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651 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 33
SEBASTOPOL.—The correspondent of the Wagga Wagga Express writes on the 21st:—Since Christmas things have been pretty quiet here, the miners for the most part having been steadily engaged in working their claims. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE development of this gold-field during the past fortnight is, on the whole, very satisfactory, and if a resident commissioner were here the progress would have been more marked. The Black Lead is, of course,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE population at the Forest Roofs, according to the correspondence of the Western Examiner, is steadily increasing, and the place generally looks far more prosperous than it did some two months ago. This…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →SERASTOPOL.--The correspondent of the Wagga Wagga Express writes on the 21st:--Since Christmas things have been pretty quiet here, the miners for the most part having been steadily engaged in working their claims. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The sixteenth half-yearly meeting of the Peak Downs Copper-mining Company was held on Monday, Mr. Benjamin Buchanan in the chair. The directors in their report stated that the mine continues to produce large…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →THIS is the title of a little book published some three years ago in Melbourne, but as it is hardly known in this colony, a short review of the topics, on which it treats, may be of interest to those connected with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →EMU CREEK.—The Mining Record's report is as under:— A [?]eral improvement in the rooting property ot this dis[?] warrants a further degree of confidence in the stability [?] permanence of our gold field. The fact that reports of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THIS morning we were shown eight specimens of gold in quartz, taken form the claim of Mr. James Brown, Hawkin's Hill. Tambaroora. To say that they are wonderfully rich would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS is the title of a little book published, some three years ago in Melbourne, but as it is hardly known in this colony, a short review of the topics, on which it treats, may be of interest to those connected with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No. 11 North Black Lead struck gold, yielding 4dwt per dish, three-feet wash-dirt. Depth 130 feet. Great activity prevails on this gold-field. Business allotments are selling high…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY morning we were shown eight specimens of gold in quartz, taken from the claim of Mr. James Brown, Hawkins's Hill, Tambaroora. To say that they are, wonderfully rich would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No. 11 North Black Lead struck gold, yielding 4dwt per dish, three feet wash-dirt. Depth 130 feet. Great activity prevails on this gold-field. Business allotments are selling high…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AMONG grumblers as well as good judges of the times the remark is of daily occurrence, that what we now want to give a return of prosperity is a good gold discovery—a field which would give lucrative employment…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE following is an abstract of a report on the various diggings of the colony, the first issued since the discovery of gold in South Australia, is printed in the Adelaide Observer, on its being furnished to the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The reefs at Mittagong are still being steadily worked, and, if machinery were on the ground, population, there is no doubt, would rapidly increase. But as there at present exists no means of crushing the stone…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →No. 11 North Black Lead struck gold, yielding 4dwt per dish, three feet wash-dirt. Depth 130 feet. Great activity prevails on this gold-field. [?]Business allotments are selling high…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →EMU CREEK.--The Mining Record's repot is as under:--A general improvement in the reefing property of this district warrants a further degree of confidence in the stability and permanence of our gold field. The fact that reports of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ON TUESDAY morning we were shown eight specimens of gold in quartz, taken from the claim of Mr. James Brown, Hawkins's Hill, Tambaroora. To say that they are wonderfully rich would…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE are just on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the gold discovery. On the 12th of February, 1851, a colonist of Now South Wales, just returned from the mines of California, not with a fortune in his pocket,…
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