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299 articles are tagged with Ophir Diggings. (Note: A search of the full text of articles for Ophir Diggings finds 2434 articles)

  • LATEST NEWS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Orange Goldfields Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 5 July 1851, page 2
    News 885 words

    THE following appeared in our Country Edition of last Monday. The Souvenir, arrived on Saturday last, brings us Sydney papers to the 21st June, being two days ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Bathurst Free Press, June 18.) [ tagged as 1851 EDWARDS George Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 25 June 1851, page 4
    News 2532 words

    The following particulars with respect to the land of Ophir have been communicated to us by a gentleman of undoubted veracity, and whose opportunities of acquiring information are ...
  • IMPOUNDINGS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 12 July 1851, page 2
    News 1852 words

    At East Maitland, on the 10th July, 1851, by Mr. John Reid, a tenant on the Berry Park estate—One red strawberry bullock, cocked horns, like an illegible brand near rump, like ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Bathurst Free Press, July 9.) OPHIR. Ophir, 4th July, 1851. [ tagged as Havilah Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 16 July 1851, page 4
    News 2785 words

    Since my last communication to you of the 2nd instant, the neighbourhood of the Ophir Diggings has assumed a very different aspect to what it did a week prior to that time. A great ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. MAITLAND NEWS FROM THE DIGGINGS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 9 August 1851, page 4
    News 4329 words

    A few persons have returned to Maitland from the diggings this week, and a few letters have been received from persons at the diggings. The news sent down is of the same encouraging ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Bathurst Free Press, July 30.) OPHIR. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 6 August 1851, page 4
    News 2981 words

    The intelligence from this quarter continues to be pretty much of the same character. The Summerhill Creek continues high, but is something lower than of late. With a continuance of ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. MAITLAND NEWS FROM THE DIGGINGS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 2 August 1851, page 4
    News 3548 words

    Some additional parties having returned from the diggings to Maitland, and some letters having been received in town from parties at the diggings, we have obtained the following ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Herald, August 18.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 20 August 1851, page 2
    News 1536 words

    There was no particular news from the gold fields on Saturday. Several persons have arrived in town, bringing with them from fifty to seventy ounces of gold. Private letters state that gold ...
  • COLONIAL EXTRACTS. GROWN LANDS BEYOND THE SETTLED DISTRICTS. T[?]RS FOR RUNS. (From the Government Gazette[?]) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 30 August 1851, page 4
    News 1907 words

    COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, 12th August, 1851—It is hereby no[?]ed, for general in[?] tion, that it has been deemed advisable to sub[?]itute the amended forms, (hereto annexed), of ...
  • Classified Advertising [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Sofala Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 20 September 1851Supplement: Supplement to Maitland Mercury, page 1
    Advertising 2946 words

  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Herald, Sept. 25.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 27 September 1851, page 3
    News 1991 words

    The following items of news, received by express, will be interesting to our readers. The conveyance, which will arrive at the Colonial Treasury at eleven o'clock this morning, carries ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. MAITLAND NEWS FROM THE DIGGINGS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields World's End Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 4 October 1851, page 1
    News 1240 words

    Several parties have returned to Maitland from the diggings within the last few days, most of them having brought some gold or its value with them, and several considerable amounts, ...
  • THE REVOCATION OF THE ORDER IN COUNCIL. [ tagged as Louisa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 11 October 1851, page 3
    News 1320 words

    THE Herald publishes Sir Charles Fitz Roy's despatch, accompanying the Message of the Legislative Council on the subject of Transportation, and also Lord Grey's promise that the Order in ...
  • Colonial News. VICTORIA. [ tagged as Ballarat Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 22 October 1851, page 3
    News 3122 words

    We are in receipt of Melbourne papers to the 10th instant. The gold diggings were still the absorbing topic. The suspicion was evidently extending ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Herald, November 27.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 29 November 1851, page 3
    News 487 words

    Our express arrived this morning, bringing letters from our correspondents at the Turon and Ophir. At the latter place the prospects of the diggers appear to be improving. The ...
  • PRODUCE CIRCULAR. (From the Herald, Dec. 13.) [ tagged as Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 17 December 1851, page 4
    News 3629 words

    Although accounts have been received from Great Britain of the arrival there of the intelligence of our gold discoveries, and a move in the English wool market appearing most ...
  • MAITLAND MERCURY. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1851. ARRIVAL OF OUR GOLD NEWS IN ENGLAND—STEAM COMMUNICATION. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 31 December 1851, page 2
    News 1230 words

    BY way of Port Phillip we have ascertained that our gold discoveries were made public in England in the first week in September. The news had ...
  • STEAM WITH ENGLAND. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 11 February 1852, page 2
    News 3318 words

    The following extract from a private letter received per Joseph Somes, from Mr. De Salis, will inform our readers of the present position of the steam question—which, so far as the ...
  • PRODUCE CIRCULAR, &C. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 11 February 1852, page 4
    News 4160 words

    A large quantity of wool has found its way to market this week, and which has principally been disposed of either by auction or private sale, the rate of exchange deterring the ...
  • ENGLISH. THE GOLD-FIELDS OF AUSTRALIA. (From the Times, November 19.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 6 March 1852, page 3
    News 1475 words

    THE latest accounts from Australia prove that the [?]nticipations entertained as to the productiveness of the gold fields of New South Wales are in no respect exaggerated. To describe the state of ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. OPHIR. (From the Bathurst Free Press, March 6.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 10 March 1852, page 3
    News 1355 words

    The diggings out here are proceeding much as usual, and a few straggling parties continue to do well. A large party of newly arrived Californians, who appear to be quite up to their ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Bathurst Free Press, March 20.) DIRT HOLE CREEK. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 27 March 1852, page 3
    News 3026 words

    We have intelligence from the Dirt Hole Creek and Stockyard diggings, from which we select the following particulars. Water is becoming so very scarce hundreds will shortly be ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE MEROO. (From our Correspondent.) Hunter's Point, Devil's Hole Creek, March 28, 1852. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 7 April 1852, page 2
    News 2865 words

    I have little to commmunicate to you this time, on account of the generality of the diggers being busily engaged in bailing the water out of their claims, and digging drains to carry the ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 14 April 1852, page 2
    News 1061 words

    WE have Sydney news to the 1st instant. IT will be evident, says Lloyd's Gold Circular of 25th ult., from the small quantity of gold received this week that something has happened either to our mines or our ...
  • THE MINT AND THE GOLD OF AMERICA. (From the Sydney Empire.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 28 April 1852, page 4
    News 4072 words

    Below will be found a lengthy extract from the last annual report of the treasury department of the United States, being the entire division of this official document on the present ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 19 May 1852, page 2
    News 991 words

    WE have intelligence from Sydney by the Shamrock to the 1st instant. A continued demand for exportation gives more than sufficient occupation to our trading community. Labour ...
  • LATEST NEWS. [ tagged as Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Tuesday 15 June 1852Supplement: Supplement to the "Moreton Bay Courier", page 1
    News 2135 words

    THE overland mail arrived on Sunday, without bringing our expected files from Maitland, which should have contained Sydney news to the beginning of June. ...
  • DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 26 June 1852, page 2
    News 1830 words

    THE OVERLAND MAIL.—This standing nuisance is again at fault. We learn from Drayton that two mails from Sydney, and one from Maitland, were still deficient. ...
  • Sydney News. PRODUCE CIRCULAR AND MARKETS. (From the S. M. Herald, July 10.) [ tagged as Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 14 July 1852, page 4
    News 2114 words

    There is no new feature to report in produce, with the exception of a depression in the price of hides, consequent upon the lower rates realized in the English market. ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. TURON. (From the Empire.) Oakey Creek, 28th July. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 7 August 1852, page 2
    News 1898 words

    The Turon at present is very dull of news, the only remunerative place being Golden Point; as for the other parts ot the river, I can communicate nothing that would be interesting to ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. EXPORTS OF AUSTRALIAN GOLD. (From the Herald, Sept. 18.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 22 September 1852, page 4
    News 1784 words

    The following quantities of Australian gold have been shipped for London by the barque Anna Mary, Captain Stevens, which sailed yesterday; by the Phænician, Captain Talbot, ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the Herald, Oct 2.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 6 October 1852, page 3
    News 3660 words

    SOFALA, SEPTEMBER 27.—During the past week we have had very unsettled weather; one day we would be cheered by the appearance of a change for the better, but the next would ...
  • NEW ENGLAND.—ITS PASTORAL CONDITION AND AGRICULTURAL CAPABILITIES. (From a Correspondent of the Empire.) No. 2. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 17 November 1852, page 4
    News 2504 words

    The time draws nigh when this once la[?]ded pastoral district will cease to rear or maintain the valuable sheep with profit. Strong symptoms of this coming event are unmistakeably ...
  • Sydney News. AUSTRALIAN COTTON. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 20 November 1852, page 4
    News 2790 words

    The following have been handed to us for publication:- London, July 30th, 1852. Messrs. Rositer and Lazarus, Sydney. ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald.) PUBLIC MEETING ON THE GOLD FIELDS MANAGEMENT BILL. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 26 January 1853, page 4
    News 4036 words

    On the 15th January the adjourned public meeting of the Turon diggers took place at Sofala, to consider the provisions of the New Gold Fields Management Bill. A platform had ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 16 February 1853, page 4
    News 1306 words

    The special reporter of the Sydney Morning Herald has transmitted full details of the further proceedings of the diggers at the Turon relative to the putting in force of the new ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 19 February 1853, page 4
    News 4166 words

    The special reporter of the Sydney Morning Herald, under date Sofala, February 10, forwards a copy of the petition to the Governor-General agreed on by the committee appointed ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 19 July 1851, page 2
    News 817 words

    BY the arrival of the "Mercury" from Sydney, we have news to the 5th instant. From the tenor of letters recently received from the T[?]ron diggings, it appears that wash any where gold ...
  • Classified Advertising [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 23 August 1851, page 3
    Advertising 1126 words

  • HAWKESBURY RACES. (Abridged from Bell's Life, April 30.) FIRST DAY, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27. FIRST RACE—The St. Leger Stakes of £40 for all three-year olds; one mile and a distance. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 4 May 1853, page 4
    News 3010 words

    Mr. Wm. Hall's Jenny Lind (Dunn)...... 1 Mr. M'Gowan's b. g. Huntsman.......... 2 Mr. S. Holmes' b. h. Revenge............ 3 Mr. T. Roberts' r. f Fanny Davis......... 0 ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the Bathurst Free Press, May 7.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 14 May 1853, page 4
    News 1401 words

    Various rumours have been afloat during the week, respecting some rich dry diggings said to have been discovered about 30 miles from Sofala, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Jew's Creek. ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TUROX. (From the Bathurst Free Press, Jan. 28.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 4 February 1854, page 4
    News 518 words

    The important discovery of a prolific vein o[?] gold at Tambaroora has and is continuing to attract considerable numbers of our population to that quarter. The reports thence are highly ...
  • NEW SOUTH WALES. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Wednesday 5 May 1858, page 4
    News 2425 words

