J.
G. Cohen's auction-rooms, in the presence of a crowded audience. His
honour the Chief Justice, the Colonial Secretary, several mem. bers of
the Legislative Council, and many of our leading merchants, were
present. The weight of the lump is about 336 ounces ; its diameter is
about nine inches; its circumference twenty-one inches. It was found
embedded in clay, about twenty-five yards from the spot where the
natives discovered the hundredweight of gold and quartz, of which Dr.
Kerr became the fortunate possessor. There was considerably more
quartz about it than the advertised description had led the public to
expect; but it is probable that, as a sample of this colony's golden
treasures, it is in its actual state more valuable, in a scientific
point of view, than if it were solid gold. The first bidding-was 700/.,
and after a short competition, it was knocked down to Mr. (I. A. Lloyd
and Mr. Holt, jun., for 1,155?.—Sydney Morning Herald, Dec. 8.
Bathurst, Dec. 17.—Several
rich claims have been sold and transferred during the p:ist week. On
Friday last, Mr. Thomas Campbell purchased a claim from two Sydney
youths named Grainger—one about eighteen and the other sixteen years of
age, for the respectable sum of 600l. at a place called Ration
Hill. On the same day, it is said, he took upwards of 50 oz. of gold
out of the hole. The party in the adjoining claim procured G7 oz. on
Thursday, and 39 oz. on Friday. Several claims have changed hands at
prices varying from 200?. to 300?. The proprietors of a claim
convenient to Mr. Davis's store have for some time been making 20 oz.
of gold per day, and many of their neighbours net from 2-1/2 oz. to 4
or 5 oz. We inspected a newly-opened hole at the foot of the ridge,
which had been sunk to an incredible depth in a single afternoon by
four men, without washing- any of the surfaco soil. Having arrived at
the gravel in which the gold is found in greatest abundance, they put
the cradles in motion, and the result of their washing for a short
period was nearly 3 oz. of beautiful gold. The party confidently
expected to make 10 or 12 ounces on the Monday.—Bathurst Free Press, Dec. 17.
The Southern Gold Fields, Sec. 6.—Mr.
Peckham, of Tar-rago, came into town with a sample of gold obtained
from Mr, Cooper's estate, Carrawang Flat, near Lake George. It is coarse
