GOLD 



711 



The Gold Produce of Nova Scotia for 1873. 



Total for 1873 



. 11,852 7 19 



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Australian Gold-Mines. The discovery of the great gold-field in Australia to the 

 westward of Bathurst, about 150 miles from Sydney, was officially made known in 

 Great Britain, by a despatch from Sir C. A. Fitzroy to Earl Grey, on the 18th 

 September 1851, many persons with a tin dish having obtained from one to two 

 ounces per day. On May 25th, he writes that lumps have been obtained, varying 

 in weight from one ounca to four pounds. On May 29th, he writes that gold has 

 been found in abundance, that people of every class are proceeding to the locality, 



