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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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UPPER WALLABY ROCKS, DECEMBER 29.—Last week having been Christmas week, but very little work has been done in the way of gold digging, and but very little news of any interest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JAN. 1.—In the Major's Creek, work having been interrupted by Christmas, and the absence of many occupants of claims, there is nothing particular to report. In Bell's Creek, many are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prosperity is said to have visited New South Wales with its crowning disaster, in the discovery of a gold-field vast in extent. There is still room, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →UPPER WALLABY ROCKS, JAN. 2.—I dare say you will think my correspondence for the last few days very short, and perhaps very unsatisfactory, but I assure you it is not my fault. In…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following are the quantities of gold shipped yesterday for London by the ship Kate, Captain Brodrick:- Ozs. dwts. grs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LOWER CROSSING PLACE, JAN. 4, 1852.—Latterly there has been little doing in our neighbourhood, and I have not therefore much to communicate, but as arrivals from Sydney and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The matter most worthy of notice just now at the Turon is the daily arrival from Sydney, Maitland, and other parts of the country, of gold diggers in large [?]umbers—some of them…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JANUARY 10.âYesterday I visited the Louisa, and found the diggers in much better spirits than they have lately been. They had received warning that many of them must turn out and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JANUARY 13TH, 1852.—A melancholy and fatal accident took place here yesterday afternoon to an old and respectable inhabitant, Mr. James Broderick, innkeeper, Paterson River…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The discovery of gold fields in New South Wales will produce very different effects on different minds. Some will lament over it as calculated to introduce…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—I beg to forward you a sample of scale gold procured from the Swamp Oak Creek, distant about fifteen miles from Tamworth. As, however, you have had in your possession gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RICHARDSON'S POINT, JANUARY 18, 1852.— Almost all the parties about here are doing very well. Mr. Solomon's party the first day after opening a claim took 1½ oz. of gold, and have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BY a letter from an intelligent correspondent published in our last number, it appears that gold has been found in the Liverpool Plains and New England…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JANUARY 24.—About 1500 licenses have been issued, which is an increase of 200 on those taken up last month. Mr. Maclean relinquished his duties here on the 15th instant, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN—During the four months over which the survey in which I am still engaged has is extended, I have occasionally seen, or have been informed respecting various opinio[?]s,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE have seen a letter from a gentleman residing at Tamworth, dated 24th January, in which the writer states that a "remunerative gold field" had at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MONDAY, JANUARY 26.—Yesterday afternoon a companion thunder storm to the terrific one described in my last, burst suddenly upon us, accompanied by a violent fall of hail-stones the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By the present mail we have communications nearly a fortnight later regarding the Australian gold fields. The last were to the 25th June, and these are to the 7th July. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There is no longer any room to doubt that gold in considerable, if not large quantities, has been discovered on the surface of the ground in the district of Bathurst in Australia. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It an earthquake had devastated the region of the Turon, its effects could scarcely have been more disastrous than those occasioned by the floods of the past week. On Sunday, the 25th…
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