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422 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 22
SOME ten. days since four old miners, who had recently returned from Kiandra, made their appearance at the Rocky, and reported the discovery of a new and apparently extensive gold-field about twelve…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WITHIN the last ten days a new gold-field has been discoverd to the northward of Armidale, at the head of Tilbuster Creek, on the Tilbuster Station. The looi[?] has been visited by the commisstioner for the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE question whether gold really exists in sandstone, and whether the fact of its being there constitutes sandstone a matrix of gold, continues to occupy much attention, particularly in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DECEMBER 24TH.—The escort of Saturday left with 1284 ozs. 9 dwts, 12grs, and 1895, as I mentioned in the telegram I sent you on Saturday. This is the most extraordinary escort that ever left this place…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOME ten days since four old miners, who hid recently returned from Kiandra, made their appearance at the Rocky, and reported the discovery of anew and apparently extensive gold-field about twelve…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To whom are we chiefly indebted for the gold discovery? This, it may be said, is not now a matter of very great practical importance. The disoovery,has, to use a hackneyed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LAMBING FLAT.—Since our last the Oriental Bank has purchased 800 ozs, of gold from these diggings. The mining news continued to be very favourable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JANUARY 4th.—The escort left last Saturday with 898 ounces 5 dwts, 6 grains gold and £1438 4s. I did think that I would have been enabled to have forwarded you something like a mining report from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WRITING on the 26th ultimo, the correspondent of the Clarence and Richmond Examiner says:—I have just arrived on these diggings, after paying a visit to almost every gold-field in the colony, and I do…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE NORTHERN GOLD-FIELDS.—The Rocky River correspondent o[?] the Arikidale Express, writing on the 8th instant, says:— The reports here lost Saturday from Ironbark are very exciting, Gold is said to have been discovered in very payable quantities in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A REPORT of the comparative value of Australian and English coal for steam purposes, drawn up by Mr. Anderson, the inspector of machinery at Woolwich, furnishes the following interesting results. The coal first experimented on was the remnant of 310…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A REPORT of the [?] of Australian and English coal for steam purposes, drawn up by Mr. [?] the inspector of machinery at Woolwich, furnishes the following interesting [?] The coal first experimented on was the [?] of 300…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JANUARY 7.—The escort left on Saturday, with 492 ounces 14 dwts., and £1000. I have so lately written you that I have little to say. The accounts from Crackenback during the last few…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WRITING on the 26th ultimo, the correspondent of the Clarence and Richmond Examiner says:—I have just arrived on these diggings, after paying a visit to almost every gold-field in the colony, and I do…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEVE[?] has there been an occupation so fall of vicissitudes as that of the gold miner. One day here and only a few days afterwards a hundred miles away, led by the temptation of some " rush," only perhaps to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BARRABA QUABTZ REEF.—During the past week we have received one or two statements from persons who have visited this place. Mr. Murrich, who it may be remembered, addressed a letter to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A PUBLIC meeting of the subscribers to the Gold-fields Stipend Fund was held yesterday evening, at the Church Society's House, Phillip-street. There was a very thin attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BARRABA QUARTE REEF.—During the past week we have received one or two statements form persons who have visited this placed. Mr. Murrich, who it may be remembered, addressed a letter to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We (Bathurst Free Press) have been shown a beautiful sample of gold weighing upwards of 46 ounces, obtained at Little River, a tributary of the Abercrombie which speaks will for a gold field so…
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