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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
94 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 5
I have no great faith in those modern prophets who have predicted a general drought, for since my last we have been favoured with forty-eight hours of almost constant rain. On Monday evening a thunderstorm commenced, accompanied by heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The last week has been a medley of clouds variours, drizzling rains, Scotch mists, obscured sun by day and darkened moon by night—in short a fac simile of a Boonoo Boonoo dimate: and while writing this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After various changes, the wind has returned to its old quarters, east and south-west, accompanied with occasional showers. In digging matters I have little to report. A few parties are earning wages below Brown's paddock; Rock's party seem to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our correspondent seneds us the following news of an important discovery at these diggings:- To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury. "GENTLEMEN.—A very rich quartz reef has been discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Indications of approaching winter are now becoming very visible. Huge p[?]es of firewood are In course of being stacked around many a frugal dwelling, and to all appearance the good housewives of the Rocky are determined this season…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Those who pretend to be good Judges of the weather give it as their opinion that severe frosts are generally followed hy heavy rains. If such doctrines hold good, we may soon expect wet weather, as the frosts of the last week have been so intense…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The opinions which have been from time to time for some years past, expressed through the columns ofthe Herald as to the extraordinary extent of the coal und iron mines of New South Wales and the value of their products were corroborated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It was generally supposed that gold in paying quantitles was not to be found in the bed of the Rocky beyond the lower end of Brown's paddock, but for some time past a large number of Chinese have been working…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A regular rush has set in to [?]he flats below the surface diggings on Mount Welsh. The sinking is from 23 to 30 feet. The lead of gold seems to be contined to a narrow strip. The majority of our digges are sinking there at present. Those who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The rush to Mount Welsh promises to be the most important6 that we have had for some time past. All those who bottomed on the channel have got payable stuff. About 100 shafts are in course of being put down, so that by next week I shall be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the S. M. Herald of Tuesday, appears a variety of particulars, quoted by the San Francisco Herald, from papers from Puget Sound to the 9th April, and derived from other sources also…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather during the last week has been changeable, and bitterly cold Some rain has fallenn, but nothing of importance to benefit those whose constant cry is, water, water. The intense cold of the nights must hare compelled many to invest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is stated by the Daily Alta C[?]lifornia, of 18th May, that, by the steamer Panama, an extra of the Paget Sound Herald, of the 11th, has been received, containing further important intelligence from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Those who had a suffcient stock of patience and perseverance to remain at the new rush to Mount Welsh seem now to be reaping the fruit of these two great requisited in a gold digger's life, one party gettting as high as 2 ozs. to the load. The Messsrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GLADSTONE, PORT CURTIS[?] 13th July, 1858.—About seven or eight months ago, a gentleman who had been travelling in this district, stated that he had found gold in the neighbourhood of the fitzroy River. This report…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Since my last the weather was mild until Monday night, when several heavy rolls of thunder were heard in the distance. Since then several showers of rain and snow have fallen, but (like all our former wet weather) I fear the present will be driven away…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In connection with the new regulations for the gold fldds, published in another column, this morning, we may mention that the following circular letter will be addressed to the Gold Commissioners:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Excellency the Governor-General, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to establish the following Regulations, under the provisions of the Act of Parliament,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The regulations re-published in our last issue, for the management of the gold fields, must obviously be the result of a great amount of labor and thought in the preparation. They provide…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I have no particular fresh news in digging matters to report since, my last. The late escort showed some improvement, and from the perseverance and determination with which digging operations are carried on a Presom—many partics working by…
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