Gold Fields. the Rocky River
Yen would be [?] of diggers and trades people located on Upper Sydney Flat. [?] being [?] The principal draw[?] to our [?] the hardness of…
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Mining & the mines, 1857
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Gold Fields. the Rocky River
If we had not been blessed with iron constitutions here, the present changeable weather would be too apt to swell our doctor's bills. The post fortnight has been uncommonly cold, bleak, and rainy. The wind, which…
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The diggings here are rather lively at present, owing to the late rush to Sydney Flat. Since that event stores have been erected there in every direction. A good many shafts have been bottomed all over the flat, and…
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Writing from the Hanging Rock, on the 18th ultimo. and again on the 23rd, our correspondent says:—Alter an absence of eleven members, I have returned to those diggings once more, and find every thing almost in the…
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The London wool sales closed March 18, with no improvement on previous advices. We give below the latest reports on both wool and tallow:—The first series of sales of this year commenced on the 26th…
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Since my last the weather has taken another whim. From the int[?]se cold on Saturday we could smell some approaching change. Sunday proved our surmises justified, by the heavy showers of [?]ky show that fell…
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The Mercury of yesterday publishes an account of one hundred and eight ounces of the precious metal having been found in one bucket of washing stuff. This enormous find was struck upon at the depth of twelve feet…
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The following has been received by Messrs. Dickson and Co., from a correspondent, and kindly forwarded to us for publication:— "Peel River, June 1st, 1857…
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The good folks of Greenock have a saying—"That it rains thirteen months a year there;" although we cannot say the same of New England, still it would appear on if the weather was to continue wet for six months out…
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MERRENDEE.—During the last few days a report had been in circulation that a nugget weighing 82lbs, has been found at Merrendee; we believe it to be entirely false. However, some few nuggets, weighing from one…
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The diggers are still sinking and blasting day and night on the upper end of Sydney Flat with the greatest perseverance. Some have bootomed their holes, and been well rewarded for their trouble. The roo[?]lation on this…
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My last letter was regularly posted early this day week, but seems to have been de[?]sined some where, as it did not appear in Sunday's "Express" Since then there is not much to report from those diggings…
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The weather continues very wet, and had greatly impeded mining operations for some time, notwithstanding the yield of gold id gradually increasing. All the parties on the quartz veins are striking their quartz in…
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The prospects of the diggings are very every day more encouraging; several new shafts have been struck during the past week both on Blackfellow's Mountain and Folly's Ridge, and the work on the latter place is being…
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Since my last letter the weather has improved considerably, and it is to be hoped that our ways, if not our manners, will shortly mend. There are sundry rumours adrift of Chinamen having…
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The diggings are proceeding in the usual quiet way. No great finds of gold have taken place, but a few shafts bottomed last week on Sydney Flat are playing well, and one or two have proved shicers. The sluicing parties are…
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The following is copied from a special issue of the Victorai Government Gazette, July 14:—"PROCLAMATION. "Victoria by the Grace of God, of the United…
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We are now blessed with milder weather and a blue sky, and the general toast is—"Long may they last." I am sorry to say that in the new rush on Sydney Flat many of our oldest and most energetic diggers have…
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On Sunday evening last a mal[?] occurrence took place on the River. A man of colour a[?] Simmond from Philladelphia had gone down an old shaft and was in the act of scraping out some gravel [?] the entrance of…
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Several times within the last twelve months there have been migrations from our diggings, and at such times we were assured that the Rocky was certainly done, and yet the Rocky has outlived these unfavourable opinions…
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