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396 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 20
WRITING from Dunedin on the 19th ultimo, the special correspondence of the Argus says:— The value of the Dunstan gold-field is now becoming more the subject of quiet debate of wild speculation, as it was at first, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It was imppossible of course, to assertain accurately the returns earned by the miners and puddlers on the alluvial fields. I may take it, howover, that those of them who have opened deposit accounts in the banks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—I went to Tim Thornton's on Monday, 29th, to let him know what I thought of John Smith and his ritings. After we'd had a blow out of bacon and turnip tops (we can't get no cabbage now), we squared round…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Crime, in all its borrors[?]is greatly on the increase— from petty [?]rceny to murder; and what is more surprising, the police seem to be quite useless. Not one case that I can trace in the public papers have they…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Neatly fifteen pounds weight of pure gold were shown to me to-day, as the result of this week'a work in No. 13. The amount of highly [?]uriferous [?]ailings, preserved by the same party from their imperfect procees of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ROCKY RIVER.—The Herald's correspondent states that these diggings, as a whole, are dull and monotonoue, mining being almost at a aland still for want of water for waslting purposes. The fact of the greater…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE BRAIDWOOD GOLD FIELDS.-Having within the last few days paid a visit to most of the different gold fields, we are in a position to give a pretty fair account of what is going on. At Aral[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THERE has just been published a very [?] and in[?] tive report of a select committee of the Commons on the Mint of Australia. In 1855 a Mint was established at Sydney, and has consequently been now at work for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Since the letter I contributed to your columns of the 30th September last, on the ago of the Newcastle and West Maitland Coal Fields, in which I alluded to the controversy between Professor M'Coy and the Rev. W. B…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE BRAIDWOOD GOLD-FIELDS.—As was to be expected, the dry weather is much felt at the araluded. and a few showers would prove highly acceptable, but in spite of all drawbacks the valley shapes fairly,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VIA Melbourne, we have news from Dunedin to the 7th instant. The Daily Times states that the escort from the old fields arrived in town on the 2nd, under the command of Sub-inspecotr Morton. The following were the quantities of gold brought…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Burrangong mining matters are exceeding dull, hundreds leaving for the New Zealand or other goldfields, driven off by the scarcity of water, and the consequent cost of carriage for the washdirt before it can…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining at the Lachlan is proceeding steadily, although some excitement has been caused there by the Eureka Lead swindle. The Escort returns have not been so large as had been expected; but this is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The parties who expected to strike the old bed of the river on Maitlasd Point, have been so far successful that they have struck a run of good wash-dirt, about twelve feet wide and one foot thick, that has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE accounts received from the gold and silver mine at Moruya continue extremely satisfactory. At the bottom of the shaft, where the miners are now driving on the lode, they have found a quantity of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ACCOUNTS were recently published in the Queensland papers of a very important discovery that had been made of a mountain lode of copper on the Peak Downs. One or two of our Sydney capitalists recently…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE miners generally are suffering very severely from the long continued drought, the want of water preventing the washing up of stuff that would be payable were water handy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GENTLEMEN.—In the February number of the "Annals," (No. 50,) you have printed a communication from Professor M'Coy of Melbourne, in which, under the head of "Upper Palæozoic" and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW DIGGINGS NEAR NARRIGA.—We learn from a gentleman who came into town yesterday from Narriga that gold has been struck in twelve to fourteen feet sinking on a creek about four…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE accounts recevied from the gold and silver mine at Moruya continue extremely satisfactory. At the bottom of the shaft, where the miners are now driving on the lode, they have found a quantity of…
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