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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
94 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 5
The steamer City of Sydney arrived last night from Port Curtis, as you will see by to-day's papers, but the intelligence she brings is not looked upon as quite so satisfactory as might have been anticipated. True, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Below we give the despatch from Captain O'Connell, laid upon the table of the Legislative Council yesterday by the Solicitor General; and a number of letters which have been handed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In our supplement will be found all the additional information given in Wednesday's Herald, from letters brought by the City of Sydney's mail. We now give all the further information published in Thursday's Herald,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WILKINSON'S PATENT.—There is every probability that in a few weeks Mr. Wilkinson's new method of extracting gold from quartz, will receive a fair trial. The works on the White Flat are proceeding rapidly, and it…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rumours were current in the city yesterday afternoon of important intelligence having been received by the Government, relative to the gold fields at Port Curtis. Upon enquiry, we find that the facts are these: Information…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—I cannot delay the request of an insertion of these few lines, as a warning to those who have not already overstepped the bounds of caution in hastily visiting this reported gold field. That there has been gold got here is but too true, but, as to a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We (S. M. Herald) have been favored by the sight of two letters from a person—the son of an old colonist—who has settled at Vancouver Island. The first of these was written at Victoria. Vancouver Island, and was dated 7th June. Among…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →According to the latest intelligence there are already 1500 or 2000 miners at the Indigo, and the number increases every hour. There is thus reason to believe that the locality will be thoroughly prospected, and from the results obtained, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wonga Wongo, steamer, arrived from Rockhampton this morning, at six o'clock, with 245 passengers—among them our special correspondent. The diggings had proved a complete failure, and vessels were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIRâAs I have no doubt the Government of New South Wales must be anxious for information from this spot, I have determined upon sending in to-morrow morning by Mr. Inspector…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In our supplement will be found the most important of the official letters received from the Fitz Roy, by the Wonga Wonga. The Herald of Wednesday contained also several additional letters, from diggers and others;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—I do myself the honor to report that, In obedience to your minute of 27th ultimo, herewith returned, and to subsequent verbal Instructions, 1 caused to bo shipped by the Wonga Wonga steamer, which left yesterday for Keppel Bay, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For a long time it has been believed that there was no payable gold in the gullies of the Rocky, which was considered an extraordinary anomaly in this gold-field, but lately the beds of several little tributary creeks and blind gullies have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This gold field is situate, as our readers have been informed, on the head waters of the Clarence River, the exact locality being M'Leod's Creek, some fourteen miles from the Clarence Inn. In the Herald of Thursday is a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following official correspondent on the recent discovery of a Quartz Reef, at the lead of Spring Creek, Rurrondong, has been obligingly handed to us, for the information of the public, by the Hon. the Secretary for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather since my last has been very fine, and the late rains, with the warm [?]un, have caused vegetatoin to proceed with great rapidity. The country is clothed in a verdant velvet mantle, and the gardens are holding forth a rich promise of an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It will be remembered that the "special commissioner" of the S. M. Herald on the Fitz Roy gold fields returned to Sydney as soon as he found the field a failure. He has, it appears,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Everything here remains in statu quo, and but for the arrivals and departures there would be a complete stagnation. Nothing doing—n[?] news—no money stirring—all at the very last point of hopelessness…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The late successful diggings in the blind gullies have put the miners on the alert, and nearly all the likely looking little creeks are now being prospected, but I have not as yet learned that any decided hit has been made, though prospects have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Affairs in Victoria, I am obliged to say, have been growing from bad to worse for the last five weeks. Everything has been flattened out—sub-ided—wilted. We have a town of stores, filled with goods, and few to…
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