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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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The following is an extract from a letter written by Mr. William Blackman, of Mudgee, to a mercantile house in Sydney:—"A new digging was discovered on Friday last just below…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In obedience to my instructions, I proceeded on Saturday, May 10th, to Combing, where I met Mr. Hargraves, who showed me about four ounces of gold, said to have been procured at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Several Maitland parties have returned from the Turon within the last week, and from them we have heard accounts of the present condition of the Turon diggings, agreeing with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—As you are aware, I proceeded, in obedience to the desire of his Excellency the Governor, expressed in your letter No. 51-268, and dated 21st May, to ascertain by actual survey,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHEEP STATION POINT, FEBRUARY 12.—Last night, about 8 o'clock, an old man walking along just below my tent fell down a pit, the depth about thirty feet, with bag and bundle;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TURON RIVER, FEBRUARY 17.âAnimation begins to assume its wonted vigour again on the Turon. At the race, below Harbottle's, all the parties are busy at work; this, however, is the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About a fortnight since we published an extract of a letter from Messrs. Dunbar and Sons, of London, to their correspondents here, Messrs. Smith, Campbell, and Co., advising the sale of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →UPPER WALLABY, 19TH FEB.—Last evening we returned from the neighbourhood of the Dirt Hole Creek, after a laborious and fruitless search after gold for better than a fortnight, during…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Since our last we have not received much additional information from the Hanging Rock diggings; but we have the pleasure to lay before our readers the following account, from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24.—The last few days have been unusually cool and pleasant for this period of the year—an invigorating breeze mi[?]igating the intensity of the noon-day sun, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At present the liveliest portion of the Turon is the race below Harbottle's store, the miners of which locality are now receiving the benefits of what by some was denominated a profitless…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FEBRUARY 28.—In my last communication I have referred to a new gold field which has been discovered and is now being worked at the Little River, near Braidwood, and in the immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The population of this creek and neighbourhood is fast increasing, and I should say now musters upwards of fifteen hundred. The water is just as speedily decreasing, and what remains…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The diggings out here are proceeding much as usual, and a few straggling parties continue to do well. A large party of newly arrived Californians, who appear to be quite up to their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHEN our gold fields were discovered, a considerable drain of the population of the neighbouring colonies into this was generally looked for. But this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold, from being found in its metallic state, is always, even to those acquainted with finding it in its deposits, a subject of much exaggeration, to many times its real amount; and even…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We learn from parties who have just returned from the Dirt-hole Creek that there really were many rich holes discovered and worked there, some of them still yielding large returns, but at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are enabled to state that despatches have been received at the Colonial Office by the Severn even more than confirmatory of the public accounts by the same steamer, as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →UPPER WALLABY, MARCH 9.—The weather still continues fine, although on Sunday morning a little rain fell, but nothing to affect the river in the slightest degree. The holders of bed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →UPPER WALLABY, MARCH 12.—Up to this evening the weather has been fine, but it has now commenced raining, with the wind east-south-east, and there is a very fair prospect of…
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