This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... Sluicing--Mode of--Government Impediments to profitable Undertakings--Coal Fields--Approach of Winter--Vast Flocks of Birds--A native Camp, and new Grave--Mode of breaking in Bullocks--Stop the Mail in Futter's Ranges--Land Sales at Benalla--Victorian Government as Paymasters--Government Mode of doing Business--Convey Prisoners Six hundred miles for want of a Lock-up--Mr. Robertson on the Campaspe buys six hundred and forty acres from Government for 640/. and sells them 6000/. worth of Hay from Eighty acres of it the first Season--Mr. Robertson's Troubles--Story of a Tyrant Overseer--Mrs. Chisholm going wrong--Giving false Coloring to the Colony in her Speeches in the manufacturing Districts--Is evidently ignorant of the Drunkenness here--Horrors of Spirit-drinking in this Colony--Amount of Duty on Spirits--Mrs. Chisholm's couleur de rose Ideas of Bush Life--The Reality--Postscript, 1855: Mrs. Chisholm, her Arrival in Victoria '--Gone up the Country--Sees the whole great Cheat--The Roads! The Diggings! The Public Houses! and the Refusal of Land! and speaks out nobly. Bendigo, April 23, 1854. Before leaving the Yackandanda Creek, we made an endeavor to undertake a large sluicing concern. In the new act of regulations for the gold-fields there is a clause empowering the government to grant leases of such portions of those fields as are worked out and abandoned by the ordinary digger. These, when they have ceased to remunerate the digger who works them in the ordinary fashion with a small party, and with cradle and tom, yet frequently contain sufficient gold to pay, and pay well, for working on a larger and more rapid scale. Where the MODE OF SLUICING. 193 digger by the cradle, or even by the tom, can put through a few cartloads of earth, ..