TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE GOLDFIELDS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



Summary of the gold discoveries The Upper Yarra Anderson's Greek, 

 Buninyong, dunes, Golden Point, Ballaarat, Mount Alexander, Forest 

 Creek, Bendigo, Heathcote, Mount Korong, Avoca, The Ovens district, 

 Omeo The licence fee Contemporary legislation and regulation Diffi- 

 culties of collection W. H. Wright, Chief Commissioner of Goldfields 

 Sly grog-selling prosecution Discontent of miners Meeting of 2,000 

 miners at Bendigo Deputation to Mr. Latrobe Unsatisfactory results 

 Police and military concentrated on field Defiant attitude of miners 

 Government practically capitulates The Goldfields Management Act of 

 1853 Sir Charles Hotham visits the goldfields Well received Number 

 and character of the mining population of 1834 Presage of the coming 

 storm Pages 1-22 



CHAPTER II. 



THE REVOLT OP THE DIGGERS. 



Ballaarat in 1854 Miners and officials The Eureka Hotel A venal 

 magistrate Murder of Scobie Mob burn the hotel Three of the crowd 

 arrested, tried, convicted and sent to gaol The diggers formally demand 

 their release Hotham refuses Formation of the Ballaarat Reform 

 League Its leading members Mass meetings Despatch of troops from 

 Melbourne Some of them intercepted and assaulted Meeting of 29th 

 November Resolution to burn licences Foolish order by Governor for 

 a revival of licence hunting Diggers' organisation and drill The Eureka 

 stockade Details of the storming The dead, wounded and prisoners 

 Allegations of brutality against the police Colonel Vern's mock-heroics 

 Escape of Peter Lalor Alarm in Melbourne Stormy meetings to 

 denounce the Government Hotham's preparations New Radical Consti- 

 tution proposed Eureka prisoners sent to Melbourne for trial All 

 eventually acquitted amidst much popular applause . Pages 23-51 



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