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422 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 22
MR. Wright, Mail Contractor, returned from the Lachlan diggings last night. On Tuesday he saw Kirkpatrick's party wash several buckets which averaged five (5) ounces to the bucket…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE following return shows the quantity of gold deposited at the Sydney Branch of the Roral Mint, from each district, during the present year, and the total receipts for the corresponding period of 1860:-…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NOVEMBER 1ST.—These fields that have been so much talked about lately and yet so little known, are situated in the Western district, about three miles distant from the Lachlan River ; they are about eighty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney received a " dig in the ribs " on Tuesday sufficient to arouse her from her apathy, on it being rumoured thal gold had been discovered in extraordinary quantities on the Lachlan. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,âThe success met with on the Lachlan gold-field will naturally excite attention to a most promising district. For many years I have anticipated this success; for, as you will find by reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT would be difficult to convey to the people of Sydney a correct idea of the importance of the new gold-field on [?]e Lachlan. The produce of the Western districts, which, owing to the wretched state of the road over the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE have been politely favoured by the Hon. Minister of Lands with the following despatch from the Police Magistrate at Gundagai, on the above goldfields:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE news from the Lachlan gold-fields continues of a most favourable and exciting character. Our telegrams inform the reader that one party got seventy-two ounces in a day, [?]n another a hundred ounces before four…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following letter has been kindly handed to us by the Honorable the Secretary for Lands for publication:- "Sir,—I do myself the honour to report for your…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I have often heard it remarked by intelligent gold minors, well acquainted with the general physical character of our ter[?]tory, that if a regular and sy[?]t matic search for the precious motals were instituted, under…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—As it may be a matter of considerable importance that it should be generally known that coal appears plentiful at Yadbro, I beg permission, through your columns, to call public attention to the fact, and would suggest to my…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—As it may be a matter of considerable importance that it should be generally known that coal appears plentiful at Yadbro I beg permission, through your columns, to call public attention to the fact, and would suggest to my…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM a private letter, received from the Lachlan by lost night's mail by a highly respectable gentleman in the city, we copy (with his sanction) the annexed particulars. The intelligence thus conveyed confirms…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MINING NEWS.—The seasonable rain which fell last week has had a most beneficial effect upon mining affairs in the Happy Valley of the Araluen, where the scarcity of wafer has for some time past…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following is an extract of a letter, dated [?] November 16, addressed to Mr. Thomas Garrett, M.P., by a gentleman in an official position at Burran[?], whose veracity can be implicity relied upon:—" I have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambing Flat, though in course of desertion by its exciteable population, still keeps up its reputation, and our correspondent's details finds sufficient to cause a rush, if they had taken…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE following particulars of the new gold-fields will be read with interest. They are from a correspondent on the spot:- Some three months ago a rush took place from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Matters are rather dull at Spicer's Creek at the present moment, owing t[?] the great want o[?] water, the heavy rush having exhausted the standing supply, and no rain having since…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →For the first time these many months, we have to record the voice of complaining from the Peel River. The drought there is so great that the sluices, from which the greater part of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ONCE more the point of interest to the miner has shifted, and Lambing Flat that had superseded the Snowy River, has now in its turn had to give place in attraction to the newly opened…
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