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282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 15
GENTLEMAN,— I have just received in sample of gold from this place, out of two ounces and a half that Mr Kennedy has purchased from the men on the Creek. I have visited the place, and it only wants population…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following letter from our correspondent, although despatched on the 24th ultimo, only reached us yesterday:March 24th, 1860…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →As may have been gathered from our former remarks on the lately published report of the Board of Science, we entertain no very high estimate of the opinions held by the board in matters…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WHATEVER may be said or thought of Kiandra, it is very plain that, from that source as well as from others, the yield of gold in New South Wales is very considerably on the increase…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Wednesday last we were afforded an opportunity of visiting and inspecting the above mines, which are situated on the joint properties of Messrs. Somerville and Dr. B. O'Brien, on the face of the range, about 7…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AND now for the Southern limits of the Clarence basin, which, wild and rugged as it may appear to the casual traveller along the beaten paths, contains some of the most fertile valleys that can be found on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →KIANDHA GOLD FIVLDS.—Our escort, which left Kiandra on the 2nd instant, carrying more than 7400 ounces of gold, will, I am afraid, without cause, tend to accelerate the excitement that is already too great…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →OUR escort, which left yesterday, carrying more than 7400 [?]ounces of gold will, I am afraid, without cause, lend to accelerate the excitement that is already too great respecting these…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE summer of 1859 was hotter and dryer than had been the case for several years back, and mining operations were checked to a greater extentthan usual. The present winter is making ample amends, and already more…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →APRIL 7TH.— While many adventurers have returned disheartened, some few determined spirits persevered and are now beginning to bring to light that there is a fair prospect that Shoalhaven will rank amongst some of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—The reported discovery of gold on land a [?] Parramaits, although possibly a hoex, and without any foundation, recalls to my mind an incidant connected with digging, trivial perhaps in itself, yet if remembered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In our last monthly Summary of colonial intelligence compiled for the perusal of our readers in the Old World, we called attention to the steadily increasing prosperity of the gold-producing interests of this country…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE new gold-field at the base of the Australian Alps has not belied its reputation for richness or for nuggets, numbers of which now adorn the shop-windows of Sydney. In our last account of the Snowy, we…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN the winter of 1854,I was working on one of the principal fields in Victoria. It had been a cold, miserable day, with a regular Scotch mist falling towards Sundown; my mate and I made for the tent, tired and wet through, We had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AS we approach that portion of the eastern slopes of the main range in the vicinity of Armidale, the surface of the declining country, where the trappean crust has been removed by disintegration and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Southern mail-road from Armidale at once plunges into the open forest upon leaving the township. To the south-west there has been no agricultural improvement or settlement, although the vast,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT has seldom been the good fortune of the inhabitants of a new country, still a comparative wilderness, to possess such a valuable mass of information with regard to its geological…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"COME on, H—"Where to?" "Why, to the policecourt; did'nt you hear that Scotch Jack got into a row last night, and was lockod up." "The deuce he did; come along, then." And away we went to have (as we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TEMPORA MUTANTUR—and so Tumut ft felt it yesterday. No troops of mounted horsemen from the Reef—no marshalled forces of a well organised contest—gave any liveliness to the scene. A stranger passing through the town would not have dreamed that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The mine to which, from its present richness, and prospective value, the name of Wallsend has been given, is about three-and-a-half miles from the Waratah station, on the Great Northern Railway, and…
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