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V I C T O R I A
EMEUTE AT BALLAARAT [BALLARAT] DEC. 1854

FROM MELBOURNE GOLD CIRCULAR
DEC 9TH 1854
After a week of extreme anxiety as to the result of the emeute at Ballaarat [Ballarat], it is satisfactory to record the amount of good sense displayed at the meeting of the diggers after the first brush took place between the military and the rioters
In referring to this important affair, we cannot avoid noticing the sacrifice which the Ballaarat diggers must have suffered in a pecuniary point of view.
this week there has not been an ounce of gold sent by escort, either to Melbourne or Geelong, from that locality.  The usual average quantities for the last six months being about ten thousand ounces per week, show a loss of £400000  -
the amount of gold from the other fields seems to be up to the average quantity, showing that the deficiency falls entirely to the loss of the Balaarat field  - 

C E N S U S   R E T U R N S
DECEMBER 1854
It is Calculated  that out of the 67,000 people returned by the census enumerators as being in the various gold fields of Victoria about 40,000 only were actually engaged in digging.  The escort returns for some months past have averaged about thirty seven thousand ounces or say 38,000 ounces per week, which would give all the gold fields population included, little more than half an ounce.

ANALYSIS OF SAND AND WATER WORN PEBBLES FROM THE OVENS RIVER.
These specimens are found owing to their great specific weight mixed with the gold at the bottom of the miners apparatus, they consist of a very rich ore often.
Similar to the "Stream tin" of Cornwall which yields from 50 to 70 per cent of pure metal.  Not only the black sand of this deposit, but also the yellowish and grey particles.  Some of these are nearly transparent  -  which occur in it yield unmistakeable evident of tin.

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