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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
94 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 5
We has seen a letter from the Rocky River Diggings, which states that the branch of the Bank of New South Wales at hat place, acting upon instructions from head quarters, have lowered the price of gold from £3 16s 9d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Rocky River everything is slack, and many of the diggers, influenced by the capricious smiles of fortune, are preparing to leave. Sydney Flat his not turned out so well as was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ORANGE.—Gold digging is rather slack just now. The heavy rain of last week has interfered with some—others are enjoying the Christmas holidays. The diggers working about the town on Little Oakey and Red Hill are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Among thy follow [?] a weary lot is thine, Te glory and to [?] to toil and yet to pine." The following letter were written at the same time at the teni of Messrs. Frank Smith and Sam…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →With the exception of the report of the races, there is no news of much interest from the Rocky. From so much time having been spent in celebrating the Christmas holidays and attending the races, it is expected that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Since I wrote you last, we have had dreadfully heavy rains—almost incessant up to New Year's Day—But now again the weather is fine. The diggings are decidedly improving. It is true that the wet did considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The quantity of gold brought to market this week has not much increased, yet still sufficient arrives to prove that gold mining is not aba[?]. The gold miner, with all his tail and uncertainty, has one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ROCKY RIVER.—At present there is scarcely anything new to communicate from these diggings. Very few of the shafts in Tipperary Gully have been bottomed as yet, but by the end of the week a number expect to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our correspondent at these diggings, under date the 31st ultimo, says:—I am sorry to say that our population is fast diminishing; every day takes some dozen or more from our number. They are not going in twos and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Both the diggings and business are comparatively dul at the Rocky this week, and there has been nothing worthy of particular notice since our last issue…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Comparing the fifth annual statistical account of the gold fields of Victoria for the year 1856, it bears the favourable position of showing an increase over 1855 of 16 per cent. which is mainly owing to the extended use of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We are now practically under the Gold Tax, for although Sunday is the day on which it nominally commences, yet the day previous is but an imperfect one for business. The heavy rains have no doubt given an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The mysterious robbery of a large quantity of bullion on the South-Eastern Railway in May last gear which so thoroughly puzzled the whole of the detective force of that period, has at last come to light, in consequence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HAVE given you very little news of late from this quarter, for the plain reason that there has been little to report. The old favourite spots are losing their wonted celebrity, and I am sorry to say their population is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A rumour having reached Mudgee that a new and extensive gold field had been discovered in the neighbourhood, I was determined not to be led away by vague and uncertain reports, but to proceed to the spot to satisfy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been politely favoured by Messrs. T. Rottmann and Co. of Sydney, with the following extract of a letter from George G. Dickinson, datad Meroo, 21st February:—"The place from whence came the 51 ozs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since my last letter there is not any news of importance to send you, the population decreases weekly and business is very dull. Although some is doing very well on Mount Welsh, and rich surfacing has been found and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Affairs generally are very dull here at present. For some time past it has been a common practice with the diggers to leave as they finished their claims, some for the Mitta Mitta, oshers for the Hanging Rock, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following extracts from Collins' History of New South Wales, published about the year 1800, are curious:— The settlement of Sydney Cove was for some time…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The shower of gold is but gentle this week; indeed, it anything but pours into Sydney. It might be well if our legislators were to go beyond treating the gold fields as merely spots from which to reap revenue, and we are to…
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