    WE have Sydney papers to the 29th ultimo. Mr. Allen Lucas of the Hunter, in a letter to the Empire on the subject of ...
  • THE Moreton Bap Courier. SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1851. LATEST NEWS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 12 July 1851, page 2
    News 717 words

    THE Eagle having arrived at a late hour last night, we are enabled, by means of such newspapers and oral information as we could obtain, to present the following ...
  • NEWS FROM THE DIGGINGS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 19 July 1851, page 2
    News 1018 words

    We have seen members of several of the parties who have visited and returned from the gold diggings, and have learnt from them the following particulars. ...
  • LAND SALES. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 26 July 1851, page 3
    Detailed lists, results, guides 2455 words

  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the Bathurst Free Press, Feb. 19.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 26 February 1853, page 4
    News 3493 words

    The great bulk of the population have left for the Ovens or the other Victoria diggings, so that as may be expected there is little to be said about mining operations. The Lower Turon is almost ...
  • Council Paper. WESTERN GOLD FIELDS. Letter from Mr. Commissioner Hargraves to the Colonial Secretary. Sydney, 10th April, 1853. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 18 May 1853, page 2
    News 832 words

    SIR—I have the honor to report to you, for the information of his Excellency the Governor General, the result of the explorations and observations I have recently made on the ...
  • HINTS TO SEARCHERS FOR AND WORKERS OF GOLD. (From the Rev. W. B. Clarke's pamphlet.) [ tagged as Gold Treatment Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 16 July 1851, page 4
    News 1618 words

    Collecting then, the data from the preceding statements, it appears that gold is generally found in quartz veins traversing schistose rocks of a certain class; and it may be inferred, that ...
  • LAND SALE. [ tagged as Gold Treatment Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Monday 28 July 1851Supplement: Supplement to the "Moreton Bay Courier.", page 1
    News 3074 words

    IN our notice of the forthcoming land sales, in Saturday's Courier, we omitted the following, which will take place at the Police Office, Brisbane, at l1 o'clock, A.M., of Thursday, the 14th of ...
  • MAITLAND MERCURY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1851. THE GOLD FIELD. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 28 May 1851, page 2
    News 3492 words

    SINCE our last the government have issued a series of regulations under which licenses to dig for gold in the county of Bathurst are to be granted. ...
  • Classified Advertising [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 31 May 1851, page 3
    Advertising 3151 words

  • Sydney News. (From our Correspondent.) Sydney, Thursday Evening. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 31 May 1851, page 2
    News 420 words

    INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS.—In the estate of Laurence Burns, a single meeting was held[?] but no claims were proved.—In the several estates of Acton Sillitoe and Joseph Whittaker, a ...
  • COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 31 May 1851, page 2
    News 2109 words

    Trade this week has been very brisk at the stores, as numbers of families are laying in consumable articles in dread of the effect of speculation on such goods. Up to the end of last ...
  • THE HOMEBUSH RACES. (From the Berald, May 29.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 31 May 1851, page 3
    News 1993 words

    The annual meet of the Metropolitan Races commenced yesterday, and we are happy to say it was barbingered by as fine an autumn day as sportsmen could desire. ...
  • MAITLAND MERCURY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1851. ENGLISH NEWS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 4 June 1851, page 2
    News 507 words

    AT last we have a direct arrival from home. The Windsor arrived on Friday last, bringing English news to the 21st February. On Saturday the ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Bathurst Free Press, May 28.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 4 June 1851, page 1
    News 726 words

    The great desideratum would be to arrive at an average result of the earnings of the whole of the diggers as nearly as possible. But as the organ of caution appears to be tolerably well ...
  • ANOTHER NEW STEAMER. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 11 June 1851, page 2
    News 2534 words

    THE CLARENCE RIVER.—We have been furnished by the Managing Committee of the Clarence River Steam Navigation Company, with the following particulars of their new steam ...
  • Classified Advertising [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 7 June 1851, page 3
    Advertising 2206 words

  • COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 14 June 1851, page 2
    News 1266 words

    Trade is dull, with the exception, of the continued supplies furnished to intending parties of gold diggers. The speculative rise in articles of common consumption has stopped, and prices ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Bathurst Press, June 11.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 18 June 1851, page 4
    News 2630 words

    As we have several times prognosticated, the reckless inconsideratences of many of tbe Sydney people is now followed by its inevitable penalty. Numbers are daily returning from the mines ...
  • IMPOUNDINGS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 18 June 1851, page 2
    News 1994 words

    At the East Maitland pound, on the 14th of June, 1851, by Mr. Robert Wisdom, from Duckenfield Park—One bay colt, black mane and tail, near hind fetlock white, a few white hairs in ...
  • Sydney News. PRODUCE CIRCULARS. (From the S. M. Herald, June 14.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 18 June 1851, page 4
    News 4154 words

    The deliveries of tallow continue to be more extensive than was anticipated a few months ago; our supplies are chiefly from the northern districts, where the squatters have a greater ...
  • SHIPPING NEWS. PORT OF HOBART TOWN. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 18 June 1851, page 2
    Detailed lists, results, guides 1084 words

  • COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 21 June 1851, page 2
    News 3041 words

    Trade continues to be principally confined to furnishing supplies to intending gold diggers. The prices of most articles of common consumption have again receded from the speculative ...
  • Sydney News. (From our Correspondent.) Sydney, Wednesday Evening. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 21 June 1851, page 2
    News 454 words

    The only business at the Insolvent Court today was an adjourned certificate meeting in the estate of Acton Sillitoe; two witnesses were examined, and the meeting was further ...
  • THE BATHURST GOLD FIELD. From the Bathurst Free Press, June 4. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 21 June 1851, page 2
    News 1047 words

    SEVERAL valuable samples of the precious metal weie purchased yesterday, the principal buyers being Messrs. Austin, Dunsford, Forbes, Solomon and Co., and Burnside. Dr. Machattie is also ...
  • California. (From the Empire, June 19.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 25 June 1851, page 2
    News 1552 words

    The ship Margaret arrived yesterday, from San Francisco the 31st March. We are indebted to Mr. Rickards for papers up to the end of March, from which we gather the following ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. MAITLAND NEWS FROM THE DIGGINGS. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 23 August 1851, page 1
    News 3073 words

    The following letter has been received by Mrs. Honeysett, of Maitland, from Mr. Honeysett, who is now at the Turon, and had, at the date of his letter, recently arrived there from Summer ...
  • THE BATHURST DIGGINGS. (From the Empire, June 10.) [ tagged as Bathurst Goldfields Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 25 June 1851, page 2
    News 2086 words

    The accounts from the Gold Mines this morning disclose nothing of [?]sual interest. A considerable quantity of gold has arrived by the mail. The latest date before as (last Friday) from the Co[?]ish ...
  • Hunter River District News. [FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.] TAMWORTH. [ tagged as Bathurst Goldfields Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 23 July 1851, page 2
    News 1267 words

    We have had a good deal of rain here; the river has been very high this last fortnight, and still continues running rapidly. We have every prospect of a good spring. The winter has not ...
  • COLONIAL EXTRACTS. [ tagged as Bell's Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 17 April 1852, page 3
    Detailed lists, results, guides 1377 words

  • DARING PIRACY. (From the Morning Herald.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Monday 19 April 1852Supplement: Supplement to the "Moreton Bay Courier", page 1
    News 1888 words

    WE mentioned in our shipping news yesterday, that the ship Nelson had been robbed of 8000 ounces of gold. We have since ascertained the following particulars:—The Nelson, Captain ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. GOLD NEWS OF THE WEEK. (From the Empire, May 1.) [ tagged as Bendoc River Goldfields Delegate River Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 5 May 1852, page 4
    News 1406 words

    The gold brought in during the past week amounts to 6,704 ozs. 1[?] dwts. 21 grs. Of this 5,552 ozs. 6 dwts. 21 grs. came down by escort, and 1152 ozs. 5 dwts. by mail. It is evident ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Gilmandyke Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 12 May 1852, page 4
    News 748 words

    WE have no instances of extraordinary success at our mines to report this week. The work is going on as usual, and some parties are making rapid fortunes, while others are not ...
  • Classified Advertising [ tagged as Louisa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Sofala Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 10 January 1852, page 3
    Advertising 2243 words

  • NEWS BY THE OVERLAND MAIL[?] [ tagged as foreign news Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings overland news Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 12 June 1852, page 4
    News 2484 words

    BY the overland mail from Sydney we have received copies of the Maitland Mercury to the 26th May, containing Sydney news to the 22nd of that month, and intelligence from other ports ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Bathurst Free Press, June 21.) GENERAL NEWS. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Fitzgerald's' Valley Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 28 June 1851, page 4
    News 4074 words

    The gold procured by Gorringe, the Carcoar blacksmith, and his party, was purchased on Wednesday last by Messrs. Solomon & Co., for £280 17s. Its weight was 94 ozs. 5 dwts., and ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the S. M. Herald[?] March 12.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 19 March 1853, page 2
    News 661 words

    SOFALA, MARCH 11.—The early part of this month has passed off in perfect quiet; prior to the eighth mostly all the diggers had taken out their licenses, hoping that when the Legislature ...
  • THE Moreton Bay Courier. SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1852. LATEST NEWS. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 31 July 1852, page 2
    News 1369 words

    BY the arrival of the Zone, after an excellent run from Sydney, we are furnished with Sydney papers of Saturday last, being a day later than the Eagle's mail. ...
  • LATEST NEWS. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Tuesday 23 March 1852Supplement: Supplement to the "Moreton Bay Courier", page 1
    News 270 words

    BY the Eagle we have papers from Sydney to the 16th, Melbourne to the 9th, and Auckland to the 3rd instant. There was no later news from Europe, ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 14 January 1852, page 2
    News 379 words

    WE have news to the 27th December. A very numerous and respectable attendance witnessed the examination of the pupils connected with the national schools of the city, amongst whom were ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Herald.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Louisa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 13 December 1851, page 3
    News 1830 words

    THURSDAY, 3 A M.—By express we learn that the gold conveyance arrived at Penrith last night at nine o'clock. The progress of the diggers is greatly impeded at the Turon by the ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the Empire) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 13 December 1851, page 4
    News 792 words

    TURON, DEC. 6.—The tent of Mr. Robert Forbes, the gold buyer, was cut into last night, but owing to some of the inside party sleeping in Bristol fashion, with one eye open, the thieves ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Herald, August 30.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Lawson's Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields World's End Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 3 September 1851, page 4
    News 1184 words

    YESTERDAY'S GOLD.—The arrivals of gold yesterday were 217 lbs. by the government chest, and about 50 lbs. by the mail; the principal consignees by the latter being Mr. ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Bathurst Free Press, Aug. 9.) [ tagged as Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 16 August 1851, page 4
    News 2032 words

    Although very little is said about Ophir at the present, we are informed by several respectable people that the diggers are generally doing well. The allurements of the Turon have ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Gold Receipts Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 21 January 1852, page 3
    News 1126 words

