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FOREIGN MISCELLANY

... perfect freedom of trade in Salt, whether for pur- poses of internal trade or exportation DISCOVERY OF A MONSTER NUGGET.-The largest nugget yet discovered has recently been found on Ballarat, Australia, at a depth of 190 feet. The weight of this splendid ...

Published: Saturday 14 August 1858
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1045 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

AUSTRALIA

... price of gold during the week had bean steady at Z3 1S5. 3d., with a larger quantity offering. THe demand bad been itood. A nugget from Jones's Creek of upwards of four hundred ounces of gold had arrived in town by escort. There had been several large parcels ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 331 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT BRITAIN

... £000,000 sterling on freight. There also is a large amount of gold dust in the I hands of passengers, several of whom have nuggets of very large size and great value in their possession. One of the passengers brought £15,000, made in a public- house in ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 931 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE AUSTRALIAN DIGGINGS

... I met a man who was saying, ' Well, I've sold the nugget and my hole for a good round sum.' a 'W here is the nugget?' I asked. I Oh, the man who has r bought it has gone off with it.' There was a nugget, no f doubt, but it had been put in by this man, ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2531 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... circumstances, it will be a reproach to the community, as well as to the govern- ment. Oin Friday last we saw another splendid nugget, which weighed S3oz. 3dwts., enclosing not more than an ounce of quartz in the hollows. Tte lucky finder was a Mr. Beattie ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1852
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 419 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE TOWN HALL BUILDINGS

... the eyes of its owners-as much being asked for an cc. tenanted stable, or a disused pigsty, as if its site werei mine of nuggets. We can well conceive that the members of the Council will feel some hesitation at embarhingoo so extensive an undertaking ...

Published: Saturday 31 January 1857
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA

... six ounces of gold were found in each cart load of A earth, and snall nuggets as large as a person'E thumb. It is in l- the locality of the place where we were, that the large nuggets of 0 gold sere found; also some very fine specimens in quartz. We had ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1852
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1617 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

AMERICA

... forward to with much anxiety by the inhabitants of Melbourne, the latest advices from England being December 10. Another large nugget of gold, weighing 48 pounds, had been taken from a hole at Ballarat. A letter from Geelong, dated 12th March, says- The ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 792 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

PORT INTELLIGENCE

... and Ireland. The tor pig iron trade on the Ribble appears to be steadily in- be creasing, for on Wednesday at noon the s.s. Nugget, the with over 300 tons arrived from Glasgow. T is we the first time that two vessels laden with pig iron a ' have arrived ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1892
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2973 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

GENERAL NEWS

... Plymouth, the filest is a magnificent mass of pure ore, weighing 340 ounces, christened in the colony the Royal Victoria Nugget of Australia, which has beeu forwarded, by gentlemen in Victoria, under charge of the Admiralty agent, as a present to her ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 839 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LANCASTER

... various distrIcts, In many of which he has found gold. On his first visit to Westmorland he found on the Windermere hills a nugget, enclosing quartz crystals, containing 57 oz. of pure gold, and of the value of £221. In the neighbourhood of Ireby he detected ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 985 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THAT CLOCK IN OXFORD STREET

... 0'and ilia I ever auffered from, or aol vc01ud nymeptome of indigestion and dyspepoia, Xe h8 finally ytsoe s the biggest nugget of wisdom ?? nlock ii Orforf dStreet, if Mr. Georga had tilled ,,sel° be wvhen ho was ill he would, on Pottic1~e rtt:oin' ...

Published: Saturday 19 November 1892
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 990 | Page: 3 | Tags: News