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DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN AUSTRALIA.

 
may bid a dieu to Californian migration from these shores, and that the Government will adopt without delay such measures as shall tend further to develope [develop] the riches of this Colony, and enable the people to reap the golden harvest which now appears to invite attention -
I remain Gentlemen
Your obedient Servant
Signed E. M. Rudder -

Sydney April 2nd 1851 -

During the time Mr Hargraves was prosecuting his researches to a successful termination Mr Rudder was lecturing at the School of Arts in Sydney, on the nature of the Californian gold districts and the similarity of the geological formation of parts in this Colony to that of the Northern Elderardo from which he argued that sooner or later gold would be found in abundance in the bowels of Australian earth -

 

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