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The Eureka Stockade

Chapter 2 No.2

Word Count: 835    |    Released on: 29/11/2017

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ch of the odium of the mining community against re

from it, and parallel with the range, was some ninety feet deep, and was worked by day only, by three men: a fourth man would now and then bring a set of trimmed slabs from the first hole aforesaid, where he was the principal 'chips.' There was a

ursed in the colonial style. The excitement was awful. Commissioner Rede was fetched to settle the dispute. An absurd and unjust regulation was then the law; no party was allowed to have an interest

t: a mob would soon collect round the disputed claim; and for 'fair play,' it required the wisdom of Solomo

ds; which ordinances, left to the discretion-that is, the caprice; and to the good sense-that is, the motto, 'odi profanum vulgus et arceo;' and to the best judgment-that is the proverbial incapability of all aristocractical red-tape, HOW TO RULE US VAGABONDS. Both those reasons,

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orian Board

ia Felix-inquire from the natives, reported to b

the royal projecting the G

HIMAWAY, Esquire, of Toorak, see address, her brother-in-law, POLLIPUSS, WATERLOOBOLTER, tenth son of the venerable Preb

it must not be omitted that he is a Piccadilly young sprat, and so at

ur hand for the next waltz? surely after a r

ered "dear," was th

no further," to the flood of tears from forlorn Smartdeuce, when h

855. Said members had already settled at that time 201 disputes, and given their judgement, involving some half a million sterling altogether, for all what they knew, and yet not one miner rose one finger against them, when they imperatively desired to know whether they had done their duty and still possessed the conf

e on record; and, from the following 'Joe' chapter must beg

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