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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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Things in general are much depressed here just now, owing not to the want of a fair average yield of gold, so much, as to an underhand and legalised system of victimising, commonly yelopt, getting into debt and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The amount of gold-dust delivered by the escorts from our gold fields during the quarter ended the 31st of March, has been 33,870 ozs. 14 dwts. l8 grs. This is a great falling off in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the last week we have had all sorts of weather—hot, cold, wet, dry, frosty, and windy. On Saturday afternoon we had a "delectable swizzle," the rain came down in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There must have been some disarrangement in the mails lately, as last week's Express was not delivered here until yesterday (Tuesday) instead of Sunday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather is now assuming a more settled appearance, but already wo can [?]nuff the [?]hi[?]l and bracing air of approaching winter, particularly the mornings and evenings. For some years past we have had less…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since my last we have had a very great deal of rain here, but, notwithstanding, business is much improved. The amount of gold forwarded by recent escorts has reached the very respectable quantity of 2100 ounces…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since the establishment of the European and Australian Royal Mail Company we have, on several occasions, invited attention to that part of their arrangements by which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following regulations referring to the transmission of gold dust or cash by escort to and from the Mint, to take effect from 1st May, 1857, are published for general information:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DEAR SIRS—Here I am again, and [?] from the Rocky making my bow to your Maitland readers, and only preface my letters, of which you shall have a few occasionally, by a quotation from my favourite…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In pursuance of the provisions contained in the Act of the Local Parliament, 20 Victoria, No. 29, intituled, "An Act to amend the laws relating to the gold fields," his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Nelsen Examiner of the 15th April, says—Nine weeks ago intelligence readied Nelson that gold existed in Massacre Bay in sufficient quantities to pay those who sought…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From a gentleman who is a resident on the Rock River gold field we have obtained a few interesting particulars which we now lay before our readers. He has informed us that on Tuesday last there were four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday morning I visited the New diggings opened by Mr. Kearney on Spring Creek. There were aboot 140 men working, most of them sinking shafts, which appeared to reach…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Lund Hill Colliery is situate in the neighbourhood of Barnsley, at about a mile from the Wombwell Station of the South Yorkshire Railway. The pit,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DEAR SIRS,—Since my last communication, so very little has occurred of real interest, that it is scarcely worth recording; but as I promised to write occasionally, I do not like to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN—My last letter to you depicted a state of great [?]tagnation in the mining interests of the Rocky River, and I fear this escort, which leaves here to-morrow, will bear out the fact that less gold has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE give the utmost prominence to the important information received on Sunday by post, from the Hanging Rock and Peel Diggings. If the successful hit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Writing from the Hanging Rock, on the 18th ultimo, and again on the 23rd, our correspondent says:—After an absence of eleven months, I have returned to these diggings once more, and I find every thing almost in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The escort has at length arrived, after a very wear[?]some jouruey. They have been the almost incredible period of a month on the road, up and down. At Singleton alone they were detained for ten days, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN—The Escort left here last Tuesday, with, I believe, 2500 oxs of gold-dust; although this is nearly a month's work, still it evinces far less [?]ing off than I supposed, which you will no doubt agree to when I…
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