There is a smaller rat, which the natives in the goldfields districts get in rather an ingenious way.
Although I am leaving this country, probably for good, I would not wish it to be thought that I have no faith in it, for the late developments and marvellous returns from the goldfields should convert the most sceptical.
It has been my fate, in all my exploration work, to find none but useless country, though when merely prospecting on the goldfields I have been more fortunate.
But though lines have been laid from Perth to Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, and Cue, settlers are breaking ground farther afield, and further extensions both in the direction of the agricultural districts and of the goldfields are contemplated.
Amongst the many industries started on the goldfields is the novel occupation of clearing clay-water for salt.
Doubtless on the Western goldfields of America, "lynching" would have been his portion.
There can be no doubt that with a better rainfall or with some means of irrigation, could artesian water be found, a great part of the goldfields would be excellent pastoral land.
The area over which the goldfields extend, may be described as very gently undulating country, from which rise, at intervals, low ranges or isolated hills.
The chief goldfields of Uruguay lie in the northern province of Rivera, and are situated in the neighbourhoods of Corrales, Cunapiru, and Zapucaya.
Evident symptoms of the return of the `yellow' fever, and a journey to the new goldfields seemed to be the only cure.
Edward Hargreaves, the discoverer of the Australian goldfields .
The word nugget was in use in Australia many years before the goldfields were heard of.
A varied colonial experience, the area of which became enlarged when I was appointed a police magistrate and goldfields commissioner in 1871, supplied types and incidents.
Although I had, particularly in the early days of my goldfields duties, a sufficiency of hard and anxious work, entailing serious responsibility, I never relinquished the habit of daily writing and story-weaving.
The which, in plenteousness of pasture and high prices for wool and stock, were the most fortunate seasons for squatters since the 'fifties,' with their accompanying goldfields prosperity.
Christmas on the goldfields in the last of the roaring days, in the palmy days of Gulgong and those fields.
The area under the surveillance of the Board should include the Heidelberg, Witwatersrand, and Klerksdorp districts, and other goldfields as may be found desirable hereafter.
The development of the Barberton Goldfields was a revelation to the peasant mind of what the power of gold is.
Hammond, of the Consolidated Goldfields Company in Johannesburg.
The proposed Local Board for the goldfields was promptly ruled out as an unthinkable proposition, a government within a government, and was so denounced by the President himself.
Mr. Jan Meyer suggests that those who came early to the goldfields should memorialize separately, and he would support them.
Those who had so far taken a prominent part in the agitation had been for convenience utilizing Colonel Rhodes' office in the Consolidated Goldfields Company's building.
Pastoralists thought ruin stared them in the face till they found what a market the goldfields offered for their surplus stock.
The vast crowds on the goldfieldsrequired to be fed, so the farmers found ample market for their corn, and the squatters for their beef and mutton.
Thus the colony very rapidly returned to its former state of peaceful progress, and the goldfields were soon distinguished for their orderly and industrious appearance.
But he could scarcely be expected to make any important change until he had been a few months in the colony, and had learnt exactly the state of affairs, and, meanwhile, the discontent on the goldfields was daily increasing.
This tax had been imposed under the erroneous impression that every one who went upon the goldfields must of necessity earn a fortune.
Among the confused crowds on the goldfields there were numbers of troublesome spirits, many of them foreigners, who were only too happy to foment dissension.
But the event which made the year 1851 especially memorable in the annals of Australia was the discovery, near Bathurst, of the first of those rich goldfields which, for so long a time, changed the prospects of the colonies.
So great were the numbers of those who were daily packing up their effects and setting off for the goldfields of New South Wales that Victoria seemed likely to sink into a very insignificant place on the list of Australian colonies.
Clarke, a clergyman devoted to geology, exhibited specimens in Sydney, on which he based an opinion that the Blue Mountains would, eventually, be found to possess goldfields of great extent and value.
A large number of the prisoners were no sooner liberated than they set off for the goldfields in the eastern colonies, which thus began to share in the evils of convictism.
When the population on the goldfields began to grow numerous, the Government found it necessary to make arrangements for the preservation of law and order.
The markets opened up by the goldfields of Port Darwin repaid some of their enterprise.
The future possibilities of these yet practically untouched goldfields no one can estimate.
Nicholls, Johannesburg)] It was incidental to the first operations on the then unknown geological formation of the Rand, when the very science of the goldfieldshad to be created.
The next danger is that arising from the presence on the goldfields of the Transvaal of vast agglomerations of cosmopolitan finance owning most of the mineral wealth of the State.
Such reports naturally have not only alarmed the mining industry, but disturbed the confidence of international capitalists, upon whom the future development of the wealth of the goldfields in the first place rests.
There promised to be a rush unequalled in the annals of goldfields history.
It is an unwritten law on most goldfields throughout the world where the individual miner tries his luck that a flag be at once hoisted over every shaft that bottoms on paying gravel.
A great mass of diggers collected in the newly discovered Ballarat goldfields had petitioned repeatedly against the Government regulations about mining licences, for which extortionate fees were levied.
The goldfields were not represented in the Legislature, and there was no constitutional method of redress.
When you went careering about in unexplored goldfields with the owner, a comparative stranger, harnessed to your cart, it was just as well to have some sort of a break ready to your hand.
A few reports only had reached England about unexplored goldfields of extraordinary richness, and, as is incident to first reports, they had gained but slender credence.
The goldfields came upon us with almost the suddenness of the changes of dreamland.
Nor were the goldfields free from "sly grog selling," as it is called.
The following year, about the same pleasant spring season, I made out a second goldfields visit, in company with my late friend, Mr. W.
Another goldfields feature was of the most pleasing and inspiring character.
I recollect and record with pleasure one of the Goldfields Commission incidents illustrative of O'Shanassy's high public qualities.
We learned enough to explain, at least, if not to excuse the miners; and were thus guided to a reconstruction of goldfields administration.
We were just clear of goldfields sounds and company, and involved in the utter solitude of the primeval bush, when we espied a party approaching us on the road.
It looked as if the attempt were going to fail, just as on the goldfields the Local Courts, by which since the Stockade the diggers governed themselves, were failing, because none could afford to spend his days sitting in them.
As to Mr. Beamish's idea of the gold giving out, the geological formation of the goldfields rendered that improbable.
As early as 1860 there had been disturbances of a serious character, and the Chinese were chased off the goldfields of New South Wales, serious riots occurring at Lambing Flat, on the Burrangong goldfield.
In 1871 the ruins of the great Zimbabwe in Mashonaland, the chief fortress and distributing centre of the race which in medieval times worked the goldfields of South-East Africa, were explored by Karl Mauch.
Hunters and explorers had reported in eulogistic terms on the rich goldfields and healthy plateau lands of Matabeleland and Mashonaland, over both of which countries a powerful chief, Lobengula, claimed authority.
These appear mostly to have been Scotsmen, for President Burgers christened the earliestgoldfields Mac Mac, in consequence of the names of the invaders.
The atmosphere and circumstance of the goldfields were all about them.
In the great grab-bag system of the goldfields every man has an equal chance; and on the frontier custom affords but one field of diversion, which each may enjoy to the full extent of his purse and inclination.
Everything exhibited careful tendance, demonstrating that although many of the best labourers had levanted to the goldfields there were still some few servitors who preferred comfort to independence.
At this time, among the various pursuits and avocations by means of which men of gentle nurture who had been unsuccessful at the goldfields procured a living while leading an independent life, that of wild-fowling ranked high.
Now that she had experienced one of the dread realities of goldfields life, much of her former confidence had departed.
Later he was wounded and discharged, but even then he did not come home, but went to thegoldfields of New South Wales.
Archelaus had suddenly gone off again, after his fashion, this time to the goldfields of California, and Annie, who felt his departure bitterly, chose to blame Ishmael for it.
For the emigration had been very heavy of late years from that part of the world, to the goldfields both of Australia and California.
I also think that we have suffered through the gold, and that we might give up the goldfields without doing ourselves any harm.
During the discussion it was clearly explained that the territory which it was suggested should be ceded was the already mentioned goldfields and Swaziland.
It is said, and with some truth, that the goldfields have been a curse to us, but surely there is no reason why they should continue to be so.
Some of the burghers think that it might be well to surrender the goldfields for a certain sum of money, while others point out that the gold was the cause of the war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goldfields" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
