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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
123 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 7
IT will be greatly to the onor of this colony if we can succeed in passing into law a practicable and thoroughly efficient method of securing life in coal mines. To our minds it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday evening last, considerable excitement prevailed throughout the city, owing to the arrival of the Mary E. Rae, from Melbourne, with 190 men sent for specially, by the A. A. Company to occupy the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident happened on Saturday night to Mr Faulkner, who, owing to the darkness of the night, fel into a shaft about 25 feet in depth, and had to remain there until assistance arrived on Sunday morning. Owing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday, the 23rd June, a public meeting was held at the Sir Wm. Denison Hotel, for the purpose of eliciting opinion respecting the Dividing Fences Bill. Resolutions to the effect that the bill is inimical to free…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The quantity of gold-dust delivered by the escorts from our several gold fields during the month of June amounted to 38,946 ounces. For the corresponding month of 1861, the receipts were 31,063 ounces. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When will Mount Jones be worked out? is a question which cannot be easily answered. Within these few weeks past another channel containing gold has been discovered lower down than the first sinking, the depth of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Surveyor Oliver has been engaged during the past week marking the preliminary surveys necessary previous to marking off the two-acre allotments for such as have made the requisite application. The gold field…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a preliminary meeting, held at Mr. J[?] M Loughlan's, Our House at Home, last night, it was agreed by 10 holders of claims on the Old Reef, and other persons present, that a company should be formed for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →H. M. C. S. Viotoria, which left Hobson's Bay on Thursday last with a numerous party of gentlemen, Cabinet Ministers, and members of Parliament, for Cape Patterson, returned on Monday evening. The trip was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHINESE—A portion of the Chinese who passed the borders of Queensland a short time since arrived at the Rocky River in a destitute condition. They were about 50 in number, some of whom were evidently specimen[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The quantity of gold-dust delivered by the Escorts from our go[?]d-fields during the month of July amounted to 76,092 ounc[?] For the corresponding month of the year 1864 the receipts were 33,202 ounces. The increase on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another heavy fall of snow took place on Saturday las[?], followed up on Sunday by showery weather. Some little water was thus obtained for sluicing purposes, and as the ground is now pretty well saturatedm slight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is pretty obvious that one result of the discovery and working of gold in California and Australia, by men from all nations, freely permitted to dig where they like for a small…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUGUST 11, 1862.—A circumstance has transpired here within the last few days which, althongh it at first threatened serious consequences to us as a community, promises at present to be of great utility in preventing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An important work has just been completed at the Rocky, after twelve years of unremitting labour, in the cutting of a race from Dangar's lagoon, on the road from U[?]alla to Salisbury, to the Burying Ground G[?]y,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Quite an excitement prevailed here on Monday, in consequence of a report that something worthy of Maitland Point had been struck last week in that once favorite and much wrought locality. Maitland Point was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN—A fortnight age I had to pay a visit to the township of Bingera, on the Big River, and having arrived there, I got an invitation to inspect the diggings called Addison Diggings, on Bobby Whi[?]lo[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action by an assignee under an assignment for the benefit of creditors against the Newcastle, Coal and Copper Company, for breach of a contract made with the assignor for the construction of a line of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At our public meeting on Saturday last, W. L. Spencer, Esq., was called to the chair, and after several movements were discussed, and bye-laws agreed to, £52 were in twenty minures laid upon the table by part of the intended shareholders of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—I hope you will allow me to supply on omission in your enumeration this day of the most remarkable products of the different Australian colonies. On Saturday, the 17th instant, the cotton of New South Wales was…
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