Gold Fields
THE BRAIDWOOD GOLD FIELDS.—Notwith standing the excessive drought which has prevailed in the district for the past two months, and the sensible diminution of the weekly return of gold…
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Why Gold Does Not Go to France, and Why It Has a Tendency to Go to America. (From the Economist.)
MANY persons have not unnaturally imagined that the immediate consequence of the anomalous operations of the Bank of France would be the withdrawal of gold from this country. They have seen that such…
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BY the Vistula, Captain Souter, we have a week's later papers from Dunedin, her dates being to the 12th instant. Writing from Tuapeka on the 10th, the special…
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Writing from Tuapeka on the 10th, the special correspondent of the Daily Times says :—An extensive rush has taken place to a spot about a mile below the Junction, on the Tuapeka River. A party of…
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BURRANGONG.—The rush opposite Mr. Coneland's store, Chance Gully, promises well. We have heard of some very favourable claims having been bottomed in the wet sinking there, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australian Geology and the Age of the New South Wales Coal. to the Editor of the Empire
SIR,—In reply to the Rev. Mr. Clarke's letter, which appeared in the Empire of the 9th ultimo, and which circumstances have prevented my answering before, I beg to state that whilst that gentleman questions the…
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BY the Witch of the Tees we have papers from Otago (Dunedin), to the 14th ultimo. We quote as follows from the Daily Times.— The usual weekly escort arrived on the afternoon…
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WE have Dunedin papers to the 19th ultimo, being a week later than previous advices. The Daily Times of that date publishes a report by Commissioner Baldwin to the Superintendent of…
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We quote as follows from the Daily Times:— The usual weekly escort arrived on the afternoon of the 13th, bringing 10,154 ozs. 15 dwts. of gold, of which quantity 8023 ozs. 16 dwts, were from Tuapeka,…
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Comparative statement of the gold received at the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint, from the Western, Southern, and Northern gold-fields during the present year, and the quantities received from the same places during…
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SIR,—I perceive by your issue of the 13th that the Government have again been delivered of a whole volume of Regulations for the future mystification of the unfortunate gold-miners. Being one of that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Zealand. the Otago Gold-fields: Value of Land There, &c. (From the Special Correspondent of the Argus.)
ONE of the first among a number of difficulties which present themselves to parties who visit Dunedin for the purpose of spying out the richness or the nakedness of the land before they venture to settle in…
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BROOK'S-CREEK DIGGINGS.—I am happy to say that our diggings are not likely to become def[?]. There has been a decided improvement during the last week, in the gold line. Some of our…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Gold-fields. (From the Tenterfield Chronicle, March 6.)
POVERTY POINT still belies its name. The diggers are doing well without one exception. One claim was disposed of last week for upwards of £100. EWINGAR.—There are thirty five diggers at work…
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DURING the week we have received some startling announcements respecting these diggings. If the private information is true, they eclipse all the discoveries of the precious metal hitherto made in these colonies. But we prefer waiting the confirmation…
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GOLD AT COLLINTON.—Some few weeks ago we drew attention to a gold-field which had been discovered in this locality, and we now hear of its continued success, On Thursday Mr. Dougall was at…
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GOLD-DIGGERS are certainly entitled to fed flattered at the value put upon their services in those colonies they have not as yet patronised with their presence. If their finer feelings are…
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On Thursday night, the 16th, the hage creak of the pumping engine at Hurtley new pit, North Sheilds, snapped in two, one hair, twenty tong weight, falling down the shaft, and carrying the timber and brattices…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Appalling Colliery Accident. Death of Two Hundred and Fifteen, Persons. (From the Home News.)
WHILE all cheerful English households have been adding to their cheerfulness by heaping up the fires that make a pleasant contrast to the cold outside, a terrible tragedy has occurred in one of the great…
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THE following letter has been addressed by Sir Daniel Cooper to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary for the Colonies:— London, 20, Prince's Gardens, W…
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