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VICTORIA

Gold Mining commenced in Victoria in September 1851 and during this month, there had [?] from the first of the Gold fields at Balarat [Ballarat] one hundred & twenty one ounces of gold.
In the month of October there were seven thousand diggers at Balarat [Ballarat]
On the 1st of April 1852 there were fifty thousand people assembled at Mount Alexander who were principally engaged in gold digging this field was then considered the richest gold field hitherto known in the world - The repute of these gold fields caused an extrordinary [extraordinary] influx of people from the adjacent Colonies Computed to have averaged during the period of the early discovery of gold of from 6000 to 8,000 persons per month.
On the 1st of April 1852 the population of Victoria was Computed to be one hundred & fifteen thousand persons.
GOLD EXPORTED FORM VICTORIA FROM AUGUST 1851 TO MARCH 1852

1851

August                                          18.                                 September                                    nil
October                                    1548.
November                                3141.
December                          140. 128.

1852

January                               160.472.
February                              153.092.
March                                  105.772.
 
EXPORTED AS UNDER UP TO 1st APRIL 1852.

To   London                         429.954 OUNCES OF GOLD
       Hamburgh [Hamburg]      3.416        "          "       "
       Sydney                        122.583         "          "       "
       Hobart Town                    1.483         "          "       "
       Adelaide                          6.030         "          "       "

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