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403 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 21
WIGGINS's party of four, working the Homeward Bound Reef, at Little River, struck on a lump of 74 lbs. weight, which yielded 300 oz. 7 dwts. of gold, valued at £1300…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE DENISON.—The Armidale Exprets says we have been favovred by Gold Commissioner Addison with the following informption relative to the Denison. From 1st January to 31st August last, 415 tons of quartz were crushed,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Intelligence reached Braidwood on Saturday last of a most extraordianry rich find of gold in the Home ward Bound claim, on the Mosquito Reef, Little River. The paries working in the claim, on coming upon it, were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FROM the weekly report of the Araluen correspondent of the Braidwood Dispatch, we take the following, under date the 15th instant:— Our mining interest in the Valley does not just…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE following new Regulations, made in pursuance of the Gold-Fields Act of 1866, having been approved of by his Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executhe Connell, were published in a Supplement to last Friday's Government Gazette…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE SOUTH-EASTERN GOLD-FIELDS.âAt Bendock (writes the Bombala correspondent of the Monaro Mercury) the rain has been remarkably heavy, old residents describing last Sunday as a day long to be remembered. China…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to approve of the following new Regulations made in pursuance of the Gold Fields Act of 1866…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE PEEL RIVER DIGGINGS.—We (Tamworth Examiner) stated in previous issues that Messrs. Williams, Westaway, and Tomision had discovered another very rich quartz claim at Bowling Alley Point, and we have been informed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRESDEN, August 4.—Early on Monday i morning last intelligence was received here that at a short distance from the city upwards of four hundred men had fallen victims to a terrifice colliery accident. At first it was hoped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Braidwood Dispatch of Saturday last has a descriptive report upon the quartz reefs in the Braidwood district. It says:— The Mosquito line of reef, on the Little River, upon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Wedncsduy, 28th July, an explosion of fire-damp, which has resulted in the loss of fifth-eight lives—and the number will probably be increased —took place in the south-west Lancashire coal-field, about eight, miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following sew Emulations, nude in pursuance of the GoldFields Act of 1866, having been approved of by his Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive council, were published in a Supplement to the Government Gas[?] of 24th…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Wednesday morning, July 21st, an explosion of fir damp, which has resulted in the loss of 58 lives, took p'[?] about eight miles from Wigan. The [?] of the accident was the Queen Pit of Messrs. Evans…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TRUNKEY CREEK.—The correspondent of the Bathurst Free Press writes:—The intelligence from these diggings is most encouraging. In Wilson's and Cromie's claims the richness of the stone increases with the sinking. Wilson's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →QUARTZ mining is exciting more and more attention in the colony every day, and reefs are being discovered and opened up in everydirection—south, west, and north. Even since our last summary s[?]me rich reefs have been opened…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The yield of gold, as tested by the receipts of gold per escort for the month of September, is very satisfactory, exhibiting a net increase of 958 [?] on the corresponding period of 1868, the quantity received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRESDEN, August 4.— Early on Monday morning last intelligence received here that at a short distance from the city upwards of four hundred men had fallen victims to a terrific colliery accident. At first it was hoped…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The regular correspondent of the Braidwood Dispatch in making his weekly report upon the Araluen Valley in last Saturday's issue of that journal, says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On Wednesday, 28th July, an explosion of fire-damp, which has resulted in the loss of fifty-eight lives—and the number will probably be increased — took place in the south-west Lancashire coal-field, about eight miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE JUNER REETS.—A few days since (says the Wagga Wagga Express) a splendid cake of gold, weighing 150 oz., from the claim of Messrs. Brown and Bergin, of Junee, was brought into tins town, and safely deposited in the…
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