Volume 01: Production and resources of the northern and western districts of New South Wales, 1854 [ca. 1850-1857] - Page 636

The escorts have brought this week 41,451 ounces and year 2 177 887 ounces or 110 tons 8cwt 3qrs 6lb 6oz at 80/ £10 602 312.
Exchange in London Drafts agt gold purchased at 2 per cent disct
Freight 4½d per oz delivered at the Bullion office Bank of England London

STATE OF VICTORIA 1855
GOLD EXPORTS 1855 110 tons 8 cwt 3 qrs 6 lb against 88 tons 8 cwt 3 qrs 8 lb for 1854
POPULATION 1855 Three hundred & twenty five thousand persons
IMPORTS 1855. £10,222,294 EXPORTS 1855 £12,706,953 Showing a balance of exports over imports of £2,484,559[?]
WOOL SALES Weekly public Wool Sales are now fully established. The mode of Sale was to dispose of the whole flock inclusive of the lambs wool, which is paid for at the price of fleece, the pieces taken at two thirds and the locks at half the price of the fleece.
REVENUE The gross revenue amounts to £2,744,594.
1856 The revenue was estimated at £2,738,600.
1856 The expenditure estimated at 2,792,152.

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VICTORIA
We have Melbourne papers to the 11th instant.
From the Age :-
On Wednesday evening (20th June), the largest nugget yet discovered, was found at Ballarat, at a depth of 190 feet. About half-past seven o'clock p.m. the men at work in the Red Hill Gold Mining Company's claim on the Bakery Hill Lead close to where it crosses the Black Hill road, came upon the "monster". After half an hour's hard work they succeeded in getting it to the surface, when the joyful intelligence was immediately communicated to all the shareholders who were in reach. The weight of it is about 180 lbs. When first weighed it proved to be 195 lbs 11ozs 10dwt., but there was then clay in the interstices and adhering to the surface of it. After it had been cleaned, there was no means of ascertaining its exact weight, but the owners estimated it as above. This wonderful nugget is almost twenty inches long, by six or seven broad, and nearly as much deep. It had a narrow escape from being two nuggets instead of one, for at a point one third from the end, its continuity is only maintained by a narrow neck which is so slight that the men were afraid to handle their prize much, lest they break it in two. In shape, it has a grotesque resemblance to a skeleton horse's head and shoulders, the narrow part we have mentioned representing the neck. Or it looks like a continent with a peninsular attached to it by a narrow isthmus. I bears upon its side the marks of several blows of the pick.

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