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Mining & the mines, 1861

422 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 22

The Tuapeka Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 October 1861 · page 16

By the steamer Kembla, we have papers to the 12th instant from Otago. She brings 7000 ounces of gold. The Witness of that says:—The latest news from T[?] is the discovery of a new g[?]lly, called Evans'…

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The Western Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 October 1861 · page 5

The only items of information that come to us from the West are from the Meroo. There, the rush to Spicer's ground still continues, and there are now said to be upwards of a thousand diggers on the…

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The Northern Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 October 1861 · page 5

Mr. Commissioner Douglas, in charge of the Hanging Rock District, has paid an official visit to the Denison diggings, near Scone, and has reported very favourably on them to the Government…

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The Southern Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 October 1861 · page 5

At Lambing Flat, order has been so far restored that the services of the Artillery have been dis= pensed with, and they and their guns returned to Sydney in the beginning of the present month. A…

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Our Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 October 1861 · page 5

OUR report upon the gold-fields of New South Wales for the present month presents little, if any, change from that made in our last Summary. The rush to the New Zealand gold-fields has almost entirely…

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Reported Gold-field at the North. "Dunedin, October 9th, 1861

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 October 1861 · page 16

[?] the honour to report to you that I have just returned from an inspection of the district recently reported by Mr. Leggatt as being a payable gold-field. The [?] on which the gold was found is situated on the middle [?]k…

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Reported Gold-field at the North. "Dunedin, October 9.b., 1861

Empire · Monday 21 October 1861 · page 8

"I have the honour to report to you that i have just returned from an inspection of the district recently reported by Mr. Leggatt as being a payable gold-field The croek on which the gold was found is situated on…

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Country News. Westebn Gold-fields. [From a Correspondent.]

Empire · Tuesday 22 October 1861 · page 3

HARGRAVES, OCTOBER 15TH.—The small rush to Fighting man's Gully is new over. There are not ten men left and they are doing but very little—many not getting "t[?]oker." The highest I can hear of having been made…

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Gold [?]Er Noutham, for Point De Galle

Empire · Tuesday 22 October 1861 · page 4

I [?] go'd dnot (6 or), L. E. Hordern. 1 ditto ditto coln (£[?]), Deputy Master Mint. I ditto ditto ditto (£8O0), Hardy Brolhors. I ditto ditto ditto (£[?]), E.Teillard and Co…

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Gold Fields

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 23 October 1861 · page 6

We understand the party organized through the exertions of Mr. Torie of the Nowra Inn, Shoalhaven, have been highly successful, and that the rush anticipated by the Observer…

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The Otago Gold-fields. (From Yesterday's Government Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 October 1861 · page 5

PUBLIC NOTICE.—The largely increasing immigation to this Province from the adjacent colonies, notwithstanding the appearance both in Australia and in Dunedin of such accounts of the Gold-field as should have induced…

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The Otago Gold-fields

Sydney Mail · Saturday 26 October 1861 · page 7

PUBLIC NOTICE.—The largely increasing immigration to this Province from the adjacent colonies, notwithstanding the appearance both in Australia and in Dunedin of such accounts of the Gold-field as should have induced…

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Gold Fields

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 October 1861 · page 3

OTAGO DIGGINGS.—The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston), says:—We have been favoured with a copy of the following private letter to a gentleman in Brisbane-street, from his two sons…

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New Zealand. the Tuapeka Gold-fields

Sydney Mail · Saturday 26 October 1861 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The Witness of 12th instant says:—The latest news from Tuspeka is the discovery of a new gully, called Evans' Gully, about four miles south-west from Gabriel's Gully. From a claim there was dug. in the presence of the…

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Reported Gold-field at the North. "Dunedin, October 9th, 1861

Sydney Mail · Saturday 26 October 1861 · page 4

"I have the honour to report to you that I have just returned from an inspection of the district recently reported by Mr. Leggatt as being a payable gold-field. The creek on which the gold was found is situated on the middle fork…

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The Gold Crop of Australia

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 October 1861 · page 2

Digging for gold has every appearance natural to the most lucrative of all operations—especially when there are fields of that metal for the exercise of the labour. But appearances are frequently…

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Molong Gold-fields. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Tuesday 29 October 1861 · page 3

SIR—While the good[?] Sydney are w[?], with no [?]ness, the departure of some thousands of hardy enterprising diggers from their shores, s[?]ted New Zealand ward by the accounts from Tuapeka; and…

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Gold Fields

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 November 1861 · page 3

THE GOLF COUNTRY.—We have intelligence from Nerrigundah to the 20th instant. A great rush took place on the previous Friday ta a creek on the Turosa River, about 12 miles above…

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Gold News

Sydney Mail · Saturday 2 November 1861 · page 6

MIXING MEMORADRA.— As a specimen of what may be lost by individual miners by their insane rushing from one place to another, we may mention the case of claim No. 10 on the Lancashire. The party…

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