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282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 15
IN the past seventeen years 33,910,952 ounces of gold, were raised in Victoria, representing a money value of £135,643,808; and the yield of California for the eighteen years ending in December 1866 was, 696,658,331 dollars worth of gold, or 36,954,890 ounces; or at £4 per ounce,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE main feature of interest in the history of our gold fields is that attention is now being more generally directed to the quartz reefs of the colony, as even a more certain means of procuring gold than…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sak[?], for Rockhampton, 5000 sovereigns…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE following official correspondence will be read with interest by all our readers who are engaged in mining for gold, as well as by others who have transactions with the Sydney' Mint:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WITH reference to the company in process of formation to work the silver and lead mines at the head of the Iris River, the Newcastle Chronicle states:â" We believe that matters…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE following official correspondence will be read with interest by all our readers who are engaged in mining for gold, as well as by others who have transactions with the Sydney Mint:—…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →REPORT of the Directors for the half-year ended the 31st March, 1868, presented to the shareholders at the halfyearly general meeting, held at the Chamber of Commerce, Bridge-street, Sydney, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—As the above gold-fields are now attracting considerable attention from this colony, Victoria, and New Zealand, I deem it my duty in the interests of all again to address you. I am chiefly led to do so from having notice in your…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Saxonia, for Rockhampton, 5000 sovereigns. City of Adelaide, for Melbourne, 60,000 sovereigns. Dunbar Castle, for London, 30,000 sovereigns, 5344 oz. gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Burnt Yards Gold-field is about twelve miles from Carcoar, and at no great distance from the [?]ellabula Rivulet. There are about eighty persons working there, teh majority obtaining a precarious living from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE correspondent of the Braidwood Dispatch, writing from the Araluen Valley on the 23rd ultimo, says:—The quantity of gold offered on Tuesday was a decided improvement upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →SIR,—Permit me to reply to "A. T.'s" letter, contained in your issue of this day. I was not aware that six years ago goods were discharged for a squatter on the Flinders at that part of the Burdekin…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I have visi'[?]d Tapu Creek:(or[?] [?] it is now called, Hastings), with the object of as[?]taining the truth of the rumours circulated here of the fab[?]lous wealth of Quinn and Cashell's claim. Publicans and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the Florence Irving we have the Cle[?]land Bay Express to the 25th ultimo, During the [?]t month alone, and up to that date, 170 diggers had arrived at Townsville on route to the Cape River. That journal urges…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE reports from Araluen are anything but satisfactory, seeing that there has been another attempt made to coerce employers to give a higher rate of wages than they think the work…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →IN our last issue we briefly mentioned the fact that coal had been discovered at Anvil Creek, half way between Maitland and Singleton, of the kind used for the manufacture of kerosene oil. We had, on Tuesday, an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I'erceiving by the published reports that an impression is abroad calculated to induce persons to repair to the Maryborough gold-fields, a[?] one who has just come from that neighbourhood, I beg to offer pro bono publice a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE learn from last Saturday's Tamworth Examiner that the drought has been severely felt at Bowling Alley Point, still one digger lately made £9 for his week's work, and others have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—receiving by the published reports that an impression is abroad calculated to induce persons to repair to the Maryborough gold-fields, as one who has just come from that neighbourhood, I beg to offer pro bono publico a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN our last issue we briefly mentioned the fact that coal had been discovered at Anvil Creek, half way between Maitland and Singleton, of the kind used for the manufacture of kerosene oil. We had, on Tuesday, an…
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