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Townspeople of Maitland offering reward for any person who find a remunerative gold field in any locality benefitting Maitland
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Estimated that nearly 20 drays and carts and about a hundred men passed over the long Bridge at Maitland en route for the Ophir diggings. Mostly townsmen from Maitland and Morpeth and a few small settlers from the neighbourhood
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Three of the Maitland police left for the diggings. Salaries of the police raised 1s to 3s 3d. Per day
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Townspeople of Scone leaving for the gold fields some properly equipped others on horse back. No credit given in the town. Provisions expensive and scanty
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Four miners absconding from A.A. Company in Newcastle apprehended near Singleton and returned to Newcastle
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William Nicholson's correspondence advising against departing for the gold fields
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Robert Ballard just returned to Maitland from the Ophir gold diggings giving his account
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Road from Maitland alive with drays and men on their way to the Ophir gold diggins
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Heavy rain around Singleton Scone and Murrurundi made the roads so heavy that drays were stuck fast in twos and threes
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A party consisting entirely of California diggers reported to be searching for gold in the districts nearby Maitland
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Seven or eight carts and drays with six men on each passed over the Long Bridge in the previous week on the way to the Ophir diggings.
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Mr. Fenwick and a party of 12 men leave for the gold diggings
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Steven Gunter well known in Maitland as running a shell boat on the river. Sent letter to MM of his experiences on the gold field at Ophir
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Some of the diggers from the Ophir fields beginning to return to Maitland
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Winter weather in Scone. Town deserted as many have left for the diggings
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The Route to the Diggings
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Australian Agricultural Company raised the shepherds pay and allowed them double ration of grocery however many still leaving for the gold diggins
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By regulatoins of 23 May 1851, the fee of thirty shillings payable monthly in advance for every license
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Gold reported to have been found at Wyong Creek about 14 miles from the township of Wollombi. 60 or 70 people digging for gold
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Found gold in the vicinity of Barraba and Oakey Creek
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Two claims made for the reward for finding gold in a vicinity advantageous to Maitland - T.S. Hall and Henry A. Duncomb