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235 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 12
It is now very generally known that the Gold Commissioners are, with some four or five exceptions, to be absolutely dismissed from the public service. The Government by this step will effect a money saving of between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Friday, May 11, was fixed for the ceremony of atarting a new engine which has just been erected at the Talisker Mine. Accordingly, on the previous day. Messrs. L. Glyde, M.P.: W. Everared, M. P.; J. M…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Southern, Northern, and Western escorts have delivered the following at the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint:—Week ending April 21. From Braidwood, 53-13 ozs. 17 dwt.; Kiandra, 225 ozs. 12 dwts,;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The news from our gold-fields—the Western especially—is much more encouraging than it has been for many months past. On all the old established fields in the Western Districts the yield of gold at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—It has been amply proven that this colony, and, indeed, the surrounding colonies, abound in gold-bearing quartz-reefs, and recent publications have put forth as a fact that so much as 140 ounces of gold to the ton of crushed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN its Summary for Europe, the West Coast Times of 12th instant remarks that the past month has been characterised more by a steady adherence of the miners to old ground than by fresh discoveries made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Tuesday evening last Mr. Radd, the member for the Southern Gold-fields, attended a meeting of the miners of that portion of his extensive electorate at the house of Mr. John Hogan, Upper Araluen. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Where does the gold come? is often asked by people here, but no one seems prepared to give an answer. Many are doing very little—in fact, but a bare living—which others have handled but little gold these…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What is coal? is a question more satisfactorily answered by a little roundabout explanation than by a direct reply. The say that coal is altered and mineralised vegetable matter is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—For the last three years, sueccesive Governments have promised to introduce to Parliment an amended Gold-fields Act, and at last it would appear that there is some probability of the promise being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE accounts given by our (Special Reporter of the condition of the Northern Gold-fields shew that the late drought has fallen quite as heavily on the gold-mining interest as it has upon the pastoral or the agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I am not in any way directly interested in the goldfields, being neither a miner nor a trader—neither am I a politician inclined to meddle with questions that concern the colonial Government; but, as an old resident in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →After the great anxiety which the Barwon gold robbery had caused to the company who own the steamer, and to Mr. W. W. Marsh, their agent here, it affords us much stisfaction to state that the stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The amendment of the Golf-fields' Act is one of the objects to which the attention of the Legislature must be directed during the approaching session. And the hopes which the gold miners have entertained for years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I am not in any way directly interested in the gold fields, being neither a miner nor a trader—neither am I a politican inclined to meddle with questions that concern the colonial Government; but, as an old resident…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One the morning of Wednesday, the 16th, the news rapidly spread through the district, that the contractors employed upon the prospecting shaft had found certain our ferous indications in the dilavial stratum…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEYOND a passing notice or a stray paragraph taken from some American newspaper the English public have learnt little from the press, and necessarily not much from any other source of the surprising wealth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is well known to metallurgists that the [?] mation of gold is often attended with peculiar difficulties, and that in the best conducted operations on a large scale there is always a considerable, often a large…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When retrenchment was first forced upon the attention of the late Ministry, Mr Cowper at once turned his eyes to the offical staff on the several gold fields. It had been perfectly evident to the country for a long time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nothing so retards the development of our mineral [?] and makes investments in them so hazardous [?] of trained scientific engineers geologists, as the [?] Whether money can of cannot be…
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