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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
216 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 11
1. With a view to meet the applications of persons and companies desirous of employin[?] capital and machinery in working alluvial go[?] his Excellency the Governor General, with [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →We have not been able to hear of any letters brought down by Thursday evening's mail, which contained information relative to either of the northern diggings. A person who left the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We take the following advertisements from late London papers:- AUSTRALIAN CORDILLERA GOLD AND COPPER MINING COMPANY.—Conducted on the cost-book…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OCT. 5.âThere is a visible decrease in th[?] number of miners at present. The Port Phillip mania is the cause of it; nearly all that ar[?] leaving have been successful diggers, who have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pursuant to notice issued, a public meeting of the miners on the Louisa Creek was held at Mr. D. Moon's, the Great Nuggett Inn, on Saturday last, the 2nd October, to take into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday evening the gold escort, true to time, arrived in Maitland, having brought down 806 ounces, 7 dwts. of gold, and £244 received for license money. So far as we could learn the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OCTOBER 12.—Not more than five hundred licenses have as yet been issued this month, not but that we have plenty of room, and plenty of work too for as many more, if they will pay us…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—Knowing your readiness at all times to allow a space in the columns of your valuable journal for the advocacy of justice, I would beg leave through that medium to ask, whilst the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The considerations which three years ago were almost derided as the probable effects of the increased supply of gold, are now assuming a preponderance over all other subjects. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rather a strong stream of diggers is now coming down the country from the Northern gold fields, principally because of the continued occurrence of heavy showers and wet days at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In a recent number of the Athenoum, there is an elaborate article on the increased supplies of gold, which enters minutely into the statistics of the whole question. The results arrived at differ…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OCT. 13.—STABBING.—On Monday morning last, intelligence was received that a murder had been committed the previous evening, at Berrima Hill. Sergeant Gainer at once proceeded to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The tenders for the conveyance of the Post Office mails, between the undermentioned places, in terms of the advertisement from the Colonial Secretary's Office, dated the 15th July,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The accounts this week from the northern diggings are meagre. At the Hanging Rock it is said heavy rain had again fallen, and the creeks and river Peel were so high that many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OCTOBER 18.—The dulness which has prevailed amongst our digging population, for some months at least, has given place on the approach of fair weather to activity and bustle, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From a conversation we have had with a gentleman who left Bingera on Saturday last we gather that there were then upwards of 200 persons on the gold field. There had been 96…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tambaroura is getting dull, as many of the diggers are leaving for Ophir, the Turon, and the Macquarie, in the hope that as the weather settles the hed cl[?]ims will become workable, at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At a very early period of what may be called the Gold Era in Australia the inhabitants of different localities of the colony, inspired by the sudden discovery of prodigious wealth at Ophir,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday evening the northern gold escort reached Maitland from Tamworth, just one fortnight since the last escort, with an increased amount of gold both from the Hanging Rock and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OCT. 25—On Wednesday last the claim holders of Lucky, Maitland, and Sheepstation points met to consider the desirability of cutting a tunnel through Lucky Point, but the…
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