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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
91 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 5
Again we have set fair weather. The grass is assuming a luxuriant appearance, and premises good water feed. The digging are once more g[?]ting populated by our old acquaintances, and all that is now wanted is pay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting was held at Mr Rooncy's, Sydney Flat, on Tuesday. the 6th of April (which was called by advertisement), of miners and persons interested in gold mining on the Rocky River, which, was largely attended, for the purpose of getting up subscriptions to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Writing from the Takaka diggings on the 15th March, the Nelson Examiner's correspondent observes:—"We have had another flood, which has 'wound up' many of the diggers. Books dam and race are now abandoned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As I dinted in my previous communication, the accounts received from this gold field still continue very conflicting. Several parties who left Brisbane to work at these diggings have, after a short trial, returned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I have no great faith in these modern prophets who have predicted a general drought, for since my last we have been favoured with forty-eight hours of almost constant rain. On Monday evening, a thunderstorm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The last week has been a medley of clouds, vapours, drizzling rains, Scotch mists, obscured sun by day and darkened moon by night—in short, a fac-simile of a Boonoo Boonoo climate; and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We are informed on good authority that a run of gold has lately been struck on the Meroo, by a Mr. Charles Edwards, which is decidedly the richest opened since the discovery of Merrendee. the point in which the gold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The weather for the last week has been very seasonable—the days being warm, and the nights cold and dewy. Several new shafts are in course of being sunk on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After various changes, the wind has returned to its old quarters, east and south-east, accompanied with occasional showers. In digging matters I have little to report. A few…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →(The rain of Sunday and Monday last filled several dams, and caused the Mount Jones races to run, and though only of short duration, still the boon was of importance to the tunnelling parties. The Mount Walsh…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It will be seen from the following letter to the editor of the Armidale Express that the Boonoo Roonoo is after all, no "shicer." Gentlemen—I could have written to you sooner if I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Moore has shown as an excellent sample of gold. weighing 4 oza 12 dwts, which he has brought in form Messrs. Cartmill and Tierney, who state they have been at work in the above locality, at or near Cameron's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The weather during the past few days has been very cold, particularly during the nights, accompanied by his [?]. On Tuesday afternoon a heavy shower of rain fell, which was hoped to have continued, but now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On a late visit to the Rocky, we were delighted by proceeding on two occasions through the German tunnel, in Mount Jones—once with Mr. Rae, and again with Mr. Potts—whose courtesy we gladly acknowledge. We We have seen the re-opened diggings in the above named locality, and must say that except as an indication of something more extensive which may be traced therefrom, we have but a slight opinion of the value of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Those who pretend to be good judges of the weather give it as their opinion that severe frosts are generally followed by heavy rains. If such doctrines hold good, we may soon expect wet weather, as the frosts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A REPORT of an inquest appears in our columns, by which it will be seen that a coal minor lost his life in consequence of the defective state of the machinery which was used. It is one of those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During an interview I lately had with Captain Ward, of the Sydney Mint, amongst other topics the subject of the Boonoo Boonoo gold value was also discussed. While approving of a suggestion published by me in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It was generally supposed that gold in paying quantities was not to be found in the bed of he Rocky in yond the lower end of Brown's paddock, but for some time past a large number of Chinese have been working the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ruth to Mount Welsh promises to be the most important that we have had for some time past. All those who [?] on the channel have got payable stuff. About 100 shafts are in course of being put…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The late californian papers inform us of a new and apparently a very rich discovery of gold, in the British possessions bordering on the Washington territory, which was creating much excitement in San Francisco, and inducing a large migration of adventurers from…
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