A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53

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Ellen Clacy. A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53

A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53

Table of Contents

Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Chapter II. THE VOYAGE OUT

Chapter III. STAY IN MELBOURNE

Chapter IV. CAMPING UP—MELBOURNE TO THE BLACK FOREST

Chapter V. CAMPING UP—BLACK FOREST TO EAGLE HAWK GULLY

Chapter VI. THE DIGGINGS

Chapter VII. EAGLE HAWK GULLY

Chapter VIII. AN ADVENTURE

Chapter IX. HARRIETTE WALTERS

Chapter X. IRONBARK GULLY

Chapter XI. FOREST CREEK

Chapter XII. RETURN TO MELBOURNE

Chapter XIII. BALLARAT

Chapter XIV. NEW SOUTH WALES

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Chapter XVI. MELBOURNE AGAIN

Chapter XVII. HOMEWARD BOUND

Chapter XVIII. CONCLUSION

APPENDIX. WHO SHOULD EMIGRATE?

THE END

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Ellen Clacy

Published by Good Press, 2021

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I shall not attempt an elaborate description of the town of Melbourne, or its neighbouring villages. A subject so often and well discussed might almost be omitted altogether. The town is very well laid out; the streets (which are all straight, running parallel with and across one another) are very wide, but are incomplete, not lighted, and many are unpaved. Owing to the want of lamps, few, except when full moon, dare stir out after dark. Some of the shops are very fair; but the goods all partake too largely of the flash order, for the purpose of suiting the tastes of successful diggers, their wives and families; it is ludicrous to see them in the shops—men who, before the gold-mines were discovered, toiled hard for their daily bread, taking off half-a-dozen thick gold rings from their fingers, and trying to pull on to their rough, well-hardened hands the best white kids, to be worn at some wedding party; whilst the wife, proud of the novel ornament, descants on the folly of hiding them beneath such useless articles as gloves.

The country round is very pretty, particularly Richmond and Collingwood; the latter will, I expect, soon become part of Melbourne itself. It is situated at the fashionable—that is, east—end of Melbourne, and the buildings of the city and this suburban village are making rapid strides towards each other. Of Richmond, I may remark that it does possess a "Star and Garter," though a very different affair to its namesake at the antipodes, being only a small public-house. On the shores of the bay, at nice driving distances, are Brighton and St. Kilda. Two or three fall-to-pieces bathing-machines are at present the only stock in trade of these watering-places; still, should some would-be fashionables among my readers desire to emigrate, it may gratify them to learn that they need not forego the pleasure of visiting Brighton in the season.

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