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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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The Rocky River correspondent of the Armidale, Express, under date December 30, reports that the diggers had just commenced work, after the Christmas holidays. A reported rash to the hill above Tipperary Gully, proved unfounded, Mr. Sly's shaft in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With us the "Old Year" departed and its successor was welcomed with all the fun and frolic generally observed upon such occasions, and with many bumpers qua[?]ed to the toast—"May the last be the worst, and the present the best year of our lives!"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A dearth of any interesting news was the cause of my silence last week. For the past ten days the weather has been unbearably hot—plenty of thunder and vivid forked lightning,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This week there has been a rush to the the ridge on the northern side of Sydney Flat, in consequence of a party having bottomed a shaft there at a depth of 14 feet, where six inches thick of washing stuff was obtained, which was rumoured would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The last few days, without exception, have been the warmest we have experienced this summer, the sun setting and the moon rising in larid magnificence. The rush to the north of Sydney Flat I fear has turned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From the quantity of washing-stuff carted to the river within the last week, I should say that our next escort will show some improvement. This week I have no mining intelligence worth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chinamen seem to be the most fortunate here at present one party of them, on Sydney Flat, were observed last week ([?]withstanding their attempts at secresy) to have washed 6 ozs. of gold out of nine buckets of stuff. I need scarcely add that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday afternoon a thunderstorm passed over the Rocky, followed by some heavy showers of rain-welcome in many respects, particularly for having allayed the dense clouds of dust that continually arose from the parched earth, and rev reviving the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The favourable accounts received during last week from Boonoo Boonoo have caused a regular exodus from the Rocky to that gold field. On Monday and Tuesday the roads were crowded by parties leaving. A number of horse and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The depressed state of the Rocky for months past (principally caused by the want of rain) was sure to operate against it as soon as a now gold field was discovered in the Northern districts. It is, therefore, not surprising that the glowing accounts received…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →His Excellency the Governor General, with the advice of the Excecutive Council, has been pleased to appoint Thomas Digby Miller, Esquire, to be the Gold Receiver at Mudgee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Excellency the Governor General, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to make the following appointments:- Harold M'Lean, Esq., to be the Commissioner in charge of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since writing my last have again visited the gold fields, and am happy to inform you the influx of miners daily increases; the number at present actually engaged at mining operations [?] estimate at 350 last Sunday. The Commissioner's men arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GENTLEMEN—I wrote you on Monday last to let you know the excitement that was prevailing at that time on the Rocky. Now, Messrs. Editors, the sign of the case is altered; for on Tuesday last Mr. Giles, [?]nnkeeper, Sydney Flat, left for Tenterfield or…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It is impossible to write anything agreeable or exciting in these depressing times, as the departures for Tenterfield hav e continued daily since my last, and seem likely to continue till I have nothing to write about, seeing that the Rocky has become…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[The following, from the Moreton Bay Courier, is not, it will be observed, so late as teh news we have previously published, but gives further particulars.] "We (Courier) have received a specimen of the Boonoo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It is now, and has for the last three hours been, raining "heavens hard;" and there is every prospect of its continuance. Your readers must no doubt have heard or read of the exodus from the Rocky to Tenterfield. It was true; but they are now…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Notwithstanding the rush to Boonoo Boonoo, the Peel River and Hauging Diggings are still maintaining their ground, and continue to yield remunerative wages to every one there. The long continuance of dry weather has enabled the diggers to get…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN.—No doubt many of your readers may be interested in having authentic information respecting this so-called gold field, and as I have sojourned here for a week, for their information I most unhesitatingly pronounce it the most…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A gentleman connected with a mercantile house in Brisbane, has favored us (says the Moreton Bay Free Press of the 13th instant), with the subjoined letter from a well-informod Maryland correspondent, whose visits to…
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