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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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No. 1.—Locality: Kirk[?]onnell.—Description: The Crown lands within the following boundaries:—Commencing on the Sydney and Bathurst Road, where the Diamond Swamp Creek crosses that road, and bounded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We have been favoured with the following extract from a letter respecting the Lachlan. It bears date 27th December, 1861, and is written by a gentleman of considerable experience on other Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Via Melbourne, we have news from Dunedin to the 2'st ultimo The papers came by the steamer Omeo, which brought at same time, on freight, 16.129 ozs. 3 dwts l8 grs. of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining op[?] during the past week have been almost suspended—the [?] like Old Uncle [?] having laid down the "shovel and the hoe," in order to enjoy the festivities of the season. those whose business…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On New Year's Day the widow of the late John Connor was presented with a purse containing £35 8s. being the balance of the amount collected for her relief, after deducting the expenses of the funeral, and also some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the Aldinga, via Melbourne, we (S. M. Herald) have papers to th 27th ultimo from Otago. We quote as follows from the Otago Daily Times:- That journal of the 27th says:—The escort arrived in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An accident, which may be attended with serious consequences, happened to a little girl, the daughter of a Mrs. Burns, on Tuesday last. The mother, who resides on the river below Maitland Point, on her way up to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The first half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Tomago Coal Mining Company, was held at the office of the Company, Spring-street, yesterday, at three o'clock, J. D. M'Lean in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →During the last six months our export trade has been remarkably languid, in consequence of the strike at all the large collieries, which took place on the 19th August, both proprietors and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRUTALITY.—On Saturday night last some person unknown had the ferocious cruelty to inflict a deep inolsion into the head of a mare, the property of Mr. Jonathan Ballen. It is believed that a tomahawk was used on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is not an uncommon thing, latterly, to hear persona who have accumulated mulley, by saving habits, complain that there are few, if any, opportunities now for investing money to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is somewhat remarkable how very widespread we have latterly found the distribution of gold to be. The most surprising of all the late discoveries has probably boen the finding of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The "Great Northern Tunnel," Mount Welsh, has at length pierced through the granite wall which, for five or six hundred feet, appears to bound the gold-bearing channel on the Northern side of that once-famed [?]ill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Considerable interest has been excited in Sydney during the last few weeks by the receipt of a quantity of copper ore from Rockhampton. A portion was sent home in the La Hogue,of which a sample was analysed in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A farewell dinner was given to Mr. W. Cleghorn, on Friday evening, on the occasion of his approaching departure for Europe. Mr. Leece occupied tne chair. Mr. Cleghorn's health was drunk in a very cordial manner,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One steam mill for grinding corn. Produce 800 tons; value, £16,000. One stoneware pottery. Produce, £855 10s. Draining pipes and tiles, valued at £220…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Via Melbourne we have news from Otago to the 5th instant. The Daily Times of that date says:—Yesterday some fragments of auriferous quartz, said to be from a reef in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Thursday last the heat was most oppressive, but in the evening large masses of dark clouds accumulating to the S.E., denoted that a change was at hand, which at 8 p.m. was fully borne out by a thunderstorm, apparently…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The late beneficial supply of water was further replenished by a heavy shower which f[?]l on the evening of Tuesday, the date of my last letter—consequently the accumulated heaps of headings have been considerably…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We received a lengthy communication from our correspondent by Thursday evening's mail, which we have had to postpone till next week. The following is an outline of its contents. On Monday evening Mr. Zuill…
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