![]() October 25 The Golden Point is nearly worked out, and the new diggings as well as the Black Hill are laborious and uncertain. The Commissioner paid the place a visit, and intimated to the diggers, who have hitherto been allowed to work without interference that he would, in a few days require the payment of license money. weight, will turn the attention still more strongly towards them. October 17 The workings at the Black Hill are getting more into favor, and the finding there of a lump no less than 7 1/2 lbs. There are about fifty near the Black Hill about a mile and a half distant, and at the Brownhill Diggings there are about three or four hundred more. October 15 There are we should say about a thousand cradles at work within a mile of the Golden Point at Ballarat. September 24 There is another "Diggins" close by, say two miles, "the Black Hill," but hitherto the miners have not been successful to any great amount. Īfter August Then Dunlop and mates fell to work on the Black Hill. ![]() ![]() Three days later regulations for the issue of licenses to dig were published. Latrobe, declaring that all gold, whether found on private or Crown lands, belonged to Her Majesty, and any one disturbing the soil in search for such gold, without having been so authorised by the Government, would be prosecuted, criminally and civilly. Īugust The sailor says, "that Greenwood and myself were working together by ourselves (when he came) at the Black Hill." I deny this: I never worked with Greenwood in my life. August At that time Lindsay and Greenwood were at the Black Hill by themselves. ![]()
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