?]land, pursuant to advertisement, "to hear the statement of those parties who had visited the locality, and give the necessary information to any who might wish to go." Mr. R…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A FINE clear morning, with a refreshing breeze, tempted me once more to leave the bustling township and accompany old Turon in his devious windings through the mountains as he wandered to the far…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A ROAD leads from Patterson's Point, over the neck of the peninsular, to the Little Wallabys and New Zealand Point; here multitudinous shafts and holes in every direction, stretching from the margin of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON the gold-fields [?] is your lot to full in with many varieties of the genus nomo—one dubs himself civil engineer, he is always getting up a company, and has a plan for making every body's fortune in less than no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE of the items of statistical information supplied from this district for the annual Blue Book, is relative lo tho production of our coal mines. From this we learn that, during the year 1858, it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHERE did we separate—it was at the big Wallaby, that mighty rock on which old Time has chronicled his centuries. Let us now leave that "memento mori" of buried ages, and follow the Turon a little further…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AND now for the table lands on the north, bank of the Turon. Crossing the river below Circus Point you are on the Escort Track, at the foot of the wearisome ascent of Monkey-Hill, mountain piled on mountain;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE accounts of the produce of the gold-fields, as made up to the end of the past year, fully justify the expectations that were entertained at the beginning of the year as to the steady…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ABOUT the middle of October last, several parties, impressed with the auriferous character of the country in the vicinity of this river, started off on prospecting tours to test the various localities. Some of these confined themselves to the gullies and ridges…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →WE are unhappy in the nomenclature of our creeks; in this respect the aborigines beat us hollow. There are the eternal Oakeys scattered throughout the length and breadth of the colony,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MOST of the reefs on the Louisa basin appear to be V reefs or wedge-shaped, and in reefs of this character the gold has usually been found in the cap or near the surface. As the entire basin has been formed by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →So Mr. Taylor, the member for the Macleay and all New England, condescends for once to notice the interests of New England Proper, by asking the Secretary of Public Works whether it is the intention…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN reply to communications requesting a specified number of copies of this Journal to be posted weekly to our correspondents, we beg very respectfully to intimate that a REM[?]TTANCE must accompany their favors; the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Buchanan, commissioner at the Rocky, for the annexed particulars in reference to the Fairfield diggings, he having just returned from a visit to that field. It appears…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →IN making a tour of the western gold-fields the vast disproportion between the numbers of the European and Chinese mining population cannot fail to impress the mind of the most casual observer, and load him to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IN reply to coimmunications requusting a specified number of copies of this Journal to be posted weekly to our correspondeats, we beg very respectfully to intimate. that A REMITTANCE must accompany their favorn; the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RICHARDSON'S POINT, 3RD FEBRUARY.—I hasten to forward an addenda to my communication of yesterday, to say that most favourable accounts have been received from the prospecting party now out between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have forsaken the Louisa, and now for the descent to the banks of the Meroo. Having already looked down upon it from the heights of the plateau, and marked its wanderings through that dark…
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