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The telegraph to Kiandra has been once more set to ork, after being out of order for nearly a month. [?]hough the weather has cleared up there is still too [?]h snow on the ground to allow of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining affairs at the Lachlan are admitted on all hands to be materially improving since the cessation of the rain, that threatened to deluge the workings. The greater part of the leads, which heretofore only…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →[?]g at the Rocky River offers some little more [?]agement than it has done for some time past. [?] gutter has been struck on Mount Gore with[?] [?] sinking. and averaging half-an-ounce to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WELLINGTON GOLD-FIELD.—The Herald's correspondent states that on Thursday, 11th instant, Mr. L. H. Sibthorpe, S. G. C., was on the ground of the newly discovered gold-field near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HIGHWAY robberies still continue to be committed in all directions, and almost with impunity; for so frequent are the offences and so great the demand made upon the of activity the police, that, whilst they are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →REPORTED NEW GOLD FIELD.-Yesterday morning, intelligence was brought into town of the discovery of a new goldfield, by two men, who, it appears, have made application to Mr. J.H…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The quantity of gold received by escort at the Mint from the various diggings since the departure of the last mail has been rather above the average of monthly receipts for the present year, and more than 50 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A LETTER was recently addressed by Professor M. B. Pell, of the Sydney University, to the Secretary for Lands, bringing under the notice of the Minister a method of which the writer was in possession for the reduction of gold ores,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BY way of Melbourne we have news from Dunedin to the 9th instant. The accounts from the new diggings are not so flattering as previous advices. The snow melting from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Since the publication of the tabular statement of trials of Australian coal at Woolwich, in your paper of Friday last, I have heard so many enquiries for explanation, that I beg to send you a simple…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The LACHLAN.-Depend upon it, Sir we are hound to go a head as the Yankees say. 'Gold has been struck on the Southern Cross Lead-one and a half dwt. to the dish, and the prospect was not a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR—A few days back there appeared in the columns of a provincial paper, a return to an order of the honorable the House of Commons, dated the 5th June, 1862, and signed by C. H. Pennell, chief clerk, "showing the result…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DESPITE the glowing reports from Otago and the consequent exodus from Burrangong, the Lambing Flat gold-field maintains its yield of 3000 ozs, per week. The secret of this is that new leads have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DESPITE the glowing reports from Otago and the consequent exodus from Burrangong, the Lambing Flat gold-field maintains its yield of 3000 oxs. per week. The secret of this is that new leads have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BY way of Melbourne we have news from Dunedin to the 9th instant. The accounts from the new diggings are not so flattering as previous advices. The snow melting from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE NEW GOLD-FIELD NEAR NELLIGEN.—Mr. Stephen Richardson, who returned from Nelligen on Monday informs us that there is a mistake about the recent discovery of gold at this place, and we…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A LETTER was recently addressed by Professor M. B. Pell, of the Sydney University, to the Secretary for Lands, bringing under the notice of the Minister a method at which the writer was in possession for the redaction of gold ores,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—I rode over the other day to see my friend Jim Thornton, as lives near Sodwalla. Jim is one of your well-to-do settlors, as he got four or five cattle stations on the lachlan, but lives on his farm down here. A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WRITING from Dunedin on the 19th ultimo, the special correspondent of the Argus says:—The value of the Dunstan gold-field is now becoming more the subject of quiet debate than of wild speculation, as it was at first, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WELLINGTON DIGGINGS.—The Herald's correspondent at these goldfields writes as follows :—These diggings do not show any increased activity of late ; indeed, there appears but poor encouragement…
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