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651 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 33
The Western Mail publishes the following telegram dated Beaufort, Thursday night.—This evening rumours spread around the neighbourhood that an explosion had occurred at No. 1 Pit, Victoria, and…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →"As soon as Dick went outside there was a regular yell of laughter from Dick and his mates, and some others of tie same kidney, who were standing round the door of the grog-shop. Like other fools I…
Continued on Trove, page 410 →GULGONG.—The Guardian, of the 27th, reports that the new leads opened last week, viz., the Victoria and Sunbeam, have been the principal attractions during the week to miners on the look out for a claim, the latter being the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The heavy rains which fell in the various mining districts during the last week prevented work on many of the fields, from which we usually obtain reports…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEING on a visit at Araluen, and hearing so many favourable and interesting accounts of the above claim, I felt very anxious to go and have a look at it, and as some of the information will be of interest to…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →TAKEN as a whole, the news from the gold-fields generally is most encouraging. Only in the case of Araluen is there any cause for regret. That unfortunate valley has again been inundated by the rains…
Continued on Trove, page 431 →THE news from the various mining districts is highly gratifying, and the reports show, in many cases, that the character of the diggings is every day becoming more substantial and reliable…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →IT is well known that there is no single acid which will dissolve gold, but that this metal is readily soluble in a mixture in the proper proportions of nitric and muriatic acids. This mixture has long been known as…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The journals of the mining districts are making a special feature of the steadily increasing richness of the quartz reefs of this section of Australia. We cannot wonder at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ATTENTION has been repeatedly directed to the desirability of bringing into general operation some cheap and inexpensive method of reducing the lower grades of gold and silver that abound in various districts of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →So fierce was the downward blow struck by Dick that the sharp blade of the bowie knife went through, bed clothes and mattress, and was buried in the boards upon which the latter rested, the body lying below…
Continued on Trove, page 441 →OUR readers (says the "Western Examinor) must be aware that for some time past a party of miners have been prospecting in the neighbourhood of Four-mile Creek, eighteen miles from Orange. This creek runs from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OUR readers (says the Western Examiner) must be aware that for some time past a party of miners have been prospecting in the neighbourhood of Four-mile Creek, eighteen miles from Orange. This creek runs from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GULGONG.—The Guardian, in its latest weekly report, says:—Consequent on the races there has been very little work done during the week in the claims on gold, so that except the hoisting of the red flag by the prospectors on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE news from Mis various mining districts continues to be satisfactory. Consequent on the races there has, during the week, been very little work done at Gulgong, says the local paper, in the claims on gold, so that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ATTENTION has been repeatedly directed to the desirability of bringing into general operation some cheap and inexpensive method of reducing the lower grades of gold and silver that abound in various districts of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I DO not think your readers, either in Sydney or the country, have the remotest idea of what Gulgong is at present; for, though knowing somewhat of rushes, I was myself quite astonished when I arrived on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →With reference to the reported rich discovery of gold deposits near Orange the Western Examiner has the following:— Our readers must be aware that for some time…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE news from the various mining districts continues to be satisfactory. Consequent on the races there has, during the week, been very little work done at Gulgong, says the local paper, in the claims on gold, so that…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →SIR,—In reply to certain emeries requesting to know through your weekly journal the best method of working ground, &c., where auriferous washdirt ranges from 18 to 24 feet in thickness from the bed rock, together…
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