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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
116 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 6
THE Government will apparently be less successful in the Assembly this session than last, in reference to the Gold Fields Bill. Then all the main provisions passed through the Assembly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Not a few of our readers will hear with astonishment that some five hundred cool miners are about to be imported from the United Kingdom for the benefit of the Australian Agricultural Company, and that the colony will have to pay more than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following letter, respecting the above diggings, received yesterday, has been handed to us (S. M. Herald) for publication:- "Scone, September 16.—Dear Sir—I thought it unless…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →According to notice, a public meeting was held on Thursday evening last, at the School-house, Mount Jones, for the purpose of adopting a petition to Parliament respecting Chinese immigration…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE GHEAT RUSH.—A large meeting was held in Mr. Jones dancing saloon, Spicer's Rush, for the purpose of taking some steps to prohibit the Chinese from working on the ground. Mr. Spicer was appealed to, and he promised not to allow any more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE hear with regret that many of our fellowcitizens, of Newcastle and Maitland, are eagerly plunging into coal mining speculations, on the apparent faith that the breach between the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By a paragraph in one of your late issues, I perceive there were upwards of 900 applications for land under the new lease system, lying in the Crown Lands office at Ballarat. It may very reasonably be supposed that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By way of Melbourne, we have Otago papers to the 7th instant. A correspondent of the Witness writes to that journal from Tuapeka on the 4tb, as follows:- Our operations hitherto have been almost entirely of a shallow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Denison diggings, or rather the quartz reefs in that locality, are causing some stir amongst the miners here, several of whom have already proceeded thither, and others are on the eve of starting Private letters received by some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following regulations for determining the issue of rewards for the discovery of new gold-fields have been established by the Executive Council:- 1. Any person laying claim to a reward for the discovery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →KANGI DIGGINGS,—The news from the gold fields continues good, particularly from the new rush at Kangi. We have heard from various parties that there can be no doubt as to the existence of a vast mine of wealth in that direction. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The sowe what dariag experiment of the co-operative miners in undertaking to open, a coal-fiefd themselves, may now be pronounced to be a signal success. Little more than four weeks have elapsed since the unpleasant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some excitement was felt throughout the city when it became generally known that several miners had been summoned to appear at the Police-office on Saturday, at two o'clock, to answer the charge of unlawfully…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to the late dry weather, mining matters are dull at present. Those parties engaged in washing on the skirts of. Mount Jones are making preparation to reap a harvest the next rain, and in the meantime are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mining community, and all who are interested in the discovery of new gold fields, will hail with pleasure the fact that the reward for such discovery has now assumed a tangible and practical form. One benefit in the present arrangement is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the Black Swan, from Launceston, Captain Wood, we have received the following telegram from Hobart Town, containing three days' later intelligence from New Zealand. We are indebted to Captain Darby, of the City of Hobart, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to the want of water for mining purposes, a du[?]ess pervades every branch of business on this gold field. Money is scarce, and will be until the next heavy rains disintegrate the numerous ounces of gold now disseminated through the large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PEEL RIVER, November 1st—Here we are again, from one extreme to the other. We had enough of rain during the winter, and now we have too little—or rather, I should say, none at all. We have just had one good shower for the last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Escort.âOur escort of Sunday last, took down the small amount of 181 ounces of gold dust, and [?] dry weather continues for another fortnight, I do not expect the next escort will not even reach that number of ounces. The Rocky River…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following interesting papers in reference to the Lachlan Gold-field have been courteously hundred to us (S. M. Herald) for publication by the Honorable Minister for Lands. The latest and most important is the following telegram, received…
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