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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
123 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 7
Residents in Sydney of ten or twelve years' standing are aware that, at one period, a considerable quantity of coals was procured from what was known as the Ebenerer Mine, at Lake Macquarie The coals were considered of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Whereas it is expedient to amend an Act passed in the twentieth year of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria intituled "An Act for granting a Duty upon Gold" Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ir the motion of Mr. Wilson on the gold duty, on Wednesday, was intended as a trial of strength between the Ministry and the extreme Liberals, who distrust and oppose them, it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another gutter was discovered last week near Mount Gore. The sinking is but shallow and the wash dirt about a foot thick, averaging half-an-ounce to the load. The Chinese whim party on Sydney Flat have re erected the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A bill to regulate coal-fields and collieries was brought up from the Assembly and read a first time, and the s[?]cond reading fixed for Wednesday next. RETURNS, PETITIONS, &c…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. WINDEVRR presented a petition from Allan Wild, signing as chairman of the New South Wales Co operative Coal Mining Company, preparatoiy to the introduce tion of a bill to incorporate the said company…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our correspondent writing on the 10th, says:—Mr. Commissioner Addison leaves here on Thursday for the Rocky River. We trust the gentleman who is to replace him here will make as many friends as Mr. Addison has made. We have only one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Had the Gothenburg been half an hour later in her departure from Dunedin, on Monday, [?], you would by this time have been in receipt of news of a more exciting character than any I have been able to furnish since the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE official report on the trials of Australian coal, made at Woolwich dockyard on lst May last, is now received, and, as will be seen by the following table, is very gratifying to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have received reliable information that a new payable gold Held has been discovered at Gerard's Gully, which is about 80 miles lrom Tenterfield, and Ave miles west of Fairfield. The discovery was made by the men engaged in clearing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I reported, a lew weeks ago, that Messrs Taylor and Co./ had been fortunatE enough to strike payable gold at Maitland Point, a little way up the bank from tho present course of tho river, and that It was supposed then to be the original bed of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following letter from the Government Examiner of Coal-fields is published in the Herald of Monday:- SIR—Since the publication of the tabular statement of trials of Australian coal at Woolwich, in your paper of friday last, I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By way of Melbourne, we (S. M. Herald) have news from Dunedin to the 9th instant. The accounts from the new diggings are not so fittering as previous advices. The snow melting from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Execu-tive Council, has been pleased to appoint George Douglass, Esq., Gold Commissioner, to be Chairman of the Board for reporting on claims to rewards for discovery of new gold fields in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SPURIOUS GOLD.—MR. John Crapp has this week received his returns from the Mint of a small parcel of gold dust he sent there for the purpose of testing its purity. Mr. Crapp informs me that the analysis gives—of pure gold a parts; silver, 1;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The escort, on Monday morning, left Forbes for Sydney, with 6805 ozs. 4 dwts. of gold, consigned to the Deputy Master of the Mint. SOUTH LEAD.—The shareholders at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An amusing scene took place on the front of Mount Jones on Tuesday morning last. A gentleman who had undertaken the duties of deputY balliff made his appearance on the side of the hill, armed with a number of summonses for [?]undry residents in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our escort is more buoyant than usual, having reached 478 ozs. on Monday last. This is a larger escort than has gone from the Rocky River for nearly six months. I confess I was agreeably surprised at the result of the last gold returns, as I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An offer made by the Band of Hope Compmy for driving the tunnel was accepted by Messrs. Malcolm M'Keliar, & Co, and operations were commenced on Monday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The miners generally are suffering very severely from the long-continued drought, the want of water preventing the washing up of stuff that would be payable were water handy…
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