Handwritten carbon copy of suggested wording for signs at Victoria Hill. Mentions mines and open cuts and amounts of gold, and geological features. Notes prepared by Albert Richardson.document, gold, victoria hill, victoria hill, suggested wording of signs for victoria hill, the north old chum mine, ballerstedt's first open cut, lansell's big 180, crushing battery, the victoria quartz, coloured rock formations, great central victoria, wittscheibe's 'jewellers shop', luffsman & sterry's claim, the adventure

BHS CollectionFive page index of applications for mining leases taken out in Sandhurst, 1859-1862. Attached are print-outs of Government Gazette pages, showing entries that relate to applications for mining leases during the period 1858-1862. Slip of paper attached to front page reads: Applications for Mining Leases in the Mining District of Sandhurst 1859-1862, (Index prepared by staff at the Bendigo Goldfields Library) Note: no leases listed for Sandhurst from 1.1.1859-11.7.1859. Victorian Government Gazette, October 10, 1862, Issue 121, p 1954. Listed in index for 1862, but no leases found on that page. Document from the Phyllis Toy Collection.Government Gazette entries are described in pencil on side of Gazette page, example: Vic Govt Gazette, 13/9/1859 Issue 146, p 1936.adventure gold mine, mine leases 1858-1862, sandhurst, goldmining

No front or spine cover. Title and introduction pages missing. Back cover - evidence of leather bound spine. Green cloth-covered cardboard cover. two hundred illustrations after drawings by Gustave Dore, Berard, Lancelot, Jules Noel, and other eminent artists and six finely engraved maps, fully coloured.non-fictionTravel booktravel, books, book, illustrations

A volume of 221 pages featuring text and images.A story of the great days of riverboats on Australia's inland rivers written from personal recollections of the author. He spent most of his working life on the rivers. William Drage worked as deckhand, barge hand, mate, and master. Life on the rivers was full of drama and variety, strange characters and unexpected adventures. William Drage's story of the boats he served and the men he knew is a lively description of a vanished world: a nostalgic glimpse into a way of life that was uniquely Australian and disappeared forever.murray river, murray river trade, murray riverboats