    WE have news from'Sydney to the 10th instant. Lloyd's Gold Circular of that date says:—We have very little worth noticing this week in the shape of intelligence from our Mines. Several gentlemen inform us ...
  • WESTERN GOLD FIELDS. Report from the Gold Commissioner for the Western Districts to the Chief Gold Commissioner, on the prospects of the Western Gold Fields. Gold Commissioner's Office, Bathurst, July 8, 1852. [ tagged as Louisa Creek Diggings Macquarie River Goldfields Ophir Diggings Tambaroora Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 31 July 1852, page 2
    News 909 words

    SIR—I have the honour to submit to you my report upon the gold fields of my district, the remarks on which are gathered from personal observation during my late visit to each field; ...
  • Sydney News. PRODUCE CIRCULAR. (From the S. M. Herald, June 7.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 11 June 1851, page 4
    News 3425 words

    The excitement which prevailed as to the gold fields of the west at the time of our last report has gradually subsided, and the speculative prices for many commodities no longer ...
  • MAITLAND MERCURY. SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1851. THE MINES.—THE WEEK'S NEWS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 14 June 1851, page 2
    News 1827 words

    THE news received from the mines during the past week is on the whole more favorable than that of the preceding week. Gold has been found in ...
  • MAITLAND MERCURY. SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1851. THE DIGGINGS.—NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 21 June 1851, page 2
    News 925 words

    THE most noticeable features of the week's news from the gold district are— the confirmation of the statement that gold had been found at the Turon—a ...
  • THE REVENUES AND THEIR APPROPRIATION FOR THE YEAR 1850. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 25 June 1851, page 2
    Detailed lists, results, guides 641 words

  • MAITLAND QUARTER SESSIONS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 25 June 1851, page 2
    News 1971 words

    The Quarter Sessions commence on Monday, the 7th July. The following is the list of persons committed for trial, up to the present time: ...
  • MAITLAND MERCURY. SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1851. LATER ENGLISH NEWS.—NO MINISTRY FORMED. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 28 June 1851, page 2
    News 958 words

    BY the Ann Mary, which reached Sydney on Wednesday, English news to the 5th March has been received. Up to that date a new Ministry had ...
  • THE Moreton Bay Courier. SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1851. LATEST NEWS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 28 June 1851, page 2
    News 2785 words

    CATTAIN SHOLL,, of the Toroa, has obligingly furnished us with Sydney papers to the 19th June, being five days later than the news in our Supplement of Thursday last. We commence our ...
  • SECOND EDITION. MONDAY, TWELVE 0'CLOCK. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 28 June 1851, page 2
    News 926 words

    THE Souvenir, arrived on Saturday, brings us Sydney papers to the 21st June, being two days later than the news in our impression of Saturday morning. ...
  • Classified Advertising [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 9 July 1851, page 3
    Advertising 2396 words

  • Classified Advertising [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 6 August 1851, page 3
    Advertising 2099 words

  • Hunter River District News. [FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.] MERRIWA. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 30 July 1851, page 2
    News 1318 words

    THE MAILS.—Considerable inconvenience has been experienced latterly by the irregularity of our postal communication. On Friday last the mailman left here with the mails intended for ...
  • Classified Advertising [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 9 August 1851, page 1
    Advertising 4308 words

  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 20 August 1851, page 3
    News 492 words

    INTELLIGENCE has reached, via Fort Phillip, to the 8th instant. The news respecting the gold continues of a cheering nature. New discoveries are talked of, ...
  • MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Special Correspondent of S.M.Herald, September [?].) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 27 September 1851, page 3
    News 692 words

    SINCE arriving in Sydney, I have heard many people, express great uneasiness at the numbers who are leaving and about to, leave for the mines, but they need not alarm themselves, for they may ...
  • ROYAL SOCIETY OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 11 October 1851, page 2
    News 828 words

    THE Monthly Meeting for October was held in the Museum on Wednesday evening last, at half-past seven o'clock. His Excellency Sir W. DENISON, President, took the chair. By eight ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Louisa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 18 October 1851, page 2
    News 1296 words

    BY the arrival of the Emma we have advices to the 4th instant. The gold circular and other commercial intelligence will be found in our market columns. We here give insertion to a ...
  • Legislative Council. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1851. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 25 October 1851, page 1
    News 7191 words

    The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter past three. INAUGURATION OF MEMBER. Thomas Icely, Esq., a non-elective member of ...
  • Sydney News. PRODUCE CIRCULAR. (From the Herald.) [ tagged as Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 26 November 1851, page 4
    News 1870 words

    Our auction on Thursday was the first public sale of the season at which any considerable quantity of the new clip has been brought forward. There was a large attendance of buyers, ...
  • English News. [FROM THE "S. M. HERALD," JAN. 2.] [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 7 January 1852, page 4
    News 6591 words

    We have been favoured by Messrs. Donaldson and Co. with a copy of the European Times of September 13. We give a few of the most interesting ...
  • NEW SOUTH WALES. [ tagged as Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News (WA : 1848-1864) Friday 12 March 1852, page 5
    News 958 words

    The arrival at Sydney of the American ship Nightingale is thus announced by the Sydney correspondent of a Melbourne contemporary:— ...
  • COLONIAL EXTRACT. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Taafe Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 20 March 1852, page 4
    News 1430 words

    MAITLAND CIRCUIT COURT. — This Court opened on Monday, the 1st instant before his Honour the Chief Justice. John Odell was indicted for stealing a mar, the porperty of ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. OPHIR. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 3 April 1852, page 4
    News 750 words

    MARCH 26.—Since the creek has lowered most of the machinery has been recovered, and will soon be in working trim, when it is to be hoped that Samuels and M'Intosh will show to ...
  • BRISBANE RIVER. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 24 April 1852, page 2
    News 2403 words

    A CORRESPONDET, dating from the Brisbane River 13th April, (the mail having been detained by the flood), has the following remarks:—Perhaps a more delightful season than the present it ...
  • Sydney News. SETTLERS' PRICE CURRENT, &C. WHOLESALE PRICES OF COLONIAL FARM AND DAIRY PRODUCE IN THE SYDNEY MARKET DURING THE PRESENT WEEK. [ tagged as Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 26 May 1852, page 4
    News 1460 words

    WHEAT varies as to quality, from 4s. 6d. to 6s. 3d. per bushel. FLOUR, at the mills, is quoted—fine £18, and seconds £16 per ton. ...
  • Legislative Council. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald.) TUESDAY, JUNE 8. [ tagged as Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 12 June 1852, page 2
    News 2346 words

    [For commencement of this day's proceedings, being the opening of the Council, see fourth page] The SPEAKER took tho chair, on the Council re-assembling, at three o'clock. ...
  • ENGLISH. GOLD. [From the Times, January 19.] [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 30 June 1852, page 3
    News 2373 words

    GOLD-HUNTING used to he thought the most disappointing of human pursuits. There appeared to be a law of Providence indicating that the best way to get riches was to work for them ...
  • NEWS BY THE "LAVINA." [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 3 July 1852, page 4
    News 3159 words

    BY the Lavina's mail we, on Tuesday last, received papers from Sydney to June 16th Bath[?]rst and Goulburn to the 12th, Melbourne to the 10th, Geelong to the 8th, and Hobart Town and ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Louisa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 31 July 1852, page 2
    News 671 words

    Meetings have been held at Newcastle and Singleton, at which it had been determined to support the new Steam Company now forming at Ma[?]tland. The floods at the Murrumbidgee appear to have been ...
  • LOCAL. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 10 July 1852, page 3
    News 3508 words

    THE NEW MINISTER ON TRANSPORTATION.—A large deputation of mercantile and other gentlemen connected with the Australian Colonies had an interview with the Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington, at the Colonial ...
  • SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.) ARRIVALS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 25 August 1852, page 2
    News 2532 words

    AUGUST 20.—Otago, schooner, 71 tons, Capt. Stevens, from Otago the 23rd July. Passengers—27 in the s[?]eerage. 20.—Proteus, whaling barque, 254 tons, ...
  • LECTURES ON GOLD.—MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL GEOLOGY. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 6 November 1852, page 4
    News 503 words

    At the suggestion of the council of the Society of Arts, it has been arranged to give at the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn-street, a course of lectures on gold, with a view, specially, to the ...
  • British Extracts. EMIGRATION FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM. (From the Leeds Mercury, Aug. 7.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 4 December 1852, page 4
    News 3614 words

    The twelfth general report of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, for the year 1851, has just been printed, and presented to both, houses of Parliament. The ...
  • LOCAL. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 8 December 1852, page 2
    News 4622 words

    ROYAL SOCIETY.—The December monthly meeting takes place this evening, at the Museum, Harrington-street. THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR arrived in town from ...
  • MAITLAND MERCURY. SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1853. THE PAST YEAR [ tagged as Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 1 January 1853, page 2
    News 1960 words

    HAS not been so productive of great changes in the condition of New South Wales as was anticipated at its commencement. Before the news of the ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. THE DIRT HOLE AND TAMBAROORA CREEK DIGGINGS. (From the Bathurst Free Press, May 22) [ tagged as Dirt Hole Creek Diggings Gilmandyke Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Tambaroora Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 29 May 1852, page 4
    News 3548 words

    From the latest accounts, we learn that matters are proceeding steadily at the Dirt Hole and Tambaroora Creek diggings. The population remains as nearly as possible stationary, and ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE MEROO AND LOUISA. (From our Correspondent.) [ tagged as Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings Tambaroora Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 15 December 1852, page 2
    News 2272 words

    MUDGEE, DEC. 8.—During the last week I visited several of the diggings about the Meroo and Louisa, and though there did not appear to be the same bustle and spirit that existed last ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELD. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 28 May 1851, page 4
    News 3985 words

    The Sydney papers continue to give a great quantity of news from the gold diggings, and information respecting them. We give below condensed and selected extracts from these ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Bathurst Free Press, May 24.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 31 May 1851, page 4
    News 5183 words

    From the variety and respectability of our sources of information, we can vouch for the correctness, as nearly as correctness can be arrived at, of the following details. ...
  • MAITLAND MERCURY. SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1851. STEAM COMMUNICATION—ADDITIONAL MILITARY. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 31 May 1851, page 2
    News 1074 words

    THE importance of having quick and regular communication established between the mother country and this colony has been greatly enhanced by ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Herald, June 3.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 7 June 1851, page 4
    News 3917 words

    Mr. J. Byrnes, M.C., and Mr. Oakes, M.C, returned to Parramatta on Thursday last, after a visit to the diggings, made expressly for the purpose of enquiry and examination. On ...
  • MAITLAND MERCURY. SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1851. EFFECT OF THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD ON IMMIGRATION. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 7 June 1851, page 2
    News 1289 words

    THE discovery of gold in this colony will—if the anticipations of Mr. Hargraves and Mr. Stutchbury be realised —in all probability completely change ...
  • MARKETS. HOBART TOWN MARKETS, 13TH JUNE. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 14 June 1851, page 2
    Detailed lists, results, guides 1320 words

  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Bathurst Free Press, June 25.) OPHIR. (From our Ophir Correspondent.) Ophir, Friday Evening, 20th June, 1851. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 2 July 1851, page 1
    News 1901 words

    The boisterous weather alluded to in my last has partially subsided, but the [?], [?] [?] [?] during the e[?]ly part of the week, has again risen ...
  • NEW SOUTH WALES. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 5 July 1851, page 2
    News 666 words

    WE have news direct from Sydney to the 19th June. Gold was still as plentiful as ever, and it was computed that there were about 3000 persons at the diggings. The "Herald" of 16th June ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the S. M. Herald, Aug. 8.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 13 August 1851, page 4
    News 1629 words

    Communications respecting the discoveries of gold near Mudgee and at the Moruya will be found in another column. The specimens sent down from the Moruya we have had tested, and ...
  • NEW SOUTH WALES VINEYARD ASSOCIATION. (Abridged from the Herald, June 29.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 5 July 1854, page 4
    News 2694 words

    The annual meeting of this society took place yesterday, at Mr. Mort's ro[?]ms, and was fully attended. Mr. W. Macarthur, the Pre[?]ident, took the chair. The annual report was read by ...
  • SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (Abridged from the Empire and Herald.) ARRIVALS. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 11 March 1854, page 2
    News 3291 words

    MARCH 6.—Hellespont, steamer, 334 tons, Captain R. F. Pockley, from Melbourne 2nd instant. Passengers—Mr. and two Misses Leopold, Mr. and Mrs. Somerville, Mr. and ...
  • ST. PAUL'S ISLAND. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 16 April 1853, page 2
    News 1796 words

    THE Sydney Morning Herald republishes, from the Mauritius Overland Commercial Gazette, the subjoined interesting information respecting the Island of St. Paul. The article in the Gazette ...
  • SYDNEY. THE STATE OF OUR MARKETS. (From the Sydney Herald, 2nd April.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 13 April 1853, page 2
    News 1953 words

    AMONGST the many anomalies which are conspicuous in the present position of these colonies is the fact, that while immigration, copious as it is, does not keep pace with our demands ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Bathurst Free Press, June 28.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 9 July 1851, page 1
    News 2380 words

    From the best sources we learn that there are now about 500 people at the Turon diggings, and that the number is daily increasing. Those who go about their work with any degree of ...
  • Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 19 July 1851, page 2
    News 540 words

    SIR—Having been much questioned since my return from "Ophir," as to my success at the mines, I take the opportunity through the medium of your columns, to emphatically urge the ...
  • THE G[?]LD FIELDS. CAMPBELL'S CREEK DIGGINGS. (From [?]r Correspondent.) [ tagged as Campbell's Creek NSW Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 21 January 1852, page 2
    News 2045 words

    A few slight mis[?]aps, such as the failure of a hole here and a b[?]d hand, &c., affording me a leisure afternoon, I avail myself of the opportunity to give you [?] brief sketch of our ...
  • COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. [ tagged as Australian Goldfields History Ophir Diggings W T Trappitt ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 7 June 1851, page 2
    News 1990 words

    Trade is in a very unsettled state, little being doing except furnishing supplies to intended gold diggers, or forwarding goods to the diggings, a speculation considered by some very ...
  • GOLD CIRCULAR. (From the S. M. Herald, Sept. 6.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Fredericks Valley Creek Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields Wentworth Diggings World's End Diggings ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Monday 22 September 1851Supplement: Supplement to the "Moreton Bay Courier.", page 1
    News 689 words

    NOTWITHSTANDING the unfavourable state of the weather which continued at the mines up to the date of our latest advices, a considerable quantity of gold has reached town during the week. About ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. TURON. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Pyramul Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 17 March 1852, page 4
    News 2493 words

    UPPER WALLABY, MARCH 9.—The weather still continues fine, although on Sunday morning a little rain fell, but nothing to affect the river in the slightest degree. The holders of bed ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From Bell's Life, May 15.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Pyramul Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 19 May 1852, page 1
    News 1531 words

    The weather for the last few days has been very threatening, but nevertheless the bed claims are being worked steadily and turning out well, as you will see by the receipt of gold ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE MEROO. (From our Correspondent.) Meroo, Aug. 18. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Pyramul Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 25 August 1852, page 2
    News 1581 words

    There have been for some days continued rain, and on the 13th we had a fall of snow. The diggings keep going on, nevertheless, and some get well paid. ...
  • IMPOUNDINGS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Pyramul Creek Diggings Tambaroora Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 9 February 1853, page 2
    News 2261 words

    At West Maitland, from Tocal, on the 5th February, 1853—One poley bullock, red, star, white on shoulder and rump, belly, tail, and legs white; if branded not visible; one white ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the Bathurst Free Pree[?], Feb. 28.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Pyramul Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 3 March 1852, page 3
    News 1979 words

    At present the liveliest portion of the Turon is the race below Harbottle's store, the miners of which locality are now receiving the benefits of what by some was denominated a profitless ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Bathust Free Press, August 13.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 16 August 1851, page 2
    News 1399 words

    The latest intelligence from the Turon does not vary very materially from that given in our last. Constant arrivals are taking place from every point of the compass, and large numbers ...
  • Hunter River District News. [FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.] WOLLOMBI. ELECTION MEETING. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 27 August 1851, page 2
    News 805 words

    According to appointment, a meeting of the electors of the district was held in the Court-house, about two o'clock p.m., on Tuesday last, for the purpose of hearing from George Bowman, ...
  • ACCEPTED TENDERS FOR RUNS. (From the Government Gazette[?]) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Tuesday 23 March 1852Supplement: Supplement to the "Moreton Bay Courier", page 1
    News 3062 words

    IT is hereby notified, for general information, that the tenders of the undermentioned parties have been accepted for the runs of crown lands mentioned opposite their respective names. ...
  • LATE NEWS. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Sofala Diggings ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 28 February 1852, page 2
    News 2547 words

    BY the Lavina and Mary Stewart we have received Sydney papers to the 18th instant, and late dates from other colonies. The Havering from Plymouth had brought to ...
  • THE AUSTRALIAN OPHIR. (From the Examiner.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings William Branwhite CLARKE ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 18 February 1852, page 4
    News 2073 words

    WE have had a colony in Australia, the last discovered New World, for such it truly is, for sixty-four years, and notwithstanding this long experience we known very little of its mineral ...
  • LATEST FROM THE CAPE. (From the Empire, January 28.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 14 February 1852, page 3
    News 2868 words

    BY way of Adelaide, we have news from Cape Town to the 24th of October, and from the Frontier to the 18th of the same month. The Part Elizabeth Telegraph of Oct. 16th ...
  • COLONIAL EXTRACTS. MORETON BAY. (From the Sydney Morning Herald, Jan. [?]) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 24 January 1852, page 4
    News 1524 words

    From private letters, and Brisbane journals [?]o 10th inst., we find that the want of labour is now pressing in a very serious degree upon the land and stock holders throughout this important ...
  • LATE NEWS. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 10 January 1852, page 3
    News 1268 words

    BY the Eagle, we received papers from Sydney to the 1st of January, and from Victoria to the 23rd of December, together with late files from other colonies. ...
  • A PRACTICAL MINER ON THE [?]DISCOVERY OF MINERALS. To THE EDITOR OF THE WEST AUSTRALIAN. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Goldfields of Otago Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings William Branwhite CLARKE ]

    The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879-1954) Saturday 2 February 1884, page 3
    News 1640 words

    SIR.—A letter under the above heading appears in the West Australian of the 26th inst., in which the writer states that scientific geologists have never pointed out a place where miners ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Empire, May 29) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 31 May 1851, page 2
    News 515 words

    SECOND EDITION.—THURSDAY MORNING, 11 O'CLOCK.—The Bathurst Free Press of yesterday contains two letters from the mines, one dated "Ophir, May 24th," the other, "D[?]ggings, ...
  • NEW SOUTH WALES VINEYARD ASSOCIATION. (From the Herald, July 3.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 9 July 1851, page 4
    News 4468 words

    The half-yearly meeting of this Association was held yesterday, but owing to the inclement weather which has prevailed for some days past, few of the country members were able to attend. ...
  • Original Correspondence. A TRIP TO THE DIGGINGS. To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 19 July 1851, page 1
    News 1275 words

    SIR—As there are so many various opinions with regard to the proceeds of the Bathurst diggings, I beg to give you mine for the benefit of the public through the medium of your ...
  • MAITLAND MERCURY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1851. CALIFORNIA V. AUSTRALIA. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 23 July 1851, page 2
    News 3517 words

    THE recent fires in California—at San Francisco and Stockton—have led to a repetition, and in a more direct and offensive form, of the ...
  • Sydney News. (From our Correspondent.) Sydney, Thursday Evening. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 24 May 1851, page 2
    News 332 words

    INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS.—In the estate of Joseph Mather, a first meeting was held, at which claims amounting to £88 3s. 1d. were proved.—In the estate of Alexander Young, ...
  • LOCAL. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Monday 2 May 1853, page 3
    News 1530 words

    THE TASMANIAN CHURCH CHRONICLE will be issued with the Courier of to-morrow. THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE and for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign ...
  • LOCAL. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Thursday 5 May 1853, page 3
    News 2232 words

    FORAGE.—The fixed sum of £15,000, appropriated by the Imperial Act to ecclesiastical purposes, being insufficient for the payment of the forage allowance at the present high prices, the ...
  • LATEST EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE. RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IX TUSCANY. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News (WA : 1848-1864) Friday 13 May 1853, page 3
    News 3702 words

    —For some time past the English Jour ma[?] have contained remarks upon a religious persecution in T[?] where persons have been imprisoned and punished ...
  • BRITISH EXTRACTS. (From our files per New Orleans.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 14 May 1853, page 4
    News 4364 words

    THE prisoner Kirwan, convicted and sentenced to suffer death for the murder of his wife, in Ireland, has had his sentence commuted to transportation for life. The ...
  • ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Thursday 13 October 1853, page 3
    News 609 words

    ON Monday, Messrs. Grieve and Telbin presented to the public their new grand diorama, entitled, "The Route of the Ocean Mail viâ the Cape, India, and Australia," from sketches by Mr. J. Calvert, the ...
  • LATEST COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News (WA : 1848-1864) Friday 2 December 1853, page 2
    News 2593 words

    The brig Hamlet from Adelaide arrived on Monday last, bringing back several parties ...
  • SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (Abridged from the Empire and Herald.) ARRIVALS. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 22 March 1854, page 2
    News 4920 words

    MARCH 16.—Lallah Rookh, brig, 155 tons, Captain Gray, from Melbourne the 10th inst., in ballast. 10.—Golden Age (American s). 3000 tons, ...
  • Sydney News. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 17 March 1855Supplement: Supplement to the Maitland Mercury, page 2
    News 2380 words

    COAL.—THE NEWCASTLE COLA STAITHS.— With reference to our late articles on the coal fields of Newcastle, a correspondent has furnished us with the following remarks: ...
  • SUPREME COURT.—THURSDAY, APRIL 19. SITTINGS IN BANCO. (Before the Full Court.) SMITH AND ANOTHER v. BROWN AND OTHERS. (From the Empire, April 20.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 25 April 1855, page 2
    News 3643 words

    This was a motion for new trial of an action upon the sale of a ship, in which the defendants had obtained a verdict. The plaintiffs claimed the full price of the vessel (a barque called the ...
  • THE COURIER. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 1[?]. Stre[?] [?]t Prospere. SYDNEY. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Friday 18 July 1856, page 2
    News 2670 words

    Our advices by the Tasmania, which arrived last night, are to the 12th instant. We shall in the first place direct attention to the following article from the Herald:— ...
  • LATEST INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS. (From the S. M. Herald.) LACHLAN. Friday, 16th January, 6 p.m. [ tagged as Alhambra ship Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1861-1864) Saturday 24 January 1863, page 2
    News 702 words

    THE local Court talk of tendering their resignations as a body, the Government never having, since the establishment of the Court, acknowledged the receipt of one of their ...
  • The Courier. PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1868. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864-1933) Wednesday 22 July 1868, page 2
    News 5218 words

    THERE was a great deal of force in the remarks made by Alderman MURRAY at the meeting of the Municipal Council on Monday last, in support of his ...
  • TELEGRAPHIC. [AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAMS.] SYDNEY. August 15. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864-1933) Friday 16 August 1872, page 2
    News 643 words

    AT an influential meeting it was resolved to raise funds to represent the colony in the London Exhibition. Several firms have subscribed £100 each. ...
  • SOCIAL. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings People Ulladulla ]

    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864-1933) Friday 29 November 1872, page 2
    News 13621 words

    MERCHANTS and others are feeling the effect of telegraphic communication with the centres of commercial activity. They know the value at head-quarters of any commodity they may be ...
  • Sydney. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] October 30. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864-1933) Friday 31 October 1879, page 2
    News 2103 words

    The Transit Commissioners have summoned several prominent members of the Cabmen's Union for not having brought their cabs out during a space of twenty-four hours. At a ...
  • Intercolonial Mining in Brier. (Summarised from our Exchanges.) NEW SOUTH WALES. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864-1933) Saturday 15 November 1879, page 6
    News 3049 words

    The rush to Merool Creek has turned out a miserable hoax. Favorable reports continue to arrive from the new [?]lluvial diggings at Bongongolong creek. ...
  • INTERCOLONIAL. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, August 2. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864-1933) Friday 3 August 1883, page 5
    News 2073 words

    The Supreme Court in Banco to-day proceeded with the application for a new trial in the libel action Anderson v. the Sydney Morning Herald, in which the plaintiff was awarded ...
  • IPSWICH. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] September 1. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864-1933) Tuesday 4 September 1883, page 3
    News 904 words

    AT the monthly meeting of the Brassall board this afternoon there was a full attendance, and Mr. Bryce occupied the chair. A letter was received from the Bunbanba board, asking for ...
  • Classified Advertising [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864-1933) Thursday 19 April 1888, page 7
    Advertising 3388 words

  • MINING INTELLIGENCE. THE STOCK EXCHANGE OF PERTH. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879-1954) Monday 12 September 1892, page 2
    News 3585 words

    The following are Saturday's quotations: Gold.—Blackborne (pro.), sellera 4s.; do. (con.), sellers 2s. 8d.; Central, sellers 39m.; Fraaer's, sellers 8s.; Fraser's South (pro.), ...
  • IN THE EARLY DAYS. THE BIRTH AND GROWTH OF BRISBANE AND ENVIRONS. CONSERVATIVE IPSWICH. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864-1933) Monday 31 October 1892, page 2
    News 1930 words

    True to his promise Colonel Snodgrass resigned, and two gentlemen came forward in the interests of the electors of the combined counties of Gloucester, Macquarie, and ...
  • MOUNT MORGAN. OPPORTUNITIES WON AND LOST. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 22 August 1931, page 4
    News 1654 words

    When the story of the discovery of the Mount Morgan gold and copper mine in Queensland was first told the question was put, "Why was it not found before?" ...
  • OLD STORY RETOLD. THE GOLD ERA BEGINS JAMES ESMOND'S "FIND." [ tagged as Australian Goldfields History Clunes Diggings Edward Hammond Hargraves James W Esmond Ophir Diggings ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 14 January 1928, page 6
    News 1781 words

    Into the straggling little village of Geelong, on July 5, 1851,rode the man who in spite of tho chinns of numerous rival prospectors, has sinee been given credit for ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Herald, May 26.) [ tagged as Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 28 May 1851, page 2
    News 830 words

    Our readers will be glad to hear that a gentleman of great intelligence left Sydney for Bathurst on Tuesday last, for the purpose of writing, for the Herald, a series of ...
  • Sydney News. DISCOVERY OF AN EXTENSIVE GOLD FIELD. (From the Bath[?]st Free Press, May 10) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Guyong Diggings Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 17 May 1851, page 4
    News 3177 words

    The existence of gold in the Wellington district has for a long time been an ascertained fact, but public attention has never until now been seriously drawn to the circumstance. A ...
  • Sydney New[?]. THE GOLD DISCOVERY. (From the Bathurst Free Press, May 17) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 24 May 1851, page 1
    News 4829 words

    The discovery of the fact by Mr. Hargraves that the country from the mountain ranges to an indefinite extent into the interior is one immense gold field has produced a tremendous ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 11 June 1851, page 4
    News 3025 words

    In another part of the paper will be found reports from our own Correspondent and the Bathurst Free Press of the state of the gold diggings, which ...
  • LATEST NEWS FROM SYDNEY AND THE GOLD MINES. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 11 June 1851, page 2
    News 5492 words

    BY the arrival of the screw-steamer "City of Melbourne" at Launceston from Melbourne, intelligence has been received from Sydney to the 30th ult., and from Victoria to the 5th inst. ...
  • New South Wales.—Discovery of Rich Gold Diggings!!! [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings ]

    The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News (WA : 1848-1864) Friday 22 August 1851, page 2
    News 2599 words

    A few weeks since we gave an extract from one of the Sydney journals, intimating the probability that Gold would be found in that province; the idea we now ...
  • Sydney News. THE LONDON WOOL SALES. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 18 September 1852, page 4
    News 2828 words

    Sale of 320 bales by THOMAS SOUTHEY AND SON, on 24th May: Ex Blackfriar—D[?] & Co., 6 at 20d., 3 at 18hd; JT, 3 at 19hd: Damaged, 1 at 18d; Lambs s[?]oured, 2 at 24d, ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE MEROO. (From our Correspondent.) Meroo, January 8, 1853. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 19 January 1853, page 4
    News 3205 words

    I have nothing of much importance to communicate at present. Mr. A. Macarthur's party of four were fortunate enough to dig out a nugget of 12 ozs., and the same day 5 ozs. of fine ...
  • THE COURIER. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 26. Strenue et Prospere. LATEST NEWS FROM SYDNEY. [ tagged as Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Tuesday 26 February 1856, page 2
    News 1574 words

    NEW GOLD DISCOVERY.—THE CASE OF MR. G. D. LANG.—ANNUAL COMMEMORATION OF THE UNIVERSITY.—LATEST COMMERCIAL, &c. &c. &c. OUR advices from Sydney extend to the 19th ...
  • Intercolonial Mining in Brief. (Summarised from our Exchanges.) NEW SOUTH WALES. [ tagged as Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings ]

    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864-1933) Wednesday 12 November 1879, page 5
    News 2087 words

    THERE are nineteen claims at work at the Cootamundra rush, and of these four are on gold. The gold is very fine, the heaviest speck yet found weighing 21gr. There are about 200 men ...
  • 82 YEARS IN AUSTRALIA. Centenarian's Memories. [ tagged as Bushrangers Ophir Diggings ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 26 June 1924, page 7
    News ILLUSTRATED 908 words

    In the year 1824, when the late Queen Victoria was a tiny child in her nursery, when the post Byron's untimely death was still recent, and when New South Wales ...
  • COLONIAL EXTRACTS. NELSON AND WELLINGTON. (From the New Zealnader, April 30.) [ tagged as OCR problem Ophir Diggings ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 7 June 1851, page 4
    News 3511 words

    B[?] the arrival of the Autares, which reached our port yesterday afternoon, we are fplaced in possession of Wellington papers to the 16th, and the Nelson Examiner to the 5th instant. The ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. BRAIDWOOD. (From the Goulburn Herald, June 3.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Pyramul Creek Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 10 June 1854, page 4
    News 5638 words

    In my last I mentioned a rush having been made to a point above Mr. Lundie's public house —it has not turned out so well as was expected, and very few are persevering enough to continue ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD (From the Empire, June 10.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 14 June 1851, page 4
    News 2279 words

    The gold received by last post by Messrs. William Walker and Co. was portion of the purchases of Mr. Edward Austin, of Bathurst, and is about being shipped to Messrs. Walker, ...
  • STEAM COMMUNICATION. (From the S. M. Herald, July 15.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 19 July 1851, page 2
    News 3536 words

    Below will be found a letter from the Admiralty, giving an account of the different tenders for conveying the mails to Sydney by steam. The tenders for the Panama line were ...
  • Government Gazette. FRIDAY, 18TH JULY, 1851. VACCINATION. [ tagged as Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 23 July 1851, page 1
    News 1657 words

    His Excellency the Governor has directed the publication of the following extract of the notice dated 11th January, 1847. Colonial Secretary's Office, ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. OPHIR. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings Tambaroora Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 24 November 1852, page 2
    News 649 words

    Nov. 13.—The number of diggers on the Summerhill and Lewis Ponds Creeks, have increased since last month by about twenty per cent.; and I have little doubt that the number ...
  • SYDNEY. OUR advices from Sydney extend to the 11th inst. [ tagged as Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Thursday 19 June 1856, page 2
    News 1012 words

    Within the last few days a great deal of excitement has been created in the Wellington District by the opening of a new gold-field in that neighbourhood, which bids fair to take a prominent position ...
  • THE WESTERN GOLD FIELDS. [ tagged as Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 10 November 1855Supplement: Supplement to the Maitland Mercury, page 2
    News 448 words

    Mr. Johnson, the Acting Gold Commissioner for the Western Districts, has, in a report to the Governor General, dated the 5th of October last, given ...
  • Intercolonial Mining in Brief. (Summarised from our Exchanges.) NEW SOUTH WALES. [ tagged as Gold Receipts Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings ]

    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864-1933) Wednesday 24 December 1879, page 5
    News 3166 words

    THE prospectors of Opossum Gully, Cootamundra, drove 30ft. north-east and came upon pl[?]nty of wash, which was mixed with a large quantity of boulders. The prospects are 1gr. ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE WORLD'S END DIGGINGS. (From our own Correspondent.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves George's River gold Mitchell's Creek Diggings Molong Goldfields Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields World's End Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 27 August 1851, page 4
    News 3809 words

    The World's End, August 16th, 1851. Since my last communication dated the 9th instant, nothing strange has happened at "The World's End"; fresh discoveries of gold fields ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. TURON. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 18 October 1851, page 4
    News 2807 words

    NEALE'S POINT, OCTOBER 9.—A considerable quantity of rain fell at intervals during the early part of the day, which much impeded digging operations; indeed, I may say, that only about ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. OPHIR. (From the Bathurst Free Press, Nov. 6.) [ tagged as Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 10 November 1852, page 3
    News 2787 words

    As the summer season is setting in and the creeks are gradually lowering, the eyes of many of the diggers are again directed to Ophir; and it is a prevalent belief the Summerhill Creek will ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. SOFALA. (From the Herald.) [ tagged as Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 23 October 1852, page 4
    News 4805 words

    OCT. 13.—STABBING.—On Monday morning last, intelligence was received that a murder had been committed the previous evening, at Berrima Hill. Sergeant Gainer at once proceeded to the ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From a Correspondent.) Sofala, November 8, 1852. [ tagged as Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Pyramul Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 17 November 1852, page 4
    News 2906 words

    I am happy to say for some time past we have had very fine weather, which is very advantageous to those concerned in mining operations. The weather is now very hot, and the diggings ...
  • THE EARLY DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN AUSTRALIA. TO THE EDITOR. [ tagged as Australian Goldfields History Edward Hammond Hargraves John Hardman Australia Lister Ophir Diggings William and James Tom ]

    The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879-1954) Saturday 13 March 1897, page 11
    News 1000 words

    SIR,—In reading under the above heading some short time ago I was amused to observe the statement that Sir R. Murchison was accredited with the discovery ...
  • Early Gold Discoverers. [ tagged as Australian Goldfields History Count Strzelecki Edward Hammond Hargraves John Hardman Australia Lister Ophir Diggings William and James Tom William Branwhite CLARKE ]

    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864-1933) Saturday 7 April 1877, page 3
    News 1634 words

    MR. Charles Tom, writing from Tambo to The Queenslander, says:- In your issue of the 17th February there appears some account of the discovery of gold in ...
  • THE GOLD DISCOVERY IN AUSTRALIA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRISBANE COURIER. [ tagged as Australian Goldfields History Edward Hammond Hargraves John Hardman Australia Lister Ophir Diggings William and James Tom William Branwhite CLARKE ]

    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864-1933) Friday 26 July 1867, page 2
    News 592 words

    SIR,—In your issue of yesterday your "Sydney Man" refers to "the application of Mr. J. F. (should be E. H.) Hargraves to the Melbourne Assembly for payment of the balance of ...
  • PRODUCE CIRCULAR. (From the S. M. Herald, Oct. 25.) [ tagged as Bathurst Goldfields Braidwood Goldfields Goulburn NSW Goldfields Meroo Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Monday 20 October 1851, page 4
    News 2917 words

    We have no alteration to notice in our produce market, but prices as last quoted continue to be fully maintained, as will be seen by reference to our catalogue below. A very small quantity of ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE MEROO GOLD FIELD. (From the Herald, Feb. 9.) [ tagged as baskerville Meroo Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 11 February 1852, page 2
    News 824 words

    The following is an extract from a letter written by Mr. William Blackman, of Mudgee, to a mercantile house in Sydney:—"A new digging was discovered on Friday last just below ...
  • WOOL MARKETS. (From the Mark Lane Express, Nov. 22.) BRITISH WOOL. [ tagged as Braidwood Goldfields Gold Receipts Meroo Goldfields Ophir Diggings Tamworth Goldfields Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 3 April 1852, page 3
    News 1608 words

    LEEDS, November 21.—There has been a better feeling in the English wool market during the present week, and more inquiry for wool. We cannot quote any change in prices. ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE MEROO. (From our own Correspondent.) [ tagged as Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Meroo Goldfields Ophir Diggings Richardsons Point now Windeyer Summerhill Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 28 January 1852, page 2
    News 1389 words

    RICHARDSON'S POINT, JANUARY 18, 1852.— Almost all the parties about here are doing very well. Mr. Solomon's party the first day after opening a claim took 1½ oz. of gold, and have ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE MEROO. (From our own Correspondent.) [ tagged as Braidwood Goldfields Gilmandyke Creek Diggings Meroo Goldfields Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 31 March 1852, page 2
    News 1535 words

    DEVIL'S HOLE CREEK, MARCH 21.—I have the painful duty to write about the melancholy accident which happened here on Monday last to Mr. John Long, son of Mr. Benjamin Long, ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE MEROO AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. (From the Herald, Nov. 15.) [ tagged as Meroo Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 19 November 1853, page 4
    News 2422 words

    MEROO, Nov. 7.—I have remarked that very little notice is taken in your paper of this portion of the western gold field: this is probably because most of the persons working here ...
  • NEWCASTLE SHIPPING. (From our reporter.) ARRIVAL. [ tagged as Bence's Creek Diggings Brown's Creek Diggings Burrendong Diggings Caleula Creek Diggings Cherrytree Hill Creek Diggings Cudgegong River Goldfields Davy's Creek Diggings Dirt Hole Creek Diggings Dun-dun Creek Diggings Forster's Creek Diggings Fredericks Valley Diggings Gilmandyke Creek Diggings Goldfields of NSW Green Valley Creek Diggings Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Louisa Creek Diggings Macquarie River Goldfields Meroo Goldfields Mitchell's Creek Diggings Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Pyramul Creek Diggings Sewell's Creek Diggings Stoney Creek Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings Tambaroora Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields Wattle Flat Diggings Wentworth Diggings Winburndale Creek Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 18 July 1855, page 3
    News 479 words

    JULY 15.—Notion, schooner, 127 tons, Capt. Shannan, from Geelong. DEPARTURES. JULY l8.—Sylvia, schooner, Captain Gorden, for ...
  • Famous Victorian Nuggets Many Rich Discoveries [ tagged as Anderson's Creek Diggings Ararat Goldfields Australian Goldfields History Bakery Hill Diggings Ballarat Goldfields Berrima Goldfields Buninyong Goldfields Clunes Diggings Coromandel Goldfields Echunga Diggings Edward Hammond Hargraves Fingal Goldfields Goldfields of New Zealand Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Meroo Goldfields Mount Moliagul Goldfields Ophir Diggings Tarnagulla Goldfields Wedderburn Goldfields Welcome Nugget Welcome Stranger Nugget William Branwhite CLARKE ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 14 February 1931Supplement: The Argus. Saturday Camera Supplement, page 3
    News 1031 words

    VICTORIA has not only proved itself to be a land unusually rich in gold, but many large nuggets have been discovered in ...
  • Council Paper. REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE GOLD FIELDS MANAGEMENT BILL. [ tagged as Australian Goldfields History Edward Hammond Hargraves Goldfield Regulations John Hardman Australia Lister Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields William and James Tom ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 24 September 1853, page 4
    News 2668 words

    The select committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 8th of June last, "to whom was referred a Bill to amend the Act for regulating the management of the Gold Fields ...
  • COLONIAL EXTRACTS LITERARY TOURNAMENT BETWEEN MR. PATRICK LESLIE AND DR. LANG. [ tagged as Australian Goldfields History Bathurst Goldfields Boyle Travers Finniss Edward Hammond Hargraves John Hardman Australia Lister Mitchell's Creek Diggings Molong Goldfields Mookerawa Creek Diggings Nubrygan Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Sir John Franklin Turon River Goldfields William and James Tom ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 31 January 1852, page 4
    News 4215 words

    OUR Sydney papers by the [?]Lavina furnish us with the information that Mr. Patrick Leslie, of Goomburra, Darling Downs, had resolved to break a quill with the political Divine above ...
  • Council Paper. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS. [EXTRACTS FROM THE PAPERS LAID BEFORE COUNCIL.] REPORT OF THE SURVEYOR GENERAL ON THE GOLD FIELDS OF BATHURST, WELLINGTON, &C. Surveyor General's Office, Sydney, Oct. 16, 1851. [ tagged as Mount Alexander Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 18 February 1852, page 4
    News 6609 words

    SIR—As you are aware, I proceeded, in obedience to the desire of his Excellency the Governor, expressed in your letter No. 51-268, and dated 21st May, to ascertain by actual survey, ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the Empire) [ tagged as Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 10 December 1851, page 4
    News 736 words

    SOFALA, DEC 2.—An accident occurred last night at Golden Point, through the incautious discharge of a pistol, whereby a woman, seated with an infant in her arms, at her tea in her tent, ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. OPHIR. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 22 June 1853, page 4
    News 889 words

    JUNE 13.—An old hut keeper named Curran who for the last twelve months has been working on the Lewis Ponds Creek by himself, rather successfully, has commenced tunnelling from high ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. OPHIR. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 16 November 1853, page 4
    News 2806 words

    Nov. 7.—The reduction of the license fee has already brought back many of our old hands; and at Ophir alone we have now nearly as many miners as we have had during the past six ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. OPHIR. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 7 December 1853, page 4
    News 2455 words

    November 28.—During the last three weeks we have had numerous new arrivals at Ophir, the number of gold seekers here being now nearly double that of last year at this season. ...
  • Sydney News. [ tagged as Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 7 January 1854, page 4
    News 3578 words

    THE COLONIAL OFFICE AND THE ConSPIRACY. —We learn from what we consider good authority, that le[?]ters were received from Mr. Donaldson, by the Harbinger, in which that ...
  • COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Geological Surveys Ophir Diggings William Branwhite CLARKE ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 6 September 1851, page 2
    News 2392 words

    Trade has been pretty fair during the past week, with no alteration in the price of general store goods. Few transactions have taken place in grain. ...
  • TALLOW. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings William Branwhite CLARKE ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Monday 22 September 1851Supplement: Supplement to the "Moreton Bay Courier.", page 1
    News 796 words

    AUSTRALIAN TALLOW.—257 casks offered—128 sold. Prices realised for beef 35s. to 35s. 6d.; for mutton 36s. 6d. to 37s.[?] A few casks beef tallow, middling ...
  • MAITLAND MERCURY. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1852. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS. [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Edward Hammond Hargraves Fredericks Valley Creek Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings Wentworth Diggings William Branwhite CLARKE ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 11 February 1852, page 2
    News 1505 words

    THE returns relative to the recent geological surveys of the colony, furnished in reply to an address from the Legislative Council, and laid on the Council ...
  • Council Paper. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS. [EXTRACTS FROM THE PAPERS LAID BEFORE COUNCIL.] [Mr. Clarke's correspondence extends to such a length that we gladly avail ourselves of the following abridgment of it prepared by our contemporary the S. M. Herald.—Ed. M. M.] [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields William Branwhite CLARKE ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 28 February 1852, page 4
    News 2847 words

    With a very praiseworthy desire to obtain every possible information on the subject of the mineral products of the country, the colonial government, after enlisting the services of Mr. ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. TURON. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Orange Goldfields Turon River Goldfields William Branwhite CLARKE ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 12 June 1852, page 4
    News 2717 words

    SOFALA, JUNE 2.—The weather, which with us at the gold fields is a never failing topic of conversation, has, during the past two or three days, been dry, with the appearance of winter ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the Empire.) Oakey Creek, Turon, Sept. 8, 1852. [ tagged as Oakey Creek on Turon Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 18 September 1852, page 2
    News 686 words

    On yesterday evening we had thunder and lightning, accompanied by heavy rain, which has again caused the river to rise considerably. At Church Hill some of the claims are doing ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Tarshish Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 11 October 1851, page 3
    News 1334 words

    WE have Sydney journals to the 27th ultimo, from which we make the following extracts: Trade continues exceedingly dull—altogether owing the insufficient means of internal communication; ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Batharst Free Press, July 19.) OPHIR. [ tagged as Deadman's Creek on Fish Ophir Diggings Wallaby Rocks Sofala on Turon ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 26 July 1851, page 4
    News 2693 words

    The flooding of the Summerhill Creek has been a serious obstacle to the Ophir miners, and with the prospect of continued rain there appears to be no probability of a speedy change. ...
  • MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Bathurst Free Press, July 23.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields Wallaby Rocks Sofala on Turon ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Saturday 2 August 1851Supplement: Supplement to the "Moreton Bay Courier.", page 1
    News 872 words

    SEVERAL parties have passed through the town during the last few days on their way from Ophir to the Turon, having been driven from the former place by the floods. None of them complained of ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Bathurst [?]ree Press, July 23.) [ tagged as Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Macquarie River Goldfields Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek on Macquarie Turon River Goldfields Wallaby Rocks Sofala on Turon ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 30 July 1851, page 4
    News 3757 words

    Several parties have passed through the town during the last few days on their way from Ophir to the Turon, having been driven from the former place by the floods. None of them ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Herald, November 6.) [ tagged as Ophir Diggings Tarshish Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 8 November 1851, page 3
    News 1896 words

    The following items of news arrived this morning by express. The mail reached Penrith last night at 9 o'clock. Of gold, there were three boxes, and some quantity in the bags; ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 20 March 1852, page 2
    News 839 words

    BY the arrival of the Shamrock we have news to the 6th March. The Southern Gold Field—A private letter from the Rev W. B. Clarke, received yesterday, says:—"I am ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. MAITLAND NEWS FROM THE DIGGINGS. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields Wallaby Rocks Sofala on Turon World's End Diggings Woronora River ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 30 August 1851, page 4
    News 2616 words

    Several letters containing remittances of gold or money have been received in Maitland and the neighbourhood this week, from persons at the diggings, but few of the letters mention ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Execution Goldfield Regulations Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 12 November 1851, page 2
    News 3748 words

    We have received Sydney journals to the 1st November. The disputed Elections Committee— consisting of seven members nominated by the Speaker (Dr. Nicholson)—had been disapproved ...
  • LOCAL. [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Lady Jane Franklin Ophir Diggings Sir John Franklin ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 11 February 1852, page 3
    News 3027 words

    THE MINISTRY.—Mr Hawes bas resigned his office of Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, upon his Appointment to that of Deputy Secretary at War, in place of the Right Hon. Lawrence Sulivan, ...
  • NEW SOUTH WALES. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News (WA : 1848-1864) Friday 10 October 1851, page 3
    News 1692 words

    THE accounts from Bathurst are somewhat voluminous. The following are the most striking items:— The Ophir diggings were being partially ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. BRAIDWOOD. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Braidwood Goldfields Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 6 March 1852, page 3
    News 2102 words

    FEBRUARY 28.—In my last communication I have referred to a new gold field which has been discovered and is now being worked at the Little River, near Braidwood, and in the immediate ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. TAMBAROORA. (From the Bathurst Free Press.) [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Braidwood Goldfields Goldfields Ophir Diggings Tambaroora Creek Diggings Tuena Creek Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 22 January 1853, page 4
    News 915 words

    Tambaroora is quiet at present. The diggers are so much scattered about among the old claims that the place seems deserted. Notwithstanding all this, above three hundered licenses ...
  • SYDNEY NEWS. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 26 July 1851, page 2
    News 1345 words

    BY the arrival of the Emma we have Sydney papers to the 16th instant, and we furnish the most important items of intelligence below. GOLD. ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Bungonia Diggings Edward Hammond Hargraves Goldfields Louisa Creek Diggings Meroo Goldfields Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Tarshish Diggings Turon River Goldfields World's End Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 24 September 1851, page 2
    News 2463 words

    A gentleman who has just come down from Mudgee, after a hurried visit to the Meroo, Louisa, and World's End diggings, reports that there were a great number of diggers at work ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Edward Hammond Hargraves Fredericks Valley Creek Goldfields Ophir Diggings Tarshish Diggings Turon River Goldfields Wentworth Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 27 September 1851, page 2
    News 649 words

    WE have intelligence from Sydney to the 11th instant. A statement which had been made by Mr. Hargreaves at Bathurst, that "the Southern Districts were full of gold," was daily receiving ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. MAITLAND NEWS FROM THE DIGGINGS. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Braidwood Goldfields Bunbun Creek Diggings Fredericks Valley Creek Goldfields Isabella Creek on Abercrombie Louisa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields Wardong Creek Diggings Wentworth Diggings World's End Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 13 September 1851, page 1
    News 2461 words

    During the last few days several persons have returned from the Turon diggings, and among them Mr. Norrie, Mr. Phelan, and Mr. Wolfe. The two latter wont up only on a brief ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Herald, Sept 26.) [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Araluen Creek Diggings Edward Hammond Hargraves Goldfields Ophir Diggings Tarshish Diggings Turon River Goldfields William Branwhite CLARKE ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 1 October 1851, page 1
    News 1856 words

    The gold brought down yesterday to the Colonial Treasury, under escort, and consigned to private indivi[?]uals, weighed 5336 ounces, 12 dwts. I grain—that for the government weighed ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Bathurst Free Press, July 12.) THE TURON DIGGINGS. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Crudine Creek on Turon Goldfields Oakey Creek on Turon Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields Two-Mile Creek Turon Wallaby Rocks Sofala on Turon ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 19 July 1851, page 4
    News 2326 words

    Several large parcels of gold have reached the town from the Turon. Mr. Pite, of Sydney, has arrived at Bathurst with 100 ounces, and Fitzpatrick's party, who were amongst the first ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Bathurst Free Press, July 5.) THE TURON DIGGINGS. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Fitzgerald's' Valley Diggings Geological Terms Gold Treatment Goldfields Havilah Diggings Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Mount Tennent ACT Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields Wallaby Rocks Sofala on Turon William Branwhite CLARKE ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 12 July 1851, page 4
    News 3902 words

    An extensive migration from Ophir is now taking place to the Turon, and numbers are daily arriving there from Sydney, Maitland, and even from New England. Bathurst is now ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. A HUNDRED WEIGHT OF GOLD. (From the Bathurst Free Press, July 16.) [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Gold Treatment Goldfields Meroo Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 23 July 1851, page 4
    News 4006 words

    Bathurst is mad again. The delirium of golden fever has returned with increased intensity. Men meet together, stare stupidly at each other, talk incoherent nonsense, and wonder ...
  • (From the Bathurst Free Press, Sept. 27.) GOLD SCRAPS. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Araluen Creek Diggings Edward Hammond Hargraves Goldfields Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 4 October 1851, page 1
    News 1220 words

    Mr. John Want arrived in Bathurst, a few days ago, on his way to Synney, having disposed of his third share of a digging claim for £100. In course of a conversation with him, we lear[?]t ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Empire.) THE TURON. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Araluen Creek Diggings Braidwood Goldfields Bushrangers Goldfields Guntawang Station Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 22 October 1851, page 2
    News 2036 words

    OCTOBER 16.—Through the efforts of the ministry Sunday trading is about to be abolished; the various storekeepers having signed a round robin to that effect. ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Empire.) THE TURON. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Araluen Creek Diggings Gold Receipts Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 12 November 1851, page 4
    News 602 words

    A daring robbery occurred yesterday, (3rd instant) in broad daylight, and in the centre of the settlement. A man was knocked down openly, and eighty pounds abstracted from his ...
  • Government Gazette. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1851. DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOL BOARD. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Araluen Creek Diggings Goldfields Ophir Diggings Orange Goldfields Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 29 November 1851, page 1
    News 1959 words

    His Excellency the Governor General has been pleased to appoint Arthur Savage, Esq., R.N., to be a member of the Board for the temporal regulation and management of the ...
  • PRODUCE CIRCULAR. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Orange Goldfields Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 12 November 1851, page 4
    News 1883 words

    Since our last circular indirect advices have been received of the opening of the London sales for July and August: the dates extend to the 24th July, at which time June prices continued ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From Bell's Life, June 19.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Braidwood Goldfields Ophir Diggings Orange Goldfields Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 23 June 1852, page 4
    News 2285 words

    SOFALA, JUNE 15.—Some time since I stated that I thought the Turon had not been half worked; it now turns out that I was correct. New diggings are being discovered every day ...
  • PRODUCE CIRCULAR. (From the Herald, December 6.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Braidwood Goldfields Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings Orange Goldfields Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 10 December 1851, page 4
    News 1610 words

    The animated state of our wool market, as noticed in our last report, has received additional impetus by the further advices from England per Blackwall, extending to the end of August. ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the Bathurst Free Press, Feb. 4.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Braidwood Goldfields Ophir Diggings Orange Goldfields Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 7 February 1852, page 2
    News 2068 words

    It an earthquake had devastated the region of the Turon, its effects could scarcely have been more disastrous than those occasioned by the floods of the past week. On Sunday, the 25th ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the S. M. Herald.) FLOOD AND LOSS OF LIFE AT THE TURON. [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Braidwood Goldfields Ophir Diggings Orange Goldfields Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 27 December 1851, page 2
    News 1654 words

    ERSKINE POINT, DEC. 19.—Yesterday afternoon we were visited with a storm (or rather the effects of a storm) of no ordinary description; the first indication of which was the appearance ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the Herald, Feb. 19.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Orange Goldfields Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 23 February 1853, page 4
    News 2343 words

    At foot I send you a copy of a memorial sent by the committee appointed at the meeting of the 15th February to his Excellency the Governor General. You will perceive that its ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. TAMBAROURA. (From the Bathurst Free Press, Oct. 23.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Orange Goldfields Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 30 October 1852, page 3
    News 737 words

    Tambaroura is getting dull, as many of the diggers are leaving for Ophir, the Turon, and the Macquarie, in the hope that as the weather settles the hed cl[?]ims will become workable, at ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the Correspondent of the Bathurst Free Press, March 19.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Orange Goldfields Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 26 March 1853, page 4
    News 2922 words

    Mining operations have still an improving tendency. The whole of the miners on Mundy Bar are doing remarkably well. The following may be relied on. The centre claim of (Spong's) ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE SOUTHERN DIGGINGS. (From the Goulburn Herald, April 17.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Braidwood Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 24 April 1852, page 2
    News 1209 words

    BELL'S CREEK.—The private land on Bell's Flat is being worked to great advantage to the holders of claims. Mr. Hawker, a relative of the owner of the property, has issued a code of ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. OPHIR. (From the Herald. [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Braidwood Goldfields Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 13 April 1853, page 4
    News 3203 words

    APRIL 5.—Since my last, of the 28th ultimo, the prophecy therein contained of the expected further success of the company working the waterhole claims of Messrs. Samuels and ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE MEROO. (From the Empire.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Braidwood Goldfields Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 29 March 1854, page 4
    News 635 words

    We have been favoured with the following letter from a practical digger at the Meroo. There is a large section of country in the vicinity of the Meroo untried, or rather unworked, ...
  • Sydney News. PRODUCE CIRCULAR AND MARKETS. (From the S. M. Herald, Aug. 4.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Braidwood Goldfields Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 8 August 1855Supplement: Supplement to the Maitland Mercury, page 1
    News 4267 words

    In the wool market this week an improvement in price is noticeable. The report of the London sales, as far as have yet come to hand, showing an advance on February ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the Empire, July 19.) Oakey Creek, Tuesday, 13th July, 1852. [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Braidwood Goldfields Ophir Diggings Orange Goldfields Tambaroora Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 24 July 1852, page 4
    News 2733 words

    At Golden Point claims are maintaining their characters; the two best claims have turned out last week 140 ounces, others yielding from two to three ounces per day, and numbers sinking places ...
  • LATEST NEWS. [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields William Branwhite CLARKE ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Monday 10 November 1851Supplement: Supplement to the "Moreton Bay Courier.", page 1
    News 2630 words

    By the Eagle we Have Sydney papers to Tuesday last, the 4th November. English news to July 24th had been received, by way of Madras, and, although ...
  • PRODUCE CIRCULAR. (From the Herald.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 19 November 1851, page 4
    News 3019 words

    The deliveries of pastoral produce during the week have not been large; prices of wool, skins, and hides have been fully maintained. Tallow has been sold about 5s. per ton lower. ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE MEROO. (From our Correspondent.) Hunter's Point, Devil's Hole Creek, May 2, 1852. [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Gold Receipts Gold Treatment Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 12 May 1852, page 2
    News 1681 words

    The diggings about here are still turning out very well. Up at the Devil's Hole the people are doing a tidy stroke in making a fortune. On the banks of the creek, opposite where Dr. ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE BRAIDWOOD DIGGINGS (From the Herald.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Braidwood Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 10 January 1852, page 2
    News 1243 words

    JAN. 1.—In the Major's Creek, work having been interrupted by Christmas, and the absence of many occupants of claims, there is nothing particular to report. In Bell's Creek, many are ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 1 May 1852, page 2
    News 1152 words

    By way of Victoria we have two or three days later news. We have the pleasure to announce, says Lloyd's Circular of the 8th April, that His Excellency Sir ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 5 May 1852, page 4
    News 1225 words

    WE have Sydney journals to the 20th ultimo. The first step has been taken to procuring freedom in-Synodical action, which the Church of England Bishops at their Conference in October ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the Empire.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 3 July 1852, page 4
    News 1644 words

    Oakey Creek, June 22.—The new diggings at the Sheepstation are by no means lucrative to the diggers with one or two exceptions; the principal number of the chaims have turned out ...
  • NEW CONSTITUTION. Despatch from the Right Honorable Earl Grey, to his Excellency Sir Charles A. Fitz Roy. Downing-street, 23rd January, 1852. [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Tambaroora Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 24 July 1852, page 2
    News 6720 words

    SIR—I have to acknowledge your despatch, No. 105, of the 18th June last, enclosing an address from the late Legislative Council of New South Wales, embodying a declaration and ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE MEROO AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. (From the Empire.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Married Man's Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 29 September 1852, page 2
    News 2976 words

    The weather in this locality has lately been delightful, and in consequence, as anticipated, a number of the miners, who were driven away by the inclemency of the weather, have since ...
  • THE NORTHERN GOLD DIGGINGS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. (From the Special Reporter of the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 30 October 1852, page 4
    News 5547 words

    At a very early period of what may be called the Gold Era in Australia the inhabitants of different localities of the colony, inspired by the sudden discovery of prodigious wealth at Ophir, ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. BRAIDWOOD DIGGINGS. (From the Goulburn Herald, Dec. 13.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Braidwood Goldfields Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 17 December 1851, page 3
    News 1919 words

    DEC. 12.—The whole of the diggers in this quarter (Braidwood) appear to bo doing well; hundreds are going and coming every day; those who are returning have reaped a good harvest and return ...
  • SYDNEY. [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Fredericks Valley Creek Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields Wentworth Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 17 September 1851, page 2
    News 736 words

    MORE GOLD DISCOVERIES AT GOULBURN-AUGUST 29.—Intelligence of the precious metal being found about 20 miles from Braidwood has been received here. The mountain and the creek where it is found ...
  • Legislative Council. "TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1851. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Ballarat Goldfields Fredericks Valley Creek Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields Wentworth Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 22 November 1851, page 4
    News 3007 words

    The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes past three. PRIVATE BILLS. Mr. COWPER brought up the report of the ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. THE GREAT NUGGET VEIN. (From the Empire, Nov. 2.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Louisa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Pyramul Creek Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 6 November 1852, page 4
    News 2038 words

    A chains of ponds called Lewis' Ponds lies within a few hundred yards of the Louisa Creek, which at this place flows over a very level country. On a slight eminence adjacent to the small ...
  • LOCAL. [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Saturday 14 February 1852, page 3
    News 1442 words

    REV. DR. BROWNE'S PETITION.—It will be seen that the Doctor's voluntary seal is tempered with discretion, and that while professing an anxiety to relieve the Colonial Revenue from the burthen of contributing ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Herald, Nov. 20.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Braidwood Goldfields Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Louisa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings Tarshish Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 22 November 1851, page 3
    News 926 words

    The government gold conveyance arrived at Penrith last night at half past 9, and our courier, with his usual despatch, reached our office in time to enable us to publish the ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. BRAIDWOOD. (From the Herald, April 2.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Edward Hammond Hargraves Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 6 April 1853, page 4
    News 3999 words

    MARCH 22.—It is satsfactory to know that no complaints are being made in this district. We are too busy to grumble about imaginary grievances, and so far from any dissatisfaction ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. LOUISA CREEK. (From our Correspondent.) July 4th, 1852. [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Louisa Creek Diggings (2) Mookerawa Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 14 July 1852, page 2
    News 2573 words

    My claim is more and more productive; yesterday we got two ounces of gold from a single dishful of earth, being what is called a prospect or sample of the bottom of a hole, ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. NEWCASTLE NEWS FROM THE DIGGINGS. (From a Correspondent.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Australian Goldfields History Broulee Diggings Deua River Fredericks Valley Creek John Hawdon Lewis Ponds Creek Diggings Ophir Diggings Pyramul Creek Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields Wentworth Diggings World's End Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 6 September 1851, page 1
    News 2963 words

    Messrs. Ha[?]nah, Tighe, White, and Knox, who went up to the Turon in a party at rather an early period, have severally written letters to their friends, dated Turon, 24th August, 1851, ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. MAITLAND NEWS FROM THE DIGGINGS. [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Goulburn NSW Goldfields Long Tom's Creek Diggings Louisa Creek Diggings Meroo Goldfields Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 15 October 1851, page 1
    News 2476 words

    Scarcely a day passes now but we hear of arrivals of parties who have been up to the diggings from this neighbourhood, and most of the arrivals state that they have done pretty ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. MAITLAND NEWS FROM THE DIGGINGS. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Captain John Leask Devil's Hole Creek Diggings Lady Jane Franklin Meroo Goldfields Ophir Diggings Orange Goldfields Prince Albert - Ketch 90 tons Sir John Franklin Tarshish Diggings Tuena Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 8 October 1851, page 1
    News 2467 words

    We have received the following letter from Mr. H. Rourke, of Maitland, who, it will be observed, has removed with his party from the Meroo to one of its tributaries: ...
  • GOLD CIRCULARS. [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Araluen Creek Diggings Bathurst Goldfields Braidwood Goldfields Gold Receipts Goldfields Goulburn NSW Goldfields Louisa Creek Diggings Mudgee Diggings Ophir Diggings Queanbeyan Goldfields Turon River Goldfields Wellington Diggings ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 2 December 1851, page 2
    News 1284 words

    The most important piece of intelligence from our mines this week, is the discovery at Louisa Creek, of a specimen of gold in quartz, weighing 27 lbs. It is said to be almost pure, and while ...
  • Sydney News. THE GOLD FIELDS. THE TURON. (From the S. M. Herald.) [ tagged as Braidwood Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields Upper Wallaby Rocks Wallaby Rocks Sofala on Turon ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 7 January 1852, page 4
    News 828 words

    UPPER WALLABY ROCKS, DECEMBER 29.—Last week having been Christmas week, but very little work has been done in the way of gold digging, and but very little news of any interest ...
  • THE GOLD FIELDS. EXPORT OF GOLD BY THE KATE. (From the Herald, Jan. 10.) [ tagged as Araluen Creek Diggings Gold Receipts Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields Upper Wallaby Rocks Wallaby Rocks Sofala on Turon ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 14 January 1852, page 4
    News 1502 words

    The following are the quantities of gold shipped yesterday for London by the ship Kate, Captain Brodrick:- Ozs. dwts. grs. ...
  • Colonial News. VICTORIA. [ tagged as Etymology Mount Cole Diggings Nugget Ophir Diggings ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Wednesday 17 March 1852, page 1
    News 2582 words

    We have Melbourne papers to the 5th instant. The weekly escort brought down on the 3rd 12,895 ounces gold from Mount Alexander, and ...
  • LOCAL. [ tagged as Etymology Fingal Goldfields Nugget Ophir Diggings ]

    The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840-1859) Wednesday 14 April 1852, page 2
    News 2568 words

    TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.—The following paragraph from Dr. Ross's Van Diemen's Land Almanack for 1831 may not be devoid of interest at the present time. Speaking of the geography and geology of the ...
  • THE GOLD FIELD. (From the Bathurst Free Press, June 14.) [ tagged as Edward Hammond Hargraves Nugget Ophir Diggings Summerhill Creek Diggings Turon River Goldfields ]

    The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843-1893) Saturday 21 June 1851, page 4
    News 4272 words

    Since our last issue the Sydney portion of our arrivals appears to have been seized by a panic. They are rushing from the mines by dozens, and for the present all the articles of a gold-digger's ...
  • DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. IPSWICH. (From our Correspondent.) [ tagged as Abercrombie River Goldfields Araluen Creek Diggings Edward Hammond Hargraves Louisa Creek Diggings Meroo Goldfields Ophir Diggings Turon River Goldfields Warwick Goldfields ]

    The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846-1861) Monday 8 December 1851Supplement: Supplement to the "Moreton Bay Courier.", page 1
    News 1818 words

    TUESDAY, DEC. 2.—This being the usual day for the transfer of publicans[?] licenses, the consideration of them had to be adjourned for a week, for want of a second magistrate—Mr. Panton being a ...


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