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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
189 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 10
At foot I send you a copy of a memorial sent by the committee appointed at the meeting of the 15th February to his Excellency the Governor General. You will perceive that its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A great deal has been said and written about the Hanging Rock, and the last escort testified it had good foundation. Several parties in the vicinity of Nuggetty Gully did well last week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The great bulk of the population have left for the Ovens or the other Victoria diggings, so that as may be expected there is little to be said about mining operations. The Lower Turon is almost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FEBRUARY 23.—A great number of persons paid licenses this month, who had good or promising claims, and they did not like to leave them; in many instances they have now wrought…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From the lower diggings the accounts are becoming every day more favorable, and some of those who have been most fortunate here, have left for there. This is the best field that I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. BEIT'S plan for managing the gold fields of the colony, and raising a revenue from the gold produced, is detailed in a letter which he handed in to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →List of consignments of gold by the ship Carnatic, Captain Pope, which sailed yesterday for London.:— Ozs. dwts. grs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A gentleman just down from the Rocky River diggings reports, we regret to hear, several robberies by a gang of four or five bushrangers. On Sunday, the 20th February, Mr. Solomon's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Escort reached Maitland on Sunday night last, after two mishaps. When about 35 miles this side of Tamworth, the axle of the escort coach broke, and the gold had, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MARCH 2.—A general meeting of the miners of the Turon district was yesterday convened by notice from Mr. Wm. Maxwell, to hear read the answer from the Colonial Secretary, and also to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have no news by this mail from our correspondents at the Northern Diggings. We were yesterday shown a nugget weighing upwards of 13 ounces, procured by a townsman,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE common interest of the community in the production of gold is beginning to exhibit itself. At first the miners were left to struggle alone as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The dreaded 1st of the month has at last arrived, and in a short time the imperative demands of the commissioner will be made for the license fees, with the alternative of going to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Economist of the 25th of September we showed, by reference to the trade accounts, that while our imports of gold had so rapidly increased during the present year those of most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Many people are leaving these diggings, preferring the nuggets of the Hanging Rock to the steady remunerative working among fine gold at the Rocky River. Those, however, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Up to this date four hundred licenses have been issued on Bell's flat, and last month a good many half-licenses, had been taken out, the total number was not more than 530. This does not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday, the deputation appointed at the public meeting held on the 8th instant, at the Royal Hotel, for the purpose of considering the recently passed Act of Council for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOFALA, MARCH 11.—The early part of this month has passed off in perfect quiet; prior to the eighth mostly all the diggers had taken out their licenses, hoping that when the Legislature…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our numbers here are steadily increasing, several parties having arrived during the past week. The lower end of Oakanville Creek seems to be the favorite spot selected by the new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday evening the escort from the northern gold fields arrived in Maitland, after an interval of eighteen days, bringing the largest amount that has yet come from thence…
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