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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
86 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 5
NEW ENGLAND GOLD FIELDS.—We hear of nothing worthy of remark from either the Rocky or Oban since our last issue. Little in the way of prospecting can be done in such cold weather as we have had during the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have received, under date 15th instant, the following communication from our correspondent at the Hanging Rock:- I am very happy (he says) to inform you that these…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I promised in my last letter to make yon acquainted with "a chapter of wants" in this locality; and at once to plunge into the subject I proclaim want the first, comprised in formation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yesterday we had the pleasure of examining, per favor of Messrs, Dickson and Co., three very beautiful nuggets of gold from the same Peel River quartz vein which recently yielded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →My last letter was regularly posted early this day week, but seems to have been detained somewhere, as it did not appear in Saturday's Express. Since then there is not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We are favoured br Mr Kingsmill with the following letter from his son, Mr. Robert Kingsmill, respecting the success of his party at the new Peel diggings, adverted to in our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We find in the Courier of the Mines the following account of an extraordinary yield of gold on the Little Bendigo Quartz Reef:…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We give below, with much pleasure, a letter from an esteemed correspondent, Mr. J. D. Davies, describing the recent doings at the Hanging Rook and Peel, and giving the latest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since my last letter the weather has improved considerably, and it is to be hoped that our ways, if not our manners, will shortly mend. There are sundry [?] adrift of Chinamen having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN—My last letter gave you a list of complaints, wants, and grievances, which I had not time to finish, so I shall trouble you with one or two more, and then finally close the first for the present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are now blessed with milder weather and a blue sky, and the general toast is—"Long may they last" I am sorry to say that in the new rush on Sydney Flat many of our oldest and most energetic diggers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Respecting this affair, we [?] the following letter in Thursday's Empire, from Mr. Hodgson:- AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL COMPANY…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have lately had a rush of unfortunate creatures, calling themselves "diggers" to this locality, exciting both pity and contempt. However men possessing common sense can leave their houses, and perhaps…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In pursuance of the profilions contained in the Ac of the Local Parliament, 20 Victoria, No. 29, intituled "An Act to amend the laws relating to the Gold Fields," his Excellency the Governor General, with the advice…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Bradford, of the firm of Messrs. Davies and Bradford, called on us yesterday, and favoured [?]with the sight of several beautiful suggests of quartz gold. These were obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday evening last a molancholy occurence took place on the River. A man of color, named Simmons, from Philadelphia, had gone down an old shaft, and was in the act of scraping out some gravel at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To show the profit and loss account of the Rocky Rive diggings lately, I cannot do better than quote the las escort returns—namely 760 o[?], a week. Reckoning as high as 900 diggers, this gives £3 per man a week. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Several times within the last twelve months there have been migrations from our diggings, and at suoh times we were assured that the Rooky was certainly done, and yet the Rocky…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday last a public meeting of the diggers and other residents of these gold fields was held upon Sydney Flat, opposite the Joint Stock Bank, to take into consideration the best…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN—I have intended several times to write to you, but anticipated my return to Maitland would have rendered a communciation useless; Independent of which, there has been such depression of the raining…
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