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396 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 20
A PUBLIC meeting of the inhabitants of Forbes took place at the Court-house on Monday last at four o'clock to take into consideration the necessary steps for obtaining additional police protection for the Lachian diggings and for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR F. POTTINGER's PARTY.—It will be recollected that the attack upon the escort took place at the Rocks near the station of Mr. John F. Clements Eugowra Creek and it was the discharge of about a dozen shots which first…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE GULPH DIGGINGS -By private advices we learn that trade is very dull at Nerrigundah, and mining operations at a stand still on account of continued wet weather. Bomba creek is, however…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE LACHLAN.-We understand that the quantity of gold got last week out of one machine-ful of dirt from the prospecting claim of the calcd nia North was 136 Onnces; and the party are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday a telegram was received in Sydney notifying the apprehension of two men, whom it is fully believed, formed a portion of the gang who robbed the Escort. It appears that INSPECTOR…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Inspector Pottinger, Mr. Mitchell and Detective Lyons were returning after an ineffectual search for the Gold Escort robbers. Near Wagga Wagga they met three men with one pack horse, and ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR FREDERICK POTTINGER overtook some of the robbers of the Lachlan escort, and captured three of them and a quantity of gold, at a place near Beckham's station, about fifty miles from here. He was subsequently stuck up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SOUTHERN CROSS, OR LAGOON LEAD.âThe hopes formed of this comparatively new lead have been, doomed to meet with bitter disappointment. It appears that the prospecting shaft, on the township side of the Lagoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Permit me through your valuable journal to lay before the miners of Australia the difference between mining in British Columbia, and mining in Australia. In the first instance as a prelude, I started from Gipps Land…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BURRANGONG.—The Courier of 12th says:—The absence of rain on Lambing Flat for some time past has again left the miners on all dry diggings without water for washing the dirt and on some of them there is not sufficient…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following official report has been addressed by Sergeant Condell to the Inspector General of Police:-June 23rd, 1862.Sir, On Saturday, the 14th instant, I was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The receipt of gold by escott during the four weeks ending July 19th, was 54,375 ounces, which was an increase of 14,386 ounces over the receipts of the previous month, and an increase ever the corresponding month…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE late escort robbery still continues to form the main topic of interest in connection with our goldfields. The particulars of the robbery are thus given:âThe attack upon the escort took place at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Southern Cross of the 6th instant says: We are now enabled to give a more detailed account of the proceedings of the diggers at Coromandel than we were in "our last, a gentlemen who returned yesterday having put us in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE GULF DIGGINGS.-A Correspondent of the Braidwood Dispatch writing July 13th, informs us that the highest portion of the diggers at Nerrigundah have been innoculated with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday afternoon the managers of this company having, in answer to a request to that effect, consented to meet the workmen now on strike, for the purpose of submitting certain for her and ultimets propositions for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Southern Cross of the 6th instant says: We are now enabled to give a more detailed account of the proceedings of the diggers at Coromandel than we were in our last, a gentleman who returned yesterday having put us in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BURRANGONG.—The Courier of 19th instant, says:—Water is still the cry on nearly all the dry diggings on Burrangong. The want of a sufficient supply for mining purposes is a very serious drawback to the poor miner,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold IN GOULBURN.- There is probably hardly a town in the colony where is not said to have been discovered at some time or another ; Goulburn has not been an exception. On various occasions it has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BURRANGONG.-Two new rushes have lately taken place to Petticoat Flat. One is too dry and shallow ground on Sawpit Gully, where, at a depth of from eight to sixteen feet, prospects of…
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