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651 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 33
MAJOR'S CREEK,—It is stated in the Braidwood Dispatch of Saturday that numbers of people have left here for other gold-fields, some of whom state in their letters that things are as bad there as here. Without water this i a poor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Carcoar correspondent of the Bathurst Free Press furnishes the following:—The Wood-Flat nuggets of gold are creating quite a sensation, and will cause a great rush to that place, as there is no doubt but that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE old Seven Mile lead may now be said to be used up, if one may judge from its desertion by miners, who have, save in a few instances, failed to make their holdings pay even fair wages. The ground which formed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SINCE I was here last, the progress of the gold-field and of the township of Gulgong is not less marked than heretofore. Building after building springs up daily with almost magical rapidity of completion…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE new frontage regulations, which were intended to set everything apeace upon Gulgong, for which locality they were expressly intended, have been received there, and have caused no small amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 875 →The Amended Gold Fields' Regulations framed as they were, by Mr. J. B. Wilson, to assist in the full development of the Gulgong field, have there met with the greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining matters at Junee have, for some time past, own exceedingly dull, but are, says the correspondent of the Wagga Wagga Express, now beginning to look up again. Messrs. Wallet and Co. have been making…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →RUGGY turned pale when he heard the announcement of his captors' determination. He knew too well the rough and ready justice which was dealt out by those into whose hands he had fallen; and was quite well…
Continued on Trove, page 890 →THE old Seven Mile lead may now be said to be used up, if one may judge from its desertion by miners, who have, save in a few instances, failed to make their holdings pay even fair wages. The ground which formed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—I perceive, upon perusing your Clarence River correspondent's letter, an intimation that coal has been found at Rocky Mouth in that locality. Now, I beg to inform your correspondent and others interested therein, that the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →A PETITION, signed by some 3500 miners, besides other residents at Gulgong, asking for repeal of some of the clauses in the new Regulations, and respectfully suggesting others, was, on Saturday last, presented to his Excellency…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ROCKY RIVER.—By the correspondence of the Armidale Express we are informed that on the Sons of Temperance lead there is as near an approximation to working continuously as human nature is capable of. In three of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Saturday last Walter Church, Esq., M.L.A. for the Western Gold-fields, presented to his Excellency Earl Belmore a petition, adopted at a public meeting, and certified to have been signed by 3650…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE labours of the committee appointed by the public meeting of miners at Gulgong hare culminated in a petition to the Governor, presented last week by Mr. W. Church. The objections to the regulations have…
Continued on Trove, page 906 →A PETITION, signed by some 3500 miners, besides other residents at Gulgong, asking for repeal of some of the clauses in the new Regulations, and respectfully suggesting others, was, on Saturday last, presented to his Excellency…
Continued on Trove, page 906 →KROHMANN and Co, are still getting wonderfully rich stone at Hawkin's Hill; as is also the adjoining claim (Boyers, Holtermann and Co). In the latter the new vein to the west is said to be very rich. Mr. Brown is…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE gold miners are a most undemonstrative set of men. They never cry out about imaginary wrongs. They seldom make themselves heard even when they have real…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the close of the topographical notice of Rockley, which appeared in your issue of the 22nd July last, allusion is made to the new copper mines at Gow Flat, situated nearly midway between Bathurst and Rockley…
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