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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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The necessity for a boring machine on this gold field is daily becoming more apparent to all interested in [?]ts development. That the diggings in New K[?]ngland are but in their infancy is a fact acknowledged by all whose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Whereas it is expedient to make better provision for the regulation and inspection of the coal fields and collieries of the colony Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining here is very dull, particularly in reefing. The Band of Hope company is about to be brought to a close, in consequence of some shareholders being defaulters, and there no[?]being sufficient shares taken to carry on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The accounts from Lambing Flat are by no means encouraging, the mining population having scattered over the face of the district in all directions, owing to the soarcity of water. Some of these have hit upon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The news from the Lachlan is of an encouraging character. Within the last month there has been a marked improvement in the prospects of the Lower South Lead, several fresh claims having bottomed on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Rocky River the unfortunate miners have for months past been scarcely earning a living, in consequence of the drought. However, the heavy showers that have intormitted since last Boxing Day have given…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The items of news received from the different goldHolds of the colony during the past month have been very scant, and are at the same time uninteresting, more particularly to those at a distance. The Lachlan,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE arrival and departure of another Anniversary Day is a circumstance that not unnaturally directs attention to the progress which the colony has made since the event which we have just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the past week a tunnel has been commenced in Mount Ladergan, with the view of proving practically whether payable gold exists in it or not. This hill, which stands conspicuously about two miles from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FSCORT.—The escort which leaves here today (25th January) conveys to the Mint 366 ozs 5dwts. 4 grs of gold-dust, being the produce of the past fortnight. This is not so small an escort when it is taken into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Martin addressed the jury for the defence, maintaining that the Crown had brought no evidence in support of the charge of wounding. As to the general charge he commented at length upon the evidence sustaining it, contending that it was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With the exception of one o[?] two of the tunnels, and the Hope and Anchor whim claim, most of the large heaps of headings, &c., accumulated during the late dry weather have been washed up—a process alike satisfactory to the miner and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A great portion of the country forming our eastern coast presents sucha peculiar appearance, to even the ordinary observer, that scarcely a traveller along any of the great roads leading…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The late rains hare occasioned several floods in the river which have done considerable injury, especially on Maitland Point Great activity prevails amongst those who have sluicing claims, water, more or less, being available anywhere. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the present time, when speculations as to the probable results of railway extension to the North are rife, the following information furnished by our Singleton correspondent is entitled to a more prominent position…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is pretty generally understood that coal districts have usually been formed at the mouths of large rivers, and the deltas of the Mississippi and the Ganges may be, as they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The prospecting tunnel lately started in Mount Ladergan has presented difficulties not anticipated when projected. The granite through which the adit is driven has in in many places been of so hard a nature as to require blasting, and within the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The nomination of candidates for the representation of the northern Gold fields took place to-day. Mr. James Leece proposed and Mr A. Fremlin seconded. Mr. James Macnamara, and Mr. R. C. Cooper proposed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On a previous occasion we noticed the existence of a manuscript drawing which had been privately shown to us of the sections of the coal seams in the Newcastle coalfield by Mr. Maokenite—a gentleman who has brought…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE NORTHERN GOLD-FIELDS ELECTION.—The principal excitement has at present died out, tbe nomination having been passed. Great efforts are, however, still being made by the friends of both candidates—Messrs…
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