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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
189 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 10
I do not know, nor have I heard of, any party amongst us who, during the last fortnight, have earned at digging more than ordinary wages, and but one in ten, I am inclined to think, have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE ROCKY RIVER.—me Rocky diggings still preserve the same almost unvarying, remunerating success to those who are sufficiently hardy to endure the cold, and wet weather. Many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The repeated floods render my communication this we[?]k very meagre. The weather is very changeable; frequent showers have fallen; the days are warm, but the nights are cold and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Very little rain has fal[?]en during the past week, not sufficient to impede [?]i[?]ing operations; parties are busily engaged in all directions, in mining, cradling, and s[?]uicing. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As I have lately visited the Rocky River, Bingera, and Wynham's Bingera Spring Creek diggings, I send you the following report. If I intended remaining at the diggings, I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUGUST 2.—The news from Major's Creek is still very encouraging. Those who are not successful there are now the exceptions to the rule. An ounce of gold was the result of one washing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The weather continues exceedingly fine. No rain has fallen since our last communication; consequently there are many diggers b[?]sily at work who were previously unable to mine on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our population has decreased lately in consequence of new diggings having been discovered at a place known as Iron Bark Creek, in the immediate neighbourhood of Barraba, a good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—Having observed that a proposal has been made in the Legislative Council of New South Wales to remit the license fee now charged to persons engaged in searching for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Circumstances have at length brought the spoke of the wheel of fortune to the lowest pitch with us. So we exist, if existence it might be termed, in the consolatory, if not happy state…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The weather, which has been of late unusually fine, has become rather unsettled. R[?]in [?] fallen, but not in large quantities; yet, however small the quantity, it has had the effect o[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It has seldom fallen within my province to relate incidents of cruelty and bloodshed, but from the mysterious disappearance of a Frenchman under very suspicious circumstances, I fear it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is highly gratifying to be able to state that there is a decided improvement, with respect to mining, at this place; the weather is very fine, and every advantage is taken of it. The head…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday evening, the northern gold escort arrived at Maitland, on its way from Tamworth to Sydney, after an interval of five weeks. It brought the following quantities of gold and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUGUST 23.—Two years have elapsed since we became a gold producing district. In that time I fi[?]d the escort and mails have conveyed to Sydney from hence about 81,000 ounces of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The weather has been unusually fine for the season of the year, and although rain threatened to fall the latter part of the week, yet we had no more than a passing shower. The nights are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the Northern Escort the following quantities of gold were yesterday deposited at the Colonial Treasury:- FROM HANGING ROCK AND ROCKY RIVER…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUGUST 29.—A slight impetus has been given to our diggers during the last two days, by the [?]overing of a [?]ch spot of ground on the [?]t bank of Sig Oakey Creek, about two miles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The weather at the beginning of the week was variable. Rain fell heavily on one occasion, which caused the diggers to give up work for a half-day only. The latter part of the week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT will have been seen, from a brief notice which appeared in last Wednesday's Mercury of Governor La Trobe's speech in opening the Legislative…
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