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396 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 20
SIR,—You will oblige me by kindly inserting these few lines in your philanthropic journal, in reference to the rapid progress of co-operation among the miners, which is probably destined, at no distant day, to effect a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE LACHLAN.—The Observer of the 20th, reports as follows:—Mining matters across the river are looking more lively of late. The prospecting party have sunk through the drift., and will commence sinking for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining OPERATIONS. Gold has been lately found of considerable quantities by the miners located on the diggings running right along the banks of the Shoalhaven River, and to use the quaint…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I hope you will allow me to supply an omission in your enumeration this day of the most remarkable products of the different Australian colonies. On Saturday, the 17th instant, the cotton of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In this case, after an address of five hours from Six William Manning, and his Honor's charge, the jury retired, and at 1 o'clock this morning, returned into Court with a verdict for the plaintiff, £1330, in addition to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →RESIDENTS in Sydney of ten or twelve years' standing are aware that at one period, a considerable quantity of coals was procured from what was known as the Ebenezer Mine, at Lake Macquarie. The coals were considered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GLEANINGS FROM THE LACHLAN - An old miner who for several years resided upon the Braid wood gold fields has furnished us, with the fol-lowing account of the Lachlan gold fields.He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHEREAS it is expedient to amend an Act passed in the twentieth year of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria intituled "An Act for granting a Duty upon Gold" Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Your Bathurst telegraphic reporter has been greatly misled by some person. It is true gold is to be found in the neighbourhood of Wellington, but whether it exists in payable quantity or not remains…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SEPTEMBERS 1ST—For some months past any casual observer would certainly have pronounced the prosperity of these gold-fields to be on the wane. Such an opinion would almost be justified at a first glance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CTAGO.—The news of extensive diggings having been diecovered on the Upper Clutha had reached Auckland, and created great excitement. The discoverers, Messrs. Hartley and Riley (one of whom is an old Californian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We started on a prospecting trip about the 1st of February last, crossing the Molyneux at Oliver's, and striking it again about twenty miles above Pinkerton's. We here obtained sufficient prospects from the banks of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GUNDAGAI DIGGINGS. -The prospects of the Gundagai diggings are improving, and there has been a considerable addition within a few days past to the small population that have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HAD the Gothenburg been half an hour later in her departure from Dunedin, on Monday last, you would by this time here been in receipt of news of a more exciting character than any I have been able to furnish since the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BURRANGONG.—The Courier, of 6th instant, says—Genial spring has usurped the place of bleak winter; the tender boughs put forth their green leaves, and all nature freshens and blooms. But a fortnight ago our roads were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HAD the Gothenburg been half an hour later in her departure from Dunedin, on Monday last, you would by this time have been in receipt of news of a more exciting character than any I have been able to furnish since the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Wednesday, the 10th instant, an open air district meeting of the miners was held on the "Flats," near St. John's: Church, Macquarieroad, for the purpose, of taking into considers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON THURSDAY, 11th instant, Mr. L. H. Sibthorpe, S. G. C., was on the ground of the newly discovered goldfield near Wellington, for the purpose of marking out the prospestors' claim, issuing miners' rights, and other duties…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Caledonia South.-Ranken's prospecting party have commenced operations in real earnest, and will soon be getting out wash dirt.No.5 and 6 have bottomed,and are reported to…
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