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quantity of stores of one kind or another, to judge from the number of buckets and bundles in their possession; and  as soon as they had pitch their tents they dug cooking holes close by, and commenced preparing masses of rice, salt fish, & chow chow, all of which, as well as of pots, pans & platters, there seemed to be no Cook amongst them, A few however, more luxurious than the next, or it may be their head men, had gone to the extent of buying a leg of mutton.

TARRENGOWER 5th April 1855

About 500 persons have been added to the population this week. Two large crushing machines are in Course of erection the engines being eighteen horse power each. Some excitement has been caused at Fryers Creek by the finding of a large nugget of solid gold weighing eighty five pounds, & which has been christened the "Heron Nugget"
In Melbourne wheat may be quoted at 15/. to 16/. per bushel
[Chilian?] barley is worth 7/ & Scotch is reported as high as 10/.3.

MELBOURNE GOLD CIRCULAR APRIL 14th 1858

The buoyancy of the market, stimulated by the continued demand for shipment by Lightning, at the commencement of the week, has been rather increased than austere, from an evident desire to [indecipherable] to the interest, previous to the [indecipherable] modus operandi for the collection of the export duty. The price of 76/6 has been fully maintained. The weeks exports show the largest quantity of gold brought down in any one week during this year, & the exports of the previous metal by the Lightning is the largest in one [indecipherable] during the same period.
Number of persons arrived 4,428
Numbers that have left 537
Addition this week 3,891 and year 17,416
The  [indecipherable] have brought from Mount Alexander & Bendigo 18,217 ounces
Ballarat & Geelong 16,495 " [ounces]
The [indecipherable] 5,988 " [ounces]
Maryborough 2,918 " [ounces]
The Avoca 848 " [ounces]
Amount this week 44 : 356 & year 491 : 235 ounces
                                       ounces
Gold shipped in 1855    536, 212
per [indecipherable] [indecipherable] to Boston 348
per Ivanhoe to Calcutta 1,378
per White Swan to Adelaide 146
per Lightning to Liverpool 66,964
per  Challenger to Hong Kong 305
                                                                  tons  cwt   gr   lb   oz
                                             605: 437 or   25:   4:   2:   3:   1 at 80/.    £2. 421: 748

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