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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
123 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 7
His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to appoint Luke Homan Sibthorpe, Esquire, to be a Sub-Commissioner of Gold Fields…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The trial of this case, which was commenced on Thursday, and was continued throughout the whole of Friday, was now resumed and concluded. It was an action by the owner of the brig Victor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →By the Witch of the Tees we (S. M. Herald) have papers from Otago (Dunedin), to the 14th ultimo. We quote as follows from the Daily Times:- The usual weekly escort arrived on the afternoon of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Union Company have this week started their mill for a few hours, merely for the sake of getting the stamping battery into working order, and of ascertaining to a certain degree the quantity of water which will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tunnels are now the order of the day here, and most of the miners on this field have an interest in one or other of those now in progress. These tunnels are amongst the most remarkable of the gold-mining open…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The news from these diggings continues to be most encouraging. A correspondent writing from thence on the 9th, says:—"This place is going ahead beyond expectation; to-morrow's escort will contain upwards of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →While all cheerful English households have been adding to their cheerfulness by heaping up the fires that make a pleasant contrast to the cold outside, a terrible tragedy has occurred in one of the great northern coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rumours of almost unparalleled success at the Lachlan have been circulated very freely through the city for this week past. To these rumours, although they come to us from an unimpeachable source, we declined to give…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The escorts, which reached Sydney yesterday, brought down from the Western and Southern diggings the greatest quantity of gold ever received in Sydney in one week, viz., 16,511 ozs. Of this quantity 11,388…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Per the Jane Lockhart, we have papers to the 14th instant, from D[?]nedin. The O[?]ago Witness of the 8th says:—The escort from the gold-fields, which arrived in town on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR DANIEL COOPER has performed a truly patriotic action in addressing a formal letter to the Dake of Newcastle, as Secretary for the Colonies, urging the British Government to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The news from this place is rather of a brief nature on account, of the small number of diggers at present located here, our population not mustering more than thirty; but I bave the sure prospect of an increase in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ANTICIPATED COLLIERS' TRIKE—the following notice has been issued by the superintendent of the A A. Company, and is posted up this morning at all the Company's pits:—"Notice is hereby given that after Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday evening, according to an advertisement in the Express, a meeting of the residents on this gold-field was held at Mr. [?], Sydney Flat, for the purpose of securing the regular attendance of a medical…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We regret very much to see that the coal miners at Newcastle and its neighbourhood appear to be bont on provoking another strike. For when we find that the miners in three large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are happy to state that the A. A. Company's miners resumed full work yesterday at the D and E pits, and they would have also done so at the F pit bad the men there been made acquainted in time with the course…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been favoured by the Hon[?] the Secretary for Lands with the following telegram, received yesterday from Mr. Gold Commissioner M'Lean:- "The discovery of gold, supposed to be in payable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following statement has been handed to us for publication. The ciroumstances conected with this matter are briefly as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—With a view of quieting the alarm which, judging from the communications to your own and other journals, appear to be entertained by some of our fellow colonists interested in the value of tallow, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We find in the Newcastle Free Press of Saturday, the following letter from a miner employed in the A. A. Company's pits, stating the case as the miners see it:- (To the Editor of the Free Press.)…
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