Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide reads: Discovery by ''overlanding'' Chinese of the rich canteen load near Ararat led to a great rush to that field (1857). An anti-Chinese riot followed. Slide shows route that the Chinese would have walked. . . . Whence overlanded into Victoria. Markings: 25. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide reads on right: During the gold rush for many years afterwards, some government proclamations were issued in Chinese as well as in English. View of proclamation on left. (View of the original Dixon Gallery, Public Library of NSW) Markings: 24. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Here is part of the front page of an English-Chinese news paper published in Ballarat in 1857. Markings: 23. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: This cartoon from Melbourne Punch (April, 1857) is entitled ''A Flood of Celestial Light pouring in upon the Diggings''. Slide shows a large group of Chinese travelling to their destination, most of them are on foot. Some onlookers. Markings: 22. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: The practical failure of the Act of 1856, and the fresh outburst of anti-Chinese feeling in the Buckland riots of 1857, led to Victorian Government to take further action in the latter year. (1) A residence fee was imposed on all Chinese in the colony (one pound per month - ultimately reduced, after Chinese protests, to four pound per year). (2) The co-operation of South Australia was sought, and , in 1857, the government of that colony passed a restriction act similar to the Victorian Act of 1855. Markings: 21. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Has royal emblem. Anno Vicesimo Primo. Victoriae Reginae. No 3. An Act to make provision for levying a charge on Chinese arriving in South Australia. [Assented to, 19th November, 1857.] Be it enacted by his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief of South Preamble, Australia, by and with the advice of. . . . Markings: 20. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Royal emblem, Lion and Unicorn. Victoria, Victoria Regine No. XLI An Act to regulate the residence of the Chinese Population in Victoria. (24th November, 1857. Whereas it is expedient to regulate and control the residence (the rest of document is not shown) Markings: 19. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Subsequent Anti - Chinese Legislation In Australia Markings: 18hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields, diggers & mining. the chinese on the gold fields. slide: subsequent anti - chinese legislation in australia

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: In a Ballarat Mine C. 1867. Only a few were employed in gold mines, and they usually did only surface work, Why? Picture; depicts miners pushing a loaded trolley, many of them have a shovel in hand. Markings: 17 (smudged number). Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Shows 3 Chinese mining for gold. (2) The Chinese were successful diggers, and this evoked jealousy . . . Markings: 16. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Seventeen page Heritage Place Report on the Former California Gully Police Station at 15 Thorpe Street, California Gully. It is the former police station and quarters, former timber stables and timber cottage residence demolished and horse paddock on separate title. Report includes a Statement of Significance, Place History (History of the Area), Policing California Gully Goldfields, History of the Buildings, Chronology of Ownership, Rate Books 1858, - 1867 - 1868, 1895 Borough of Eaglehawk Rates, 1922 Voters Roll, 1952 & 1962 Sands & McDougall Directory Thorpe St California Gully, Comparable Examples, Secondary Sources, Description Conservation Policy Guidelines (Specific), Physical Conditions, Physical Description 1, Map of Early Photo Location, Bendigo Parish Plan circa 1870, Certificate of Title 1950 & 1960. Pge 14 has plans, maps and an aerial photo of 15 Thorpe Street. Page 15 has an aerial photo of 15 Thorpe Street, California Gully with Allotment Size. Page 16 & 17 has photos.heritage, heritage report - former police station and quarters - california gully, city of greater bendigo, wilson & ass, butler, amanda jean, johnson reef shafts no 1 & 2, rose of denmark, princess dagmar, bendigo amalgamated goldfields company, captain frederick standish, royal irish constabulary, e thorpe, campbell, taylor, watson, brown, hosken, mckowne, mcqualter, parker, hicks, eaglehawk municipal council, victorian police force, d bannear, historic mining sites in the sandhurst eaglehawk and raywood mining divisions, department of conservation and natural resources, joshua thorpe, thorpe & co, johnson & co, william thorn, michael thomas, james murdock, edward c brown, francis youlden, gold escort, water police, mounted police, city police (melbourne), geelong police, gold fields police, rural bench constabulary, the people's force, robert haldane, n wild, streets of the borough of eaglehawk, police registration act, william henry mitchell, camp hotel, j o c nieman, j m catarach, g w hosken, margaret hosken nee mckown, majorie alice mcqualter, kellie anne mcqualter, adam joseph doolan, mr hicks, sands & mcdougall, hill george, meeking howard, mcewan frank a, jinks stanley, mccaig mrs eleanor, gordon john l, mcqualter mrs adeline, maher william l, raynor robert, flack john p, whitehead miss a, sang george t, linddsay john p, dyer henry, jackman george a, tibbetts mrs s a, hosken mrs margaret winifred nee mckowne, chaplin frank w, wilson c e, wright george, miller g a, sheyhill basil hugh, marshall r, miles j h, parker w b, barkla w g, nicholls les, cartledge clifford william, cole charles basil, farmers citizens trustees co, bev hanson

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Shows number of Chinese in Victoria from 1851 to 1947. After 1861 numbers of Chinese gradually decreased. Markings: 15. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Shows stage coach overloaded with people and their belongings. Wording: This photograph shows a diggings party on a Cobb & Co. coach near Newstead c. 1870. Note European dress. Markings: 14. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Chinese quarter, Ballarat, 1868. In the 1860s and 1870s many Chinese in Victoria persisted at gold digging. Slide shows township and Chinese along the creek looking for gold. Markings: 13. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Many Chinese took up other occupations; some became successful market gardeners, fishermen, laundrymen, cooks, and sellers of tea and sugar (till near the end of the 19th century, both these commodities came from China). In Melbourne, they made fine cabinet makers; the first successful tobacco growers in Victoria were Chinese in the Ovens Valley. Markings: 12. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: The Chinese quarter in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, dates from the gold era. Here is a scene in Little Bourke Street c1880. Shows a footbridge over creek many shoppers male and female including Chinese out shopping. Includes buildings and a large carriage in background. Markings: 11. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Map of New South Wales. Chinese immigration by sea - N.S.W. 1856 - 896, 1857 - 327, 1858 - 12,096. Total number of Chinese in N.S.W. 1861 - 21,000. Riots of Lambing Flat, 1861. Act of 1861 the working out of alluvial fields solved the problem in N.S.W. Faced with a similar problem to that of Victoria, New South Wales passed, in 1861, a Chinese Immigration Restriction Act (like the Victorian Act of 1855). Markings: 10 994:LIF I. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Chinese fishermen. Many Chinese fishermen were working at St. Kilda in the early 1860s Picture depicts Chinese fishermen hauling in the net. Markings: 4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: View of a Chinese market garden including buildings and gardeners . Titled: A Chinese marker garden c.1865. Markings: 8. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: But anti-Chinese agitation flared up again in 1870's - this time on the newly-discovered Queensland goldfields . . . Map on left is of Queensland: Palmer Goldfield, Hodgkinson gold field. In 1877, there were 17,000 Chinese on the Palmer field compared with 1,400 whites. Markings: 7. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Aborigines landing their boat at the base of a cliff, some are in loin cloth, some pants, one pants and shirt (white). Markings: 6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide:Chinese in North Queensland . . . . And in 1877 the Queensland government passed a restriction act. Chinese on the long journey to their destination, a camp site on the right, on the left they take shelter under a tree. Markings: 5, blue ink smuge on left of slide in tree. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: From 1867 to 1877 there were no restrictions on Asiatic immigration in any Australian colony. The Chinese gradually merged into the community, enjoying a high reputation as industrious and law-abiding citizens. Markings: 4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. Many diggers not only moved from field to field, but alternated between gold digging and other occupations. Slide; THE STATE OF VICTORIA - - - Gold digging and other sorts of labour have arrived at a sort of equilibrium; and streams of people are now flowing from the one occupation to the others, and visa versa. A few weeks ill luck at Bendigo disgust a man with his auriferous well sinking and he goes into some sort of service. A dispute with his master chiming in with some current takes of mining success sends him back to the diggings again; and so the stream flows backwards and forwards keeping - - - the wages of all kinds of labour at an equilibrium - - - (M.M.H., August 19, 1853) Markings: 46 994:LIF I. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

The hospital was first mooted in 1853. The first site chosen was "Hospital Hill" between Rowan and Mackenzie Streets and behind the present Lister House School of Nursing. The first building was a primitive affair of slab and weatherboard daubed with clay somewhere near the middle of the present Short St - which at the time extended to the brow of the hill behind the Sacred Heart Cathedral site. The new building was greatly need to serve the hundreds of diggers then active on the field. Messrs Vahland and Gezchmann, Architects, designed a new building of stone and brick, the cenre portion of the hospital to hold 100 beds. This centre portion cost 12,000 pounds and was erected in three months. Patients were transferred from the old site on Hospital Hill to the new building in December 1858.Black and White photo negative of the front of the hospital; Notes on the History of "The Bendigo Gold District Hospital"; letters re classification by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria).history, national trust bendigo collection, bendigo, bendigo base hospital, bnedigo hospital, bnedigo gold district hospital

Diggers & Mining. The gold licence. The Government Camp.. Slide reads: The licence was obtained from the headquarters of a Goldfields Commissioner. Goldfields Commissioners were appointed to the principal diggings to uphold law and order on the field, to settle disputes between diggers and to issue licences. Markings:5 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

A book titled 'Newspaper Cuttings' in gold leaf with black leather binding and corners on blue cloth covered cardboard cover. Stiff paper pages inside numbered top right -hand corners 1-90 in printed black ink. Poor condition overall. Pages 37 - 44 missing. Page 45-46 pertaining to Violet Jolley separately bagged. Entries mostly pertain to Mr Howard Jolley , an aviation field inspector of the Life Insurance Company of Australia. First entry page 16 -17 contains photographs and newspaper cuttings relating to an air crash on Bendigo racecourse in May 1921. Jolley was involved in numerous air-crashes for the next ten years. Photographs and newspaper cuttings related to these, along with dinner invitations, etc, are pasted into the book. Entry's into the book finish shortly before his death as a result of an air crash in 1931.Enclosed in pocket: copies of newspaper articles relating to the death of Howard Jolley in aircraft accident; donation form from Janice van der Spek, copy of advertisement Howard Jolley, touring Australia on life insurance business.bendigo, history, aviation 1920s.

Diggers & Mining. Getting the Gold. Slide: In 1860, the Victorian Government began the construction of Reservoirs on some important gold fields. In that year, 29 small reservoirs were built (see next map); thereafter, more were constructed (there were 38 of them in 1868). These reservoirs supplied water to small gold fields towns, and to the gold mines in and near them. But pipes were laid to stand-pipes on nearby diggings (remember that by this time the number of independent diggers was declining rapidly) Markings: 71 994.LIF:4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields