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185 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 10
PURSUING our journey from the inn at Guntawang, by a mountain road, ten miles to the westward from that place, and double the distance following the windings of the river, brings the traveller to a broad…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE prospect of quariz-mining have been rendered most cheering by recent intelligence respecting some new discoverles in the Northern gold region. Boonoo Boonoo has supplied quartz of prodigious yield—a lump…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE nomination of candidates for the representation of the Tumut district took place on Monday last, from the balcony of Mr. S. Emanuel's store. Tumut. The returning-office, Mr. J. A. Broughton, read the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ROCKY RIVER, JUNE 23.—For the last seven or eight years, every copy of the thousands of papers that have daily issued from your office, or from all the other newspaper offices in the colony, have, in some way or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE subject to which we referred last week in the commercial part of our journal was mentioned in the House of Commons on Monday. Mr. C. Villiers asked the Secretary of State for India whether there was at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Notwithstanding the difficulties in the way of reaching the gold-fields of British Columbia are still formidable enough, there is no doubt that they have, of late, been greatly diminished, and that the chances…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHEN the city writer of the Times can find no other subject for discussion than the ancient platitudes of Sir Archibald Alison anent the currency, the writer of commercial leaders in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →According to the bank returns of last week, there was then £19,951,022 of bullion and coin in its vaults. Of this sum only a very small portion was silver coin. The bulk was gold. In the Irish and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHURCH AND SCHOOL LANDS.—Since our last visit many had left for what had been considered better ground, and we found that several parties had settled down at the crossing-place opposite Exeter farm. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CHURCH AND SCHOOL LANDS.—Since our last visit many had left for what had been considered better ground, and we found that several parties had settled down at the crossing place opposite Exeter farm. The few that remained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE recent rains which have fallen throughout the colony have had the effect of improving the prospects of the diggers in several localities. At one of the gold fields in the vicinity of Braidwood, the Little River…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following is an extract from a letter just received from the above locality:- "It is the opinion of many old miners that this field will [?]urn out second to none in the Northern district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As the subject of quartz reefs is now attracting a great deal of attention, and they are likely to become a leading feature in the industrial pursuits of the colony, a few, particulars of the above may not be uninteresting to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE traveller on the Southern Road will be surprised to emerge from 3 dull, wooded, and uninteresting country, upon a cluster of buildings indicating by their form the presence of a mining population, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOME time ago I had the pleasure to record the good fortune of a party of ten at the Lower Araluen, in having obtained ninety-six ounces of gold from a cut in the bed of the creek. Last week the same party…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE excitement at Gullidge's rush, on the cast side of Mount Jones, continues as animated as when it was opened a week age. I may safely say that three-fourths of the Rocky diggers are at work there at present, but I…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LEAVING the banks of the Cudgegong, and taking the road which crosses the plain, you pass between two farms, the property of Mr. G. Rouse, and reach the entrance of one of those valleys which load into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE plains of Merrinde[?], bounded to the southward by the forchills which terminate the steep descents from the table-land, extend to that point where the waters of the Meroo mingle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHURCH AND SCHOOL LANDS.—Complaints are made that the Chinese in this locality are in the habit of committing petty larcenies of washing stuff, and, indeed, of anything else they can lay their hands upon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CHURCH AND SCHOOL LANDB.—We are sorry to [?] that the chinese in this locality are in the habit of committing petty larcenies of washing stuff, and, in[?]d, of an thing [?]lse they can lay their [?]ands upon. It will be…
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