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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
216 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 11
We learn from parties who have purchased gold from diggers who have come down from the Hanging Rock that the yield there continued good, notwithstanding the wet weather…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The accounts which have last reached us from the Victoria gold diggings do not at all fall short in interest or excitement, in comparison with those previously received from the same…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The weather has been very severe. A great deal of rain and snow has fallen here, but during the last few nights we have had heavy frosts. The diggers have been rather downhearted, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Very little additional news from these diggings has reached Maitland since our last. A letter dated Hanging Rock, August 11th, says "I have nothing of any consequence to relate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUG. 9.—The numbers at our various diggings are gradually increasing, though many as yet have not taken out claims; for Major's Creek between three and four hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At length a few letters from this quarter have reached Maitland. The only one that we have been able to trace out, as containing any notice of the Bingera diggings, is one from Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There have been for some days continued rain, and on the 13th we had a fall of snow. The diggings keep going on, nevertheless, and some get well paid…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No further letters have been received in Maitland from Bingera or the neighbourhood, the Hunter being so high as to stop the mails from above Singleton. We have been obliged by our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A double mail arrived on Sunday night, but we have not received any letters from beyond Tamworth. One letter, dated Carroll, Namoi River, from a gentleman who left Maitland about a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →August 16.—Rain, snow, and wind have been the order of the day for the last fortnight. All communication with other towns is stopped; and it is impossible to stir out of doors without…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Official intelligence was on Thursday received in Sydney with reference to the progress of discovery in this golden locale. Hundreds of persons were daily arriving, and about forty drays…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have some further information from these diggings, obligingly communicated by parties who came down to attend the Circuit Court. There is a special coach provided by contract by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUGUST 24.—It is I believe exactly 12 months to-day since the first parcel of gold was sent donn from the Araluen. It may be worth while to see what we have been doing during the last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ne mail arrived from beyond Singleton on Sunday evening. Last night the northern mails from as far as Drayton came down, but we recived no letters from the direction of Barraba…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUGUST 29.—We have had of late nothing but continuous rains; the whole district is again flooded, the roads impassable, and the rivers and creeks so swollen that it is even dangerous to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At this place and the adjoining places on the river, very few are at work and cannot possibly do so, the river being still very high; persons are obliged to cross in boats, the owners of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the motion of Mr J. Macarthur a committee of the Legislative Council was appointed on Tuesday last "to inquire into the system now in force for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—I write you these few lines to inform you that I left the Hanging Rock diggings, and arrived here last Monday; we commenced digging on Tuesday, and worked hard to Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday evening the gold escort arrived from T[?]mworth, bringing no less than 1[?]68 Ounces 11 dwts. 14 grs. So far as we could learn, most of this was Hanging Rock gold, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It may be remembered that the copy of a memorial to his Excellency the Governor General, signed by T. S. Mort and other Sydney capitalists, suggesting certain alterations in the…
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