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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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The short but heavy falls of rain which accompanied the thunderstorms of last week will almost to a certainty ensure us full-eared wheat, plump corn, and thumping murphies, provided that we are blessed with a favourable harvest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather still continues pleasant, with occasional threats to rain, such as hollow winds, dark clouds, a peal of thunder, the curling of the smoke around the chimney tops, and the complaints of our peripatetic barometers—those afflicted with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following letter, on the subjct of the projected use of Australian coal by the Scinde Railway Company, is extracted by the Herald from the Times:- Sir—My attention has been called to the following statement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The reports here last Saturday from Ironbark are very exciting. Gold, is said to have bein discovered in very payable quantities in shallow sinking. Some large nuggets are also said to have been found near the surface. Rich, quartz reefs have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather during the last week was warm and agreeable, and very favourable for harvest operations. On Sunday and Monday we had some thunderstorms, accompanied by slight showers of rain and high wind…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Armidale Express of the 19th contains a description of the Puddledock diggings, the result of the observations and enquiries of one of the proprietors during a late visit to that gold field…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is the report adopted by the shareholders of this Company, at the half-yearly meeting held on Monday last:- The directors have the honor to report the progress of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Melbourne Argus, of the 25th January, gives, in its mail summary, the following brief amount of the present state of the Victorian Gold Fields:- Without any very splendid or startling finds, either of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Fisher, of this town, returned from Ironbark quartz reef during the past week, and left there on last Sunday week. He states that the road to the reef after you pass Barraba is in a very bad state, and nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather has been very tempestuous for the past week—vivid lightning, awful thunder, and pouring rain daily; and if the diggers cannot get gold now, it is evident that they have no auriferous dirt to wash…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The weather has somewhat cleared, and the new moon of Sunday last appears to be the harbinger of a more co[?] temperature. We do not remember having experienced such a deluge of rain for four years. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Last week we had our share of the very heavy rains which seem to have been so general over all the country. On Tuesday evening and Wednesday forenoon it seemed as if the windows of heaven were opened, as the rain came down in torrents, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Since my last communication we have had more rain, and although the fall was gentle, yet, being continuous for thirty hourse without cessation, it had the effect of rising the river to an unprecedented height. I hear of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On some of the alluvial leads shafts are sunk to a depth ranging from 300 to 400 feet; while the quartzreefs, lying nearer the surface, have not at present been perpendicularly bored to a greater depth than 80 or 100…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Since the weather has faired, Bowe's Flat has assumed a very animated appearance, clean women and st[?]rdy men walking to and fro during the day, while the long line of lights at night give the place the semblance of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday evening the Landon steamer, chartered by the Directors of the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company, left Sydney, conveying a number of gentlemen, members of the Government and of both houses of the Legislature,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →March 12.—The Premier is to be entertained, this evening, as the guest of the commercial fraternity of Stoney Creek. A procession will be formed, headed by a band of music, &c., to meet the honorable gentleman, on his way out from Lambing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mining news is not quite so satisfactory, as the great scaroity of water on all parts of the diggings has prevented the miners from doing much this week, The weather is most oppressively hot, and water is very scarce…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have had occasional lihgt showers during the week, ending in a more settled state of atmosphere, with every probability of a continuance of fine weather. There is nothing now to report in mining affairs, the great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After a storm comes a calm, and after an unprecedented fall of rain we have so dry a season that it is difficult to get drinking water within three miles of these diggings. Mining operations are comparatively speaking at a stand still, especially with…
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