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396 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 20
COROMANDEL.—Our Auckland contemporary, the Daily Southern Cross, of the 11th ultimo, says:—In yesterday's paper we announced the arrival of gold and quartz specimens, weighing 14 lbs. 7½ozs. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE STRIKE AT ARALUEN.—Our latest advices from the Arsl[?]en, inform us that there is no cessation of the disturbances in the labour market—the strike had not terminated. It is also stated that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →VICTORIA LEAD.—Nos. 9, 10, and 11 are still driving for the gutter, Nos. 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 (Baker and Company) have commenced their new shafte, and are logging up. In Nos. 19, 20, 21, and 22 such a heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →VICTORIA LEAD.-Nos. 9, 10, and 11 are still driving for the gutter. Nos. 14, 15,16, 17, and 18 (Baker and Company) have commenced their new shaft, and are logging up. In Nos. 19, 20…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GOLD AT BATHURST.—The correspondent of the Lachlan Observer says:—In a late communication I m[?]ted you that a quantity of surface staff had been sent to Sydney, and that it had realised three ounces to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OUR DIGGINGS. -The reports from the various diggings are satisfactory. At Jembaicubene the claims below Myers' are yielding first-rate, and it is thought that the miners of the locality…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →KIANDRA.-From private sources we are informed that all mining operations are suspended owing to the heavy snow that has been falling the last week or two. There has been a direct…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AUGUST 11TH, 1862.—A circumstance has transpired here within the last few days, which, although at first threatened serious consequences to us as a community, promises at present to be of great utility…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE LACHLAN.—The Obse[?]ber of 6th instant reports as follows:—On the South Lead (No. 49), the paddock of wash-dirt obtained from this claim has just been washed-up at the puddling mills of Ava[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At a meeting of the representatives of the different fire insurance companies doing business in this city, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted. Resolved—That petroleum rock oil, and earth oil, in a crude or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I beg to annex for the information of the public as well as of the various fire offices here, extracts showing the[?] that are considered necessary in Montreal and in Liverpool for the protection of properly endangered by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GOLD AT CUDGEGONG.-A few days ago, Mr.T. Eames, of the Royal Hotel, cudgegong, called at our office with a splendid sample of heavy gold obtained in the river at the above place by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I am much obliged to Mr. Robert Thomson, for his thoughtfulness in publishing the regulations that have been made in other cities for the protection of the citizens and the insurance companies against the dangers to which they…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Since the plentiful fall of rain, that has now filled all the waterholes, and set every creek running, the hopes of the miners, so long deferred by the continued droughts, have been revived. Until these…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On the Lachlan heavy gold has been struck on the Calidonian lend, yielding 1½oz. to the bucket; and on the Sebastapol lead prospect of a pennyweight to the dish have been obtained on bottoming. There…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CRIME is notoriously infectious. We seldom witness the commission of a great offence without also seeing a number of imitations following close upon it. It has been so on the gold-fields and in their vicinity. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The only item worthy of record that has reached us from the North, is the fact that Mr. Collett, lately Chief Commissioner for Roads, has taken a large party up to the Denison diggings, where he has opened a new…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →I AM sorry to have to report that one of our miners, named Hugh Hayes, has been severely crushed by a mass of coals falling upon him to-day in the B Pit. The medical gentlemen attending him have slight hopes of his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR.—The coal precured atMoreton Bay is well known to be far inferior to the average coals of this colony. Whether, when the pits are sunk to a lower seam the quality will improve, I cannot say, although the probability is that it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Quartz REEF. -We are informed that a valuable quartz reef was discovered last week at Clarkes Creek, Meroo. It appears that for some time past a Chinaman has been in the…
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