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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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This was an application for an injunction to stay proceedings under a judgment obtained (under the Foreign Attachment Act) against the above named company. Mr. Stephen appeared in support of the application,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Their Honors gave judgment in this case, dismissing the appeal with costs. This judgment—being that of a majority of the court—was conclusive; but Mr. Justice Wise, it was intimated, was wholly dissentient…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A more pleasing subject than the strife and bitterness of a political contest, with the accompanying misrepresentations, is the report of a new lend of gold at Sawpit Gully. A week or two ago some payable stuff was struck…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the chief problems of mining in California has been, and still is, the reduction of "gold sulphurets"—as auriferous quartz containing a sulphuret of iron or copper is called. It is a very easy matter to extract the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The quantity of gold dust delivered by the escorts from our gold fields during the month of December, 1864, amounted to 31,709 ozs. During the corresponding month of the year…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the past week several duffers have been sank on the new rush at Sawpit Gully, but sinking is still carried on, and it is probable that the course of the lead—that is if it be a lead—will be shown in another…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have to-day to perform the melancholy duty of recording the sacrifice of three more victims to auri sacra fames. Sergeant Gallagher brought information to town on Saturday evening of a man who reported the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A letter from Newcastle, signed "[?]Olipus," recently appeared in the S M. Herald, advocating, in eff et, a combination of the co[?] masters, with the view of maintaining a compiratively high price for coal, and thus…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tamworth, Wednesday Evening—At the polling for the Northern Gold Fields at the Peel River diggings, there was a majority for Pickering of 160. DUBBO…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the General Flood Relief Committee, appointed at a public meeting held at the Masonic Hall in July last, was held yesterday afternoon, at Mort's Rooms. The meeting was convened by Mr. Hanson,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There has been no period in the history of the Rocky sinoe the opening of Mount Jones that mining affairs have looked so promising. Before the prospecting party in the deep ground at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thursday.—The Returning-officer, William Cleghorn, Esq., declared the state of the poll for this electorate at Uralla, Rocky River, shortly after noon on Wednesday, as follows:—Pickering, 269; Rusden, 87; Roman, 23…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The prospecting shaft at the head of Sawpit Gully having erected their horse whim will renew underground operations in a few days. Many here are very sanguine that the recovered lead will be traced for a considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It has been known and felt during the last three or four years that the consumption of Australian coal was not increasing in the Chinese markets in anything like the same ratio as the English and American, or to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday last, Mr. Surveyor Greaves marked the base line in a N.W. direction from Morrow and Co.'s prospecting shaft at the head of Sawpit Gully. The lead was named Palmerston. Four claims have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Phoenix shaft was bottomed on Thursday evening. The granite dips sharply to the N.W., and opinion is divided as to whether it is a boulder or a bar. I am inclined to think it is a bar, but whatever it is the shaft will have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following telegrams, received by the Inspector-General of Police, were handed to us (S. M. Herald) for publication:— Araluen, 3.10 p.m., March 13…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday morning, the bushrangers Gilbert, Hall, and Dunn, and another man, stuck up the Araluen escort, on Major's Creek Mountain. They were beaten off by the police. One, John Kelly, was dangerously wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hitherto the means of loading vessels with coat at Newcastle have been extremely limited, compared with the requirements at the port, and this circumstance has had an injurious effect upon its prosperity. During the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following Bill, for the better recovery of Coal Miners' Wages, and to amenmd the Coal Fields Regulation Act of 1862, has been introduced by Mr. Tighe into the Legislative Assembly:—…
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