The Northern Gold Fields. the Rocky River
SOME ten or twelve days ago, when the exodus from the Rocky for the Tilbuster diggings commenced, it was said that The Rocky minstrel's harp was hushed,…
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Mining & the mines, 1861
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The Northern Gold Fields. the Rocky River
THE weather during the last week was warm and agreeable, and very favourable for harvest operations. On Sunday and Monday we had some thunderstorms,…
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THUNDER, lightning, dark clouds, dull days, high, changeable winds, and other rain denoting indications have been the order of our weather during the last week…
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ON Saturday evening, 26th inst., a very numerous meeting of the [?]maining diggers of the Rocky (the rushes to Puddledock and Ironbark having Considerably…
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THE weather has been very tempestuous for the past week—vivid lightning, awful thunder, and pouring rain daily—and if the diggers cannot get gold now it is…
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THE weather has somewhat cleared and the new moon of Sunday last appears to be the harbinger of a more congenial temperature. We do not remember having experienced…
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LAST week we had our share of the very heavy rains which seem to have been so general over all the country. On Tuesday evening and Wednesday forenoon it seemed…
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SINCE my last communication we have had more rain, and although the fall was gentle, yet, being continuous for thirty hours without cessation, it had the effect of rising the…
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ONCE again are we in possession of very delightful weather, and fanned with breezes cool and fresh as ever blew through wattle trees or cassia bushes—news which cannot…
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WE have had occasional light showers during the week, ending in a more settled state of atmosphere, with every probability of a continuance of fine weather…
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THERE is nothing particularly new at present to report in gold discoveries, yet I heard tonight a slight rumour of a new rush, but all I could find out was that it lay North-East…
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I THICK that he old Idea, that the moon has an influence on the weather, is now getting very high exploded, therefore we cannot attribute the present drizzling rains…
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THE small but rich gold-field discovered some two years since on the verge of the dense cedar scrub that covers, as with a pall, the table-land on which the Millera…
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IT is much to be regretted, in the present dull state of these diggings, that the prospecting shafts at Tipperary, on which so much labour and money have been expended,…
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As this bill, introduced in the Assembly by Mr. Cowper, is of considerable length, perhaps the following correct analysis of its contents will be more suitable for the general reader…
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SINCE my last the weather has taken a radical change for instead of our late pleasant days and nights both are bitter enough, being I fear only a foretaste of what we…
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ON Friday evening, 19th inst., a lecture on Gold and Gold-bearing Rocks, &c., was delivered at the School-house, by Dr. Bruhn —Mr. Dalton, sub-commissioner, in the…
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"IN the midst of life we are in death." This saying was again verified on Sunday morning last. A girl of but four years of age, while sitting on a log to which a fire…
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PUDDLEDOCK is the old Puddledock still—so much so that any digger, on sinking a foot in his hut, can have a never-failing supply of pure water! What think you of this,…
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ON, Cowper, on! Charge, Robertson, charge! Tire not; waver not; let your motto be onward until, like a settler in a new country, the unsightly stumps of…
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