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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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Since my last letter to you we have had a heavy fall of rain, which has filled many of the large waterholes in the creek, and caused the water to flow plenteously in the gullies, but not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PRIOR to the adjournment of the Council the Government introduced two measures having reference to the gold fields and the revenue to be derived…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A chains of ponds called Lewis' Ponds lies within a few hundred yards of the Louisa Creek, which at this place flows over a very level country. On a slight eminence adjacent to the small…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A party who has just come down from the Peel diggings informs us that the diggers continued to do well, some of the claims on the Black Man's Gully and some other spots…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the summer season is setting in and the creeks are gradually lowering, the eyes of many of the diggers are again directed to Ophir; and it is a prevalent belief the Summerhill Creek will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This creek takes its rise in the table land between the Turon and the Meroo, and after a course of some seven or eight miles joines the Long Creek a mile or two above Point Pure,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hanging Rock diggings, Nov. 6th, 1852. I have the pleasure of informing you that the weather here has to all appearance become set fair. The bed of the Peel River is becoming…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fresh diggings have within the last week been opened with great success at a point immediately below the township at Richardson's Point, and a large extent of ground in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Monday evening the northern gold escort reached Maitland, having left Tamworth on Friday last. The escort brought 647 ounces 16 dwts. of gold from the Hanging Rock and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I am happy to say for some time past we have had very fine weather, which is very advantageous to those concerned in mining operations. The weather is now very hot, and the diggings…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Golden Point, the channel of the river has been deepened, and yesterday nearly a hundred men set in to open the claims on the bar where their working had been interfered with. To-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mail due in Maitland from Tamworth on Thursday evening did not arrive. For the following report on the Peel and Hanging Rock Diggings we are indebted to Mr. Middleton,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When leaving Sofala, en route for Bathurst, I determined to go by the lower road, in order that I might learn what operations were being carried on down the river, and observe the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By Sunday night's mail we did not receive any letters from Bingera. A letter from our Hanging Rock correspondent, and also a communication from Mr. W. T. Boyce, detailing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nov. 13.—The number of diggers on the Summerhill and Lewis Ponds Creeks, have increased since last month by about twenty per cent.; and I have little doubt that the number…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have received no further communication from either the Hanging Rock or Bingera diggings, nor can we hear of any having reached t[?]. Below we give a brief report from an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THURSDAY, NOV. 18.—Dissatisfaction is fast disappearing from amongst the diggers, in consequence of the steadily increasing yields of our diggings; of late I have not heard of a single…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday the fortnightly escort arrived as usual at Maitland from the northern diggings. It brought the following quantities of gold:- Ozs. dwts. grs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bright days and cloudless nights, smiling faces and cheering prospects, are the ruling features of the Turon weather and the Turon diggers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have no additional news from either of the northern gold fields. Below we give from the Sydney Morning Herald a list of the consignees of the gold brought down by the last…
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