New England Gold Fields. the Fairfield Diggings
WE were visited yesterday by a digger from Fairfield, who had to come to Brisbane, and who is going to return to the diggings when his business is transacted, from whose…
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Mining & the mines, 1859
51 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 3
New England Gold Fields. the Rocky River
I WOULD have written last week, but put of u ail I was able to report the success attending a new rush that took place about eight days ago, to a gully behind the El…
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THE weather during the last week was very warm, and though several thunderstorms passed over the Rocky very little rain followed. yesterday afternoon some…
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THIS world is all a fleeting show, For man's Illusion given; The smile of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shines, deceitful flow…
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SINCE my last the weather has been rather cold and cloudy, with occasional slight showers of rain, but now we are likely to have a change, as the skies are quite clear…
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WE are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Buchanan, Commissioner at the Rocky, for the annexed particulars in reference to the Fairfield Diggings. We may remark that…
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DURING the last ten days, Taggarts Rush has been the grand scene of attraction. Diggers from all parts of the Rocky came there to try their luck, and a number of…
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ALTHOUGH the number of diggers on the Rocky is not visibly increasing, still there is no diminution, with the exception of the the Chinese, who are leaving fast…
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AFTER the [?]ull in mining matters occasioned vby the races of last week there is little To be said on that subject, excepting that the diggers have again returned steadily…
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THE weather continues dry, and water for cradling purposes is becoming scarce, but I am sorry that at present it is in little request, as most miners are complaining of…
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LAST week, upon visiting the ground at Mount Welsh, where so many rushed to lately, I found that almost all the diggers had left, with the exception of about ten…
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? Tjie little diggings on the face of the lull! b'Jow Mount Jones continue to prosper. S Towards the bottom the goid is found in a! ch-mnel of about 8 feet in width, but about…
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EVEN after a week's silence, I arn, I confess, in the position of many newspaper correspondents, having very little to write about…
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The weather for the last week has been all that we could have wished, both by day and night, with the exception that we are still greatly in want of rain, as the waterholes…
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THE weather since my last has continued remarkably fine. The moonlight nights have been particularly beautiful, but for the last two days a cloudy haze has been…
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IF the present dry weather continue, I fear the want of water will be much felt on many parts of the diggings. Those living on Sydney Flat have already to pay very…
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THE weather still continues as dry as ever, with no prospect of a change. Nothing new to report this week, only that the diggers are rather unsettled on…
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YESTERDAY morning about 15 shafts were commenced by Chinamen on the slopes below Mount Mutton. Upon visiting the ground to-day I found them all busy…
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THE last has been the most miserable cold, bleak, bone-chilling week that has ever been experienced on the Rocky, the weather being made up of high winds, rains, snow, sleet,…
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AT a depth of about eighteen feet (twelve of of which were through ironstone) a shaft has been bottomed by Mr. John Thomson, on the ridge at the back of the Catholic…
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