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A miner's wife is unfaithful with a mining-engine driver who desires her husband's gold. The husband's murder and the suspicious of her step-son reveal their double iniquity ... Set on the diggings. (PB)
Patchwork tale incorporating memories of Australia (Melbourne and Ballarat) in 1853 - domestic exchanges; and of a band of travelling actors near Liverpool (UK) in December 1847 - their show and a charitable deed. Told in the Kensington Arms near Liverpool on Christmas Eve, 1865. (PB)
Dick discovers about £500 of gold while fossicking on the Bendigo diggings just after splitting with his mates Tom and Harry. Determined not to drink it all away he plants the nugget, loses it, eventually finds it again, takes a drink to celebrate and weeks later turns out to be blind, paralysed and a cripple. (PB)
A young clerk in the Comptroller-General's office in Hobart-Town in the very early convict days of Van Diemen's Land is commissioned to lead an explorer's expedition (of 3) to Port Esperance. The light-hearted party meet a hermit living on the banks of the Huon, later the site of Franklin, and hear his tale of his escape from Norfolk Island and Hell's Gates ... Historical reminiscence mixed with boyish adventure. Warm. (PB)
Tale of a miner's widow and the pure love a fellow miner has for her and her children. Set on Growler's Flat diggings. Sentimental but has some genuine power to move. (PB)
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Includes the first instalment of Sylvanus Cobb Jnr's 'The Plot for a Life : Or, The Pilot and the Contrabandist. A Story of Ship and Shore', pp. 255-261.
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Includes thirteenth instalment of A Melbournite of '38's 'The Early History of Victoria. Being Reminiscences of Bygone Days', pp. 251-255.