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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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Since the return of sunshine and dry weather, a steady and progressive improvement in Turon affairs appears to have taken place. The one great object of the population, the pursuit of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. J. Wyld, Geographer to her Majesty, has just published a pamphlet, entitled "Notes on the Distribution of Gold throughout the World." The following passages will, we hope, induce our…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →RICHARDSON'S POINT, MARCH 14.—Having had occasion to visit Richardson's Point last evening, I endeavoured to glean all the information I could respecting the diggings there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WITHIN the last few weeks the Banks have materially restricted their advances on gold, and also on wool and tallow, and it has been commonly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have intelligence from the Dirt Hole Creek and Stockyard diggings, from which we select the following particulars. Water is becoming so very scarce hundreds will shortly be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DEVIL'S HOLE CREEK, MARCH 21.—I have the painful duty to write about the melancholy accident which happened here on Monday last to Mr. John Long, son of Mr. Benjamin Long,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MONDAY, MARCH 22.—This unlucky gold field and its township has again been visited by a recurrence of its bane—a tempestuous and overwhelming flood. The river, in one night and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MARCH 26.—Since the creek has lowered most of the machinery has been recovered, and will soon be in working trim, when it is to be hoped that Samuels and M'Intosh will show to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To estimate the pecuniary loss to the Turon diggers, of such floods as the last and the previous one, is impossible, but some idea may be formed of it by taking a stroll along the river…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Excellency th[?] Governor General has been pleased, with the advice of the Executive Council, to direct that the following consolidated and amended code of regulations for the management…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →I have little to commmunicate to you this time, on account of the generality of the diggers being busily engaged in bailing the water out of their claims, and digging drains to carry the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following are the amounts of gold shipped by the Agricola, which sailed for London yesterday; and by the Thomas King, which is expected to sail for Manila this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE government have published for general information a "consolidated and amended code of regulations for the management of the gold fields,"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →UPPER WALLABY, APRIL 7.—On Monday evening a very serious thunderstorm passed over here, and set all the bed claimants quaking again, it did not however prove of long continuance,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following extract from a letter from a Turon miner refers to a further discovery of dry diggings on the hill opposite Ration Hill and Pennyweight Flat, on the opposite side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHEEPSTATION POINT, 11TH APRIL, 1852— Huzza, huzza, came from about two hundred voices on a hill opposite to Thompson's Point, or Ration Hill, as I was crossing Oakey Creek on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →UPPER WALLABY—Yesterday we had a mizzling rain here the greater part of the aft[?]rnoon, and nearly the whole of last night the rain was falling, but not sufficiently heavy to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I did not send you a report last week on account of the diggers being busy cleaning out their claims after the rain, some of which had a great deal of top earth washed into them…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BELL'S CREEK.—The private land on Bell's Flat is being worked to great advantage to the holders of claims. Mr. Hawker, a relative of the owner of the property, has issued a code of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Devil's Hole Creek, April 18, 1852. HUNTER'S POINT.—The diggings on this point are progressing fast; the majority of the diggers here are doing a fair thing towards…
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