The Road: Burrowa to Adelong. (From Our Special Gold-fields Reporter.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 August 1859 · page 2
THE district to the eastward of Burrowa, in common with most of the table land lying at the western base of the great dividing range extending from the Murray to the northern extremity of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The French Emperor's Interference with the English Coal Trade
Empire · Friday 19 August 1859 · page 2
THE official declaration in the Paris Moniteur, that the French Government has resolved henceforth to include coal among the articles that are contraband of war, will take the commercial world somewhat by surprise. Had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold News
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 August 1859 · page 3
ADELONG QUARTZ AND ALLUVIAL DIGGINGS.—The prospects obtained by some of the different claimholders have shewen well, and we doubt not the approaching summer will greatly develop the resources…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Iron and Coal Export Trade of Belgium
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 August 1859 · page 2
WE have been favoured with an official copy of a return by the Belgian Minister of Finance, of the exports of iron ore and minerals from the various mining provinces of Belgium, from the 1st January, 1858, to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gold Fields. (From the Braidwood Dispatch, August 26.)
Empire · Tuesday 23 August 1859 · page 2
BELL'S PADDOCK.—From all the accounts that have arrived in town during the week, we may confidently assert that the diggings in this locality-are-looking-up, and as summer, advances they, will gradually…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gundagai and Its Environs. [From Our Special Gold-fields Reporter.]
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 August 1859 · page 2
SOME soulless biped in Victoria is reported to have deliberately written that "Australia is not worth fighting for." Has he ever witnessed the glories of her sun-light mountains, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Opinions of the German Press. [Translated Expressly for the Empire.] From the Augsburg "A[?]mine Ze[?]ung."
Empire · Friday 26 August 1859 · page 8
THE MORAK IMPORTATANCE OF THE PRESENT STRUGGLE. GERMAY has united, and is arming to oppose one common enemy, against, whom the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gold News. (From the Braidwood Observer.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 August 1859 · page 5
THE Chinamen on the Church and School Lands continue to do well, owing to the frugal mode in which they live, and the care and attention they devote to the washing process. Messrs. Hyland's claims at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold News. (From the Braidwood Dispatch.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 August 1859 · page 8
A[?]ALUEN,—From one end of the diggings to the other, things are rather flat. Everbody is complaining of the secrecity water, and, unless some measures are taken to increase the supply, we fear the miners will saffer considerably, A large quantity of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Colonial Steam Coal. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 August 1859 · page 4
SIR,—Will you do me the favour to insert in your columns the following reply to a paper read before the Philosophical Socity, and published in last Mondy's Herald, respecting an annlysis of some colonial coal with, reference to their steam qualities. The…
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Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 3 September 1859 · page 7
A letter just received from Melbourne contains the following statement:—" We have come upon a seam of gold (pure) at a considerable depth from the surface, 28 inches thick, and uncovered it sufficiently to know that there…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Visit to the Southern Gold Fields. [From Our Special Reporter.] No. I. the Adelong
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 September 1859 · page 2
HAVING crossed the Murrumbidgee at Gundagai, and the rich river flats, subject to frequent inundation, and passed Spencer's new steam-mill, we parted at the entrance of a valley, and will now resume our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold News. (From the Braidwood Observer.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 September 1859 · page 3
THE news from our various gold-fields is far from satisfactory, owing to a want of that useful and necessary element—water. The cry is everywhere heard, and several claims have suspended washing operations…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold News; (From the Braidwood Obsever, September 3.)
Empire · Tuesday 6 September 1859 · page 3
THE news from our various gold fields is far from satisfactory, owing to a want of that useful and necessary elementâwater. The cry is everywhere heard, and severl claims have suspended washing operations in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Northern Gold-fields. (From the Armidale Express.) the Rocky River
Empire · Friday 9 September 1859 · page 2
IF I had money I would hock it to some other diggings is a common saying with many of the Rocky. If the "hocking of it" is with the intention of b[?]ttering their condition, it is very difficult at present to imagine what…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Gold Field Gold Obtained on a Tributary of the Manning, River. (From the Maitland Mereury of Yesterday.)
Empire · Friday 9 September 1859 · page 2
OUR readers will learn with much gratification that gold has been obtained on a tributary of the Little Manning.—We have received two communications on the subject, the first of which, as will be seen, is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipments of Gold Per R. M. S. Bombay
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 September 1859 · page 4
3000 sovereigns...... How, Walker, and Co. 1000 "...... J. Davis and Co. 550 "...... Scales, Brothers 2000 "...... J. Lamont…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Visit to the Southern Gold Fields. [From Our Special Reporter.] No. II
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 September 1859 · page 2
HAVING endeavoured in a former communication to give a general description of the Adelong, above ground, we will now ascend the low range to the left of the mountain valley, and, crossing the great reef at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Toloom Gold-field
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 September 1859 · page 5
THE following important letter, addressed to the Hon. the Secretary for Land and Public Works, has been handed to us for publication:— SIR,—I do myself the honour to address you in reference to a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Parliamentary Paper. Gold-fields' Regulations. (Local Court Rules—araluen Valley.)
Empire · Thursday 22 September 1859 · page 2
1. That all creek claims in Araluen Valley be thirty yards frontage to the watercourse in length, and seventyfive in depth, measured from the centre of the [?]tream or water course; no company to hold more…
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