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VICTORIA
MELBOURNE GOLD CIRCULAR 9TH APRIL 1855

The increased demand for gold for shipment by the Lightning has landed to keep the the price, which may now be quoted at £3.16.6 - The 84 lb nugget, found at Fryers Creek, has arrived at the gold office. There is also one from Ballarat of forty pounds weight.  Had such prizes turned up in time to be sent to the Paris Exhibition they would have tended materially to enlarge the idea of the riches of our Colony.  Should they reach home, emigration will undoubtedly be greatly stimulated.  We hope Captain Cole will persevere in his efforts to have the gold export duty bill brought together, so that all interested may have the facility of perusal without travelling into the Customs duty Act, to grope for it.  The produce this week is considerably over the average, which may be accounted for by the diggers selling all the gold as they find it, that as little as possible may be on hand when the export duty comes onto operation. The evidence given before the gold fields commission regarding the amount to be levied, as "duty" is varied - the majority being for a low rate - 
Number of persons arrived 1302 -
Number that have left 270
addition this week 1062 and year 13. 515
The escorts have brought from Mount Alexander & Bendigo 18, 842 ounces
Ballarat & Geelong 14, 643
Maryborough 5, 070
The Avoca 928
Amount this week 39, 483 & Year 446, 878 ounces
Per Gipsy Bride to Liverpool 39, 030 - 536 : 212 or 22.[Tons?] 6.CWT 9.gr lb 4 oz. at 80/ - £2. 144, 818 -
Exchange on London - Drafts against gold taken to at 1 per cent discount - Freight of gold 4 1/2d per ounce delivered at the Ballarat office, Bank of England London Insurance 2 1/4 per cent -"
CHINESE IMMIGRANTS The Argus of the 9th announces that the gold fields Commission 'are [indecipherable]  to find, that those already on the gold fields ten thousand chinese, and they invite attention to the fact, that between the 6th of February & the 6th of March, no fewer than 1400 of that class of immigrant has arrived - The warning which is given by the Commission receives impressive emphasis from the fact, that within these few days no fewer than 2680 more have landed on our shores.
A Chinese camp of about forty tents, made its appearance on Saturday the 7th on the waste ground on the left bank of the Yarra, a little below the bridge. The occupants who had arrived from Hong Kong a day or two previously, were stated b the interpreter to be above eight hundred in number all grown up males - They seemed to possess a large

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