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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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Another year of our history is completed this d[?], and in accordance with our usual practice we propose taking a glance at the principal events of interest connected with our gold fields…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?]ngin[?] Rock, Saturday, Dec. 31, 1853. A [?] h[?] been issued by Captain Price, [?]tati[?] [?]t the Cordillera company's diggings will [?]e opened to the public till further…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I hasten to inform you of a most important discovery that has been made in t[?]is district, in the neighbourhood of the Bald Hills. One of the richest quartz veins I suppose that was ever…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notwithstanding the number of arrivals of late, men are in great request. Labourers cannot be obtained. The wages, with license paid, is £3 per week per man. A great many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I have just now returned from the Buckland River, and so well satisfied with the success of parties with whom I am acquainted, that I am at this moment loading drays for that locality…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At length these diggings are beginning to assume something of the appearance of some of our older brethren. A Turonite or Bendigonian, finding himself suddenly transplanted to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The whole of the main creek is being well sluiced by a number of parties. Every available piece of sluicing ground in this creek is taken up, and those situations which were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have [?]ad a slight [?]all of rain since our last report, which put a [?]top to mining operations fur one day only. No damage was sustained by the rain, and on the following day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The important discovery of a prolific vein o[?] gold at Tambaroora has and is continuing to attract considerable numbers of our population to that quarter. The reports thence are highly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Christmas and New Year's gambols do not seem to be over yet, for on Thursday last there was a great muster on the Swamp, of gay folk, diggers, and others, to witness various…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since my last, a large addition to our population has been made, and ground which was formerly passed over as worthless, is now proved to be very rich; and I am of opinion that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There has been a ridge just, discovered on the side of Oakanville Creek, which will pay well for working. Greer's party got [?]ut of this ridge, together with other gold, a nugget…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An individual by the name of John Pembroke has been fully committed to take his trial at the ensuing Bathurst Assizes tor an attempt to commit a rape on a child sjven years of age,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The western diggings are daily becoming of more importance than ever; the diggers visiting them have of late been very successful. The Maitland Bar, Tambaroora, Louisa Creek, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WHEN shortly before the Legislative Council adjourned there were some papers laid on the table having reference to Sir Roderick Murchison's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOFALA, FEB. 8.—The American party at Paterson Point are only waiting the arrival of their machinery to commence operations. Here I may observe as an instance of the richness of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Friday night last one of the most terrific thunder storms we have ever witnessed passed over the rock, and lasted for several hours. The lightning was forked and very vivid, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The news we continue to receive from the new diggings at the Woolshed Creek is of a satis[?]actory nature. During the week, numbers have arrived from Sydney and other places, and are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Whilst the m[?]rity of p[?]sons [?]igging on Moore's Ridge have been doing wed, there have been several blank holes. Not withstanding this, the greatest perseverance is shown in sinking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The decision c me to by the Government relative to the water company taking water for s[?]cing purposes from the Dungowan Creek is most fair and impartial; for wh[?]ist it grands…
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