Articles used in CLLC tests for History Australia article:
“Identifying Another Goldfields Reporter: Frederick Dalton (1815-1880)”
Frederick Dalton Articles
4 Annual Mining Reports and 3 newspaper articles (mines and mining news)
Date Title Publication details 2 May 1874 Mines and Mining -The Billabong Goldfield Australian Town and Country Journal 8 Jul 1876 The New Goldfield between the Bogan and the Evening News Sydney Lachlan 4 Aug 1877 Mines and Mining - Emu Creek and Tyagong Goldfieds Australian Town and Country Journal 1876 Annual Report of Dept. of Mines NSW for year 1875 Thomas Richards, Govt. Printer, Sydney 1877 Annual Report of Dept. of Mines NSW for year 1876 Thomas Richards, Govt. Printer, Sydney 1879 Annual Report of Dept. of Mines NSW for year 1878 Thomas Richards, Govt. Printer, Sydney 1880 Annual Report of Dept. of Mines NSW for year 1879 Thomas Richards, Govt. Printer, Sydney
John Hux Articles
Kiandra: Sydney Morning Herald: 1860-1861
Number Date Page Subject – first lines 1 28 September 5 En Route to Kiandra: “The battle of the roads to K…” 2 20 October 4 “Since my last…” 3 22 October 4 “In this communication I wish …” 4 27 October 8 “Today’s escort… I know it is very difficult…” 5 7 November 8 “In my communications I have had occasion…” 6 17 November 7 “The escort leaves… As I explained…” 7 26 November 5 “It would seem that this place…” 8 29 November 3 “In consequence of communication with Sydney…” 9 7 December 5 “The escort left on Saturday…During the last week” 10 8 December 5 “Towards the end of last week..” 11 22 December 5 “The escort left… The above will show…” 12 8 January 5 “The escort left…I did think that…” 13 14 January 3 “The escort left on Saturday…I have so lately written”
Lachlan: Sydney Morning Herald: November 1861-May 1862
1 11 November “These fields have been so much…” 2 26 November 4 “In my communication…” 3 29 November “The extraordinary finds…” 4 6 December “There is little news to forward…” 5 13 December “Our escort leaves today…Considering the large…” 6 27 December “The escort today… I forwarded you…” 7 16 January 2 “Our escort today… This is the largest quantity…” 8 14 April “To those unaccustomed…” 9 24 April “Our escort on Monday…This is the largest…” 10 1 May 2 “The escort tomorrow… A considerable quantity…” 11 8 May “Our escort today… This escort is…” 12 16 May “The escort yesterday… During the past week”
Southern and Northern Goldfields articles
“A Visit to the Southern Goldfields”: Sydney Morning Herald, 1859.
Only those articles that were transcribed and used in the research paper are listed.
Number Date Page Places visited Link August 19 2 Burrowa, Galong, Binalong, Cunningbar, Murrumbidgee River I September 5 2 The Adelong: Gundagai, Adelong. II September 19 2 Mining in the Adelong district III September 28 8 Mining in the Adelong district IV September 29 8 Adelong district; social comment V * October 4 8 Quartz crushing at Adelong VI October 17 3 Mining in the Adelong district VII October 25 3 Adelong: social & agricultural comment VIII October 26 2 Adelong district IX October 27 3 Adelong, Watson’s Creek, White Dog Reef, Tumbarumba Creek, Bega Creek X November 8 2 The Valley of the Tumut, Lower Gilmore *Not numbered
“A Visit to the Northern Goldfields”: Sydney Morning Herald, 1859-60.
Number Date Page Places Visited I November 26 3 On route: boat to Newcastle; boat to Clarence River, Lawrence, Tabulam II December 13 3 Tabulam, roads, New Rush, Clarence Inn III December 26 3 Fairfield, Tooloom, McLeod’s Creek IV January 5 3 Timbarra Creek, McLeod’s Creek V January 19 3 Source of McLeod’s & Sandy Creeks VI January 21 7 Clarke’s Inn, Appletree Flat, Gough’s Creek VII February 27 8 Social comment; Pretty Gully XI March 8 3 Tooloom, Mt. Lindsay, Richmond River, Wyangard Station, Casino, Tabulum XVI April 23 3 Armidale social comment; Sunday XXI May 25 3 Mt. Jones, Sydney Flat, Tipperary Creek, Kentucky Creek, Wallaby Rocks, Sebastopol Pt., Maitland Pt.
Charles De Boos articles
A random selection of the articles over 2000 words were used in the tests
Charles de Boos: known writings: The first reporting known to have been written by Charles de Boos for the Sydney Morning Herald was in 1857, a series of articles under the heading ‘The Gold-Fields of New South Wales’ from ‘Our Special Commissioner’.
No. Date words Places visited 1 Apr 20 4203 “The Steamer” Williams to Newcastle … 2 Apr 23 3773 Page Valley, Murrurundi, Tamworth, Moonbie 3 May 1 2167 Bendemeer, Carlisle’s Gully, Armidale 4 May 4 2502 Armidale to Oban 5 May 8 3139 Oban 6 May 11 2521 Oban, Armidale, Rocky River 7 May 12 4048 Rocky River, Uralla 8 May 16 1293 Rocky River/Uralla, Nundle, Hanging Rock 10 Jun 26 1763 Hanging Rock, Gunoo Gunoo … 11 Jun 27 817 Barnaby’s Inn, Mudgee 13 Jul 2 2568 Murrendi to Burrendong 14 Jul 3 2256 Burrendon to Muckrawa, Ironbark 15 Jul 6 2937 Ironbark … Burrendong 16 Jul 7 3250 Burrendong to Louisa Creek 17 Jul 9 2803 Avisford, The Meroo 18 Jul 15 2691 Louisa to Tambaroora 19 Jul 20 1591 Tambaroora to Sofala 20 Jul 21 2079 Sofala 21 Jul 29 2398 Sofala to Bathurst and Kelso 22 Aug 3 2368 Bathurst to Tuenna 23 Aug 5 1327 Bathurst to Tuenna 24 Aug 18 1942 Tuenna to Binda and Goulburn
In late 1858, de Boos wrote a series of articles in the Herald on the gold rush on the Fitzroy River, upstream from Rockhampton. For this work, the Herald gave him the title ‘Our Special Commissioner’, though the last report was by ‘Our Special Correspondent’. Most of the articles were headed ‘Fitzroy Diggings’, but ‘Fitzroy Goldfields’ was also used. The first one was placed below another article headed ‘Fitzroy Gold-Fields’. Not all of the articles were numbered.
No. Date Words Opening words I Oct 5 2658 “The Yarra Yarra …” II Oct 13 1356 “I wrote you in my last…” III Oct 16 1881 “If any person will take…” IV Oct 27 2622 “The probabilities being…” V Oct 30 387 “Everything here remains…” VI Nov 6 1555 “You will have learnt…” VII Nov 7 1573 “I was in hopes of being…” VIII Nov 27 4452 “The Eagle, steamer…” IX Dec 7 1005 “Once more in Sydney…”