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282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 15
There is nothing new under the sun. The oldest gold-fields in the world become the last discovered "diggings," and the Ophir of King Solomon is the new El Dorado of South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fat Catt[?]: Dull market this week, there being again a heavy supply forward, fully 950 head offered to the trade; prices are, consequently, lower than for same months. We look opon it as a tempuary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two MILE FLAT.—The Mudgee Liberal states there is scareely anything to report on these fields. They are now in a languishing state for want of rain. A few days rain would be of great benefit to this part of the country. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EMU CREEK.—The Mining Record of Saturday says:— We have, unfortunately, to report that the drought continues, and that we have now only six machines at work. Since our last report there has been a retort at Wellington's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JEWS' CHEEK.—The Bathurst Times states that the diggings at Jews' Creek appear to be progressing 'plendidly, and the population is increasing daily. Gold is said to be found in quantities perfectly satisfactory to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Araluen correspondent of the Braidwood etch, in his weekly report from the valley, plains that the banks there have reduced price of gold to such a figure that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EMU CREEK GOLD-FIELD.—November 29.—No rain yet, and so no water, which I am afraid will ruin this place for a time, as it sets so many oat of work, the machines mostly being idle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From Port Elizabeth to Hope Town, there are several excellent roads. The Baardepoort, vid Uitenhave, and through the Graaff Reinet division, ia the post direct. Over the Zuurberg…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →By the Edith Smith we have received Port Elizabeth papers to the 29th September, and extract the following from the Telegraph of that date:— "No further news has been received from the interior…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TUMUT.—The correspondent of the Gundagai Times says: —"As regards mining news I have nothing special to record. The claims are all at work, and the crushing machines are stamping away as usual. Mr. A. D…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FMU CREEK.—The Mining Record of Saturday says:— Tho number of machines able to continue at work is lessening every week. Vaughan's and Kirkpatrick's have stopped, leaving at the present time at work only three out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrible colliery accident occured on Wednesday morning at the Groen Pit, belonging to the New British Iren Company, near Ruaben, by which ten men were killed and fifteen injured. This colliery is rather…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BY the Edith Smith we have received Port Elizabeth papers to the 29th September, and extract the following from the Telegraph of that date:— "No further news has been received from the interior…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE Moruya correspondent of the Braidwood Dispatch says, of the prospecting recently going on in the coast district:— The prospectors have all returned from the Dromedary…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fat Cattle.—The supply of good cattle under the requirements this week, and prices have looked up again. We quite best bullocks from £6 to £7 10s, Fat Calves: Much heavier supply than usual. Prices…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ARALUEN.—The Braidwood Dispatch correspondent writes:—"Altogether our yield this month may be safely put down as over 4500 oz., being a considerable increase on the average of the last six months, and there is every…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN certain quarters we have heard much of the advantages which other countries, and especially the United States, present over Great Britain as market to which our ironworkers caff take their labour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident of a most melancholy nature happened on Monday, 2nd November, at the Nut Grove Colliery, belonging to Mr. Radley about two miles from St. Helens. It would appear that the colliery is ventilated by two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE extract the following article, with reference to the recently opened diggings on the southern coast line, from the columns of the Illawarra Express of Saturday last:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Natal papers, to hand by the Avoca, do not contain any definite information about the South African cold discovery. It seems, however, that the Natal people have taken the opening up of the auriferous…
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