The New England Gold Fields. the Rocky River
FROM the late uncertainty of the mails, I did not know when to post a letter that would arrive in time for insertion, but I send the present communication by private…
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Mining & the mines, 1857
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Rough Sketches. My First Fit of the " Gold Fever." [Communicated, by an Ex Gold Digger.] No. Viii. Legal Scythes and a Thin Crop
WE had not been many days in our new locale, and were delving among slates and puddling away with the rattle-trap of a cradle when notes of alarm came sweeping…
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MY new mate, Billbird, went to the Junction to get some luggage and settle with his drayman. He paid at the rate of £2 5s. per 100 lbs. for carriage. Tomkins…
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ON last Thursday afternoon, digger as he met digger might have been heard asking, "Have they got him out yet?" "Not yet" being the reply. Ah! little recked the…
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A PUBLIC-HOUSE was lately moved up to the Flat, and passed into the hands of Germans, and on Saturday last was opened for the first time, when, as is usual, there…
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THE drought that had heralded the discovery of gold at Ophir was now effectually broken. Night after night flying clouds swept over, throwing down torrents of rain;…
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WITHIN eight days I have again to deplore the violent death of another miner, as if a fatality were hanging, over the Rocky as well as over the sea—as in the cases of the…
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ABOUT sixty Chinese have come upon these diggings from Victoria within the last week, and I hear of a hundred more on the way up. If the legislators of Victoria are…
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THE exodus towards the Turon kept on. A straggling chain of diggers, rough as hedgehogs and laden like pack-horses, streamed over the ridges from the Junction, jolted…
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LEST, from the publicity the lately drawn up petition of residents on the Rocky River gold field has received through the press, the public should imagine that the mining…
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As time rolled on we duly approached Bathurst, and part of the motley squad, including Macgregor and myself, rushed on to the town, and left the rest with the…
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THE deep sinking at the Rocky lately has brought digging to a stand-still, so that there is a probability of everything being very dull until the ridge at the end of the…
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AFTER a stern bout with old Wyagden (alias the "Big Hill"—how many are there of the same name?) we rolled over a few miles of prairie-like table-land, and…
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SOME of our prospectors returned from Glen Elgin on Sunday last, and imported so favourably of the indications of gold there as to cause a regular stir amongst the…
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DURING last week great excitement prevailed on these diggings, in consequence of certain parties having returned from a prospecting visit to Glen Elgin who brought…
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WE have received the following letter from respectable parties on the Glen Elgin diggings, and have much pleasure in giving it publicity:—…
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THE weather for some time past has been very fine and dry, with the exception of a few slight thunder showers, but the heavy rain of to-night, if it continues, will be a…
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NOW-A-DAVS a few hours' rain is onlynecessary to ensure a few days' detention of the low-country mails. This occurs almost after every thunderstorm; an…
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DULL times is the general complaint at the Rocky at present: parties are therefore content with earning moderate wages until something fresh is found out…
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WITHIN the last few days a great change has taken place in the temperature of the weather; the bracing spring atmosphere of the early part of last week has given place…
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