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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Is that a paper in yer father's coat-pocket, Isley?" "Yes," said the boy, taking it out. Bob took the paper and stared hard at it for a moment or so. "There's something about the new goldfields there," said Bob, putting his finger on a tailor's advertisement. "I wish you'd why read it to me, Isley; I can't see the small print they uses nowadays."
Tom got on with her father, who was packing horses through the ranges to the new goldfields it was rough country and there were no roads; they had to pack everything there in those days, and there was money in it. The girl's father took to Tom as almost everybody else did and, as far as the girl was concerned, I think it was a case of love at first sight.
Then again it seemed to me possible that between Kimberley in the North and Coolgardie in the South auriferous connection might exist. A broken connection with wide intervals perhaps, but possibly belts of "mixed" country, now desert, now lake, now gold-bearing. Such mixed country one finds towards the eastern confines of the goldfields.
"There was a second letter found in the gentleman's pocket, Miss," she said. "Will you excuse my reminding you that you have not read it yet." Iris read the lines that follow: "Forgive me, my dear, for the last time. My letter is to say that I shall trouble you no more in this world and, as for the other world, who knows? I brought some money back with me, from the goldfields.
Of late years the disputes between our Government and the African Republic have turned so entirely on questions connected with the status of the settlers in and around Johannesburg, that we may easily forget the old subjects of dispute which existed for a generation before it was known that there were any workable goldfields in South Africa, and before the word "Uitlander" had been mentioned amongst us.
"It is true, after all," said Amyas to himself. "What God has joined together, man cannot put asunder." Geoffry Hamlyn Henry Kingsley, younger brother of Charles Kingsley, was born at Barnack, Northamptonshire, England, Jan. 2, 1830. Leaving Worcester College, Oxford, in 1853, he, with a number of fellow-students, emigrated to the Australian goldfields.
Before many months the province's population had doubled, and the prayerful and painful era of caution, the day of small things, was whisked away in a whirl of Victorian enterprise. For the next few years the history of Otago became a series of rushes. Economically, no doubt, "rush" is the proper word to apply to the old stampedes to colonial goldfields.
That was in the days of the first great stampede to the goldfields, when the embryo seaports were as empty as though they were plague-ridden, and every man who had the use of his legs was on the wide bush-track, bound for the north.
Law and order were kept on the goldfields of Mount Alexander, Bendigo, and Ballarat by means of a strong body of police, and the high licence fees for claims paid for their services, so that nothing like the scenes recorded of the Californian diggings could be permitted. But for the time ordinary industries were paralysed.
For what has the gold done for us? It has enriched us, many will say. Yes! but it has also been a stumbling-block to many a man. And is it not better to be a poor but independent nation than to be rich and at the same time subject to another Power. Let the goldfields go. We shall still, with our markets, be rich enough."
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