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185 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 10
THE Meroo, although similar to the Turon in its geological features, differs in the character of its scenery, ranges recede now on the north bank, and then on the south, forming extensive half-moon flats…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE were last at Poverty Point, in the Mer[?] district. Leaving the diggers, just let us now wend our way up stream. Beyond this the rocks are too precipitous to contain payable gold, and the river pursues a troubled,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONG FLAT.—Puddling-machines are being increased in numbers and are now the favourite methods of working the claims here. Notice has been given of the erection of a now one nenr to the Globe. O'Heir…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON the 24th ultimo a German digger obtained a fine specimen from a claim within a few yards of the spot where Turner found his nugget, containing 197 ounces. The gold was, as in the previous instance,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following Rules of the Local Court have been printed by order of the Legislative Assembly:— 1. As a reward for the discovery of gold in any new locality within the boundaries of the cold-field, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FROM the third report of the Diggers' Employment Committee, it appears that they have brought their labours almost to a close. From this document we learn that 1507 diggers and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →I spent the greater portion of the summer of the year of grace 1855, in the clean and bright little village of Richmond. Towards the end of the month of December the weather became extremely…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE immense extent of the gold-fields of New South Wales, and the consequent diffusion of the population, favours the transition from mining to agricultural pursuits, which will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FEW places present a more unsightly aspect to a stranger than a largo gold-field in its decadence. The ground is broken, and cut up in every imaginable direction [?] heaps of stones and gravel interspersed with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EXTREME beauty of situation, and fertility of soil, scern insufficient to tempt the mining population on the Upper Meroo to engage in any species of agriculture. They possess few gardens and vegetables, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A'MR. RAYNOR has settled, himself and family on a few acres Of purchased land at Triangle Tlat; he has a small portion under cultivation, which produces wheat and potatoes of excellent quality. The land is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BODALLA, 19TH MARCH.—We have been favoured with a letter from this district, from which the following is a quotation:— "Everything is progressing well here. Payne's party are raising some of the true stuff, and the quartz is proving indisputably…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AGAIN we leave Richardson's Point, and, taking once more to the mountains, the valleys, and the streams, pursue our way along the plain that stretches to the southward. On the right, continuous range skirts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HALF a mile above Doyle's Bar, on the north bank of Long Creek, is Long Flat. This was one of the last places discovered in the locality; it is evidently an old channel of the main stream, and had been often…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE parted on the threshold of a bush hostelry, as the shades of darkness were gathering upon the ranges, and now. Night wanes—the vapours round the mountains curl'd…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BIDDING good day to the road-makers and the wayfarers, let us resume our route. We now pass a small farm on the right, and a large edifice, intended for an inn, on the left, when two miles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THERE is no person for whom hope does so much as the gold-digger; she sustains him through hardships and dangers at the bare contemplation of which our nature quails, and from which the greatest hero, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It was intimated that the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Dickinson, before whom the above case had been argued, had not been able to agree, and that there would have to be a further argument…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT Ben Bullen I fell in with a party of diggers who had been employed sluicing some distance below Maitland Bar, on the Meroo, and were now on their way to Sydney, having realised a sufficient sum to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE have received some particulars of the working of a very valuable copper mine near the Canoblas Mountains. which we hasten to present to our readers. A letter appeared in this journal about a month since…
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