Emu Creek Gold-field
APRIL 3. -- The weather during the past week has been dry, warm, and genial -- more like summer than autumn. Numbers of our population are fast leaving for…
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Mining & the mines, 1871
66 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 4
Emu Creek Gold-field
APRIL 10.--The weather keeps dry and exceedingly warm, more so, indeed, than during the past summer. The oppressive heat, however, indicates a speedy fall of rain…
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APRIL 17.--The weather keeps gonial and warm during the day, and the nights are cold, but clear and beautiful. Influenza is very prevalent, and scarcely anyone has escaped…
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IF all who leave the coast for the Gold-Fields could understand what they must encounter in the way of exposure, privation, and the diseases growing out of those causes, the first cager…
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APRIL 24.-- The weather continues gonial-- the days bright and warm, and the nights clear and cold. The provident diseases-- influenza, bronchitis, &c.-- are rather increasing, and nearly…
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THE long expected change for the better has come at last and the confidence of those who, despite exciting telegrams of new rushes, and depressing letters to Sydney…
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MAY 1.--Mining mutters are slowly progressing The reols are by all accounts improving. The Outward Bound (Robinson's lease) will retort today; the result premises to be very remunerative,…
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MAY 8.--The weather has been very pleasant during the week, but since yesterday rain has set in and continues at intervals. There has been some little excitement this…
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MAY 15.--This week we have had a continuous fall of heavy rain. Mining matters are of a passive nature. The leads already opened. like the Soven-mile and…
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A lamentable coal-pit explosion took place on February 24, in the Rhondda Valley, Glamorganshire, a district by no means unknown in the annals of this class of…
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WE have just received a copy, of the Mineral Statistics of Victoria for the year ending 1870, and know not how sufficiently to express our admiration of the value and…
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MAY 22.-- The weather for a week past has been bright and genial, but it has changed again into rain, and by the heavy clouds gathering and the steadiness of the downpour it is difficult to…
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MAY 29.-- The past weak has been one of heavy rain and severe cold, and the roads lending to the town are getting in a very bad state. Mining affairs continue active. Alluvial ground…
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JUNE 4.-- The weather has been very pleasant during the past week-- bright days and frosty nights. The roofs lately crushing are mostly turning…
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JUNE 12.--Our escort lust Saturday was a very small one, because very little had been retorted during the last fortnight. The machines engaged have had to deal with large lots of quartz, and…
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JUNE 19.--The rain has at last come, and since Saturday night it has continued to pour down heavily. Mining ventures improve; and matters…
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SIR Henry Barkly seems likely to have had forced upon him a civil war soon after his assuming the Governorship of the Cape colony. The following account is from the Cape Argus,…
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JUNE 26.--The weather is still wot and intensely cold. The roads are, however, not bad yet, and carriers and the mails arrive, via the south, without any actual hindrance. But our mails suffer…
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JULY 3. -- Rain and cold reign supreme, and the roads are becoming impassable. Mr. Richard Noonan, gold miner, has been lost since last Monday week, and diligent scarab has…
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JULY 10.--The Golden Point Reef is turning out over two ounces to the ton. The newly taken up area on O'Brion's shows well also. O'Brion's prospectors' last retort of 218 tons turned out…